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...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...Wal-Mart, Apple, Google – they’ve all fallen foul of Chinese authorities at some point, and learnt the lesson that you either capitulate or give up your China ambitions....
...Companies have long juggled multigenerational workforces. Retailer Wal-Mart, for example, employs older staff in its shops....
...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...
...Mike Duke, who took over as chief executive three weeks ago, said the fourth quarter and full-year results showed that Wal-Mart had gained “momentum” during the year in all of its markets, despite the tough...
...Wal-Mart’s shares have gained almost 30 per cent over the same period....
...“They were seen as something cheap you might buy on the bottom shelf of Wal-Mart, and architects looked down at the idea.”...
...The writer is honorary professor of marketing metrics at Cass Business School THE CONSULTANT Jason Gordon The simple answer is that retailers have no real choice this year....
...FINANCIAL TIMES: Wal-Mart has been seeking to improve the performance of its US supercenters and discount stores. How is that going?...
...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 while companies are having a tough time making money in the US and western Europe, doing business in emerging markets has been getting easier....
...to real estate....
...Wal-Mart, meanwhile, is set to save $3.4bn a year by reducing its packaging by 5 per cent....
...Wal-Mart-owned Asda plans to sell its industrial development arm Gazeley, which could fetch as much as £400m ($796m)....
...Wal-Mart’s most vociferous critics say it is doing nothing more than “greenwashing” a fundamentally unsustainable business model....
...Some of the most important pioneering work in sustainability is happening in supply chains where leaders such as Hewlett-Packard (No. 21), Wal-Mart (No. 6), and Tesco (No. 8) are taking a mega-scale view...
...FT: When you first excluded Wal-Mart, they didn’t initially respond. Are you starting to get quicker reactions from companies now?...
...But they also act as lightning-rods for broader hostility towards big business and globalisation. Tesco and Wal-Mart are under fire because they are under people’s noses. So it is with private equity....
...Take retail groups such as Wal-Mart and Tesco. They are attacked for alleged specifics, such as maltreatment of the workforce or suppression of competition....
...FT: Which is what Wal-Mart are doing. They have the front end of that. JLD: Which is what all international food retailers are looking for. All of us are working, I would say, on a similar scheme....
...If women were doing the same work as men for less money, as the suit alleges, could not this notoriously tight-fisted company obtain vast savings by promoting more women into managerial positions?...
...roads around the site as driving a giant truck to collect goods for a Wal-Mart store....
...Then she was almost universally opposed by business lobbies. This time round large corporations, such as Wal-Mart, have signed up to reform....
...Wal-Mart’s PR company Edelman would have done well to note such comments before agreeing to sponsor a blog called Wal-Marting across America, written by a couple who were camping in store car parks....
...Great companies are aspiring to address the big issues such as environment–note Wal-Mart’s leadership in pushing for fluorescent light bulbs as an example....
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