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...Wal-Mart’s annual meeting is at noon UK time....
...(Financial Times) Wal-Mart unlikely to bid (Bloomberg) Online ad company AppNexus became one of only a handful of NY start-ups to crack a valuation over $1bn after a new round of investment....
...Tesco is also the third-largest supermarket chain in the world, behind US giant Wal-Mart and French supermarket group Carrefour....
...Such is the breadth of family businesses around the world that giants such as Fiat, Wal-Mart and Michelin can be bracketed alongside the small neighbourhood bakery or cycle repair shop....
...At Wal-Mart, for instance, more than 40 per cent of the online orders on the retailer’s website are sent for pick-up at a local store, as customers seek to avoid the costs and timing uncertainties of home...
...Wal-Mart also gained despite being downgraded by Citi from “buy” to “hold” over worries about a bill that will make it easier for workers to join unions. Its shares picked up 2,4 per cent to $48.67....
...Wal-Mart looks to Hispanic market 8. Billionaire Merckle commits suicide 9. Stanford vanishes as probe widens 10. Hollywood braced for budget cuts Back to the top World 1....
...Not a big deal on the face of it, but for the French group – the world’s second-biggest retailer after Wal-Mart of the US – the importance of its home market cannot be underestimated....
...Large companies, including household names such as Wal-Mart and General Electric, Ford and Coca-Cola, HSBC and News Corporation, made pledges to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and lessen their environmental...
...But on Wednesday Clinton was playing compere for a distinguished panel that included Gore, along with two heads of state, the heads of the World Bank and Wal-Mart and South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu...
...But on Wednesday Clinton was playing compere for a distinguished panel that included Gore along with two heads of state, the heads of the World Bank and Wal-Mart, and South Africa’s archbishop Desmond Tutu...
...Shares in Wal-Mart fell 2.3 per cent to $46.18 and Target fell 2.8 per cent to $60.47....
...They joined the likes of Jeff Immelt of General Electric and Lee Scott of Wal-Mart in leading their companies to reduce their “environmental footprint” through means such as cutting energy use....
...GE, Wal-Mart and Dupont all trumpet their green credentials....
...To provide for them, Saleh Al-Rajhi has the second-largest shareholding in the family’s Al-Rajhi Bank and, over the past year, the group’s share price has shot up by 89 per cent....
...Before he was unceremoniously unseated, Mr Bernard masterminded Carrefour’s heady international expansion, turning the French group into the world’s second largest retailer behind Wal-Mart of the US....
...When Wal-Mart reduced their packaging 5%, they made $3.4 million, so they’re just announcing a new healthcare plan and I was talking to Lee Scott today, and he told me about another company where the CEO...
...Low prices continue to lure millions of Americans to Wal-Mart, despite the opprobrium the store chain’s employment and sourcing policies provoke in ethical campaigners....
...Through such additional considerations, investors such as Buffett/Fischer/Greenblatt, et. al. seem to have dramatically improved upon Mr. Grahams original concept. Thank you....
...Of the many fallers, ailing carmaker General Motors suffered the most, losing 4.1 per cent to $20.96 as last week’s rally faded into the memory, while retailer Wal-Mart fell 1.8 per cent to $45.74 on fears...
...Panic buying seized Houston on Tuesday, with housewives filling trolleys with cases of bottled water at supermarkets such as Wal-Mart and Target....
...THE WAL-MART EFFECT: How an Out-of-Town Superstore Became a Superpower by Charles Fishman Allen Lane ₤12.99, 304 pages A brave attempt to provide a balanced account of the retail giant....
...The sub-cabinet neoconservative civilian hierarchy at the Pentagon (Wolfowitz, Feith, Cambone et al) has much to answer for....
...Places like Wal-Mart buy things cheaply. and they have to sell them to us. That’s sort of the bottom line of the relationship....
...Wal-Mart's pyramid scheming Wal-Mart's expedition to Mexico lives on....
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