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...Fiona Golfar beachwoodbakery.com Beppe e i Suoi Formaggi, Rome According to food writer Rachel Roddy, this cosy store in the Ghetto district is the city’s foremost deli....
...We are doing record business. We have the highest levels of enthusiasm, so the head of Walmart, who I know, who’s a very nice guy, was making a political statement....
...Retailers Wal-Mart, Ross Stores and Gap report quarterly earnings....
...Wal-Mart Stores (Retail) 48. Home Depot (Consumer Goods) 49. Yahoo! (Technology) 50. Morgan Stanley (Finance) 51. Discovery Communications (Media) 52. Colgate-Palmolive (Consumer Goods) 53....
...lobbying India’s Cabinet approved a retired judge to probe claims that Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
...South Africa appeal court dismisses case against Wal-Mart’s Massmart deal Regulators’ approval of Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
...http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/115447dc-92c9-11e1-b6e2-00144feab49a.html WalMart workers freed after mislabeling charges Authorities in Chongqing, China, released two Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employees jailed...
...Wal-Mart may open India retail stores Wal-Mart and Carrefour may gain access to the retail market of the world’s second most-populous country after an Indian government panel was said to have recommended...
...Many western banks have been frustrated by the lack of a clear rule of law in Indonesia and others have avoided doing business with many of the most connected families in Indonesia for fear that those same...
...Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, no longer reports monthly sales numbers. JC Penney, the mainstream department store, also raised its earnings guidance after sales fell less heavily that expected....
...Natives of Zhejiang on the east coast like “toilet roll as rough as sandpaper”, the former head of Wal-Mart China liked to observe, a penchant thankfully absent elsewhere....
...But when the first wave of Russian expansion is over, Tesco might decide to catch the second as it did in China, entering the world’s most populous country nearly a decade after Wal-Mart and Carrefour had...
...In this category, funds I co-manage own Berkshire Hathaway, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Wal-Mart, but the list of the best beaten-up blue chips today would also include Altria, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson...
...The manner befits his role as heir to the Wal-Mart myth of the company leader as everyman in the tradition of Sam Walton, the resolutely down-to-earth founder who opened the first store in 1962 and who died...
...Yet to judge by much of blue-collar Sam’s Club America (named after Wal-Mart’s discount cards), there are other, more distracting, things to worry about....
...Yet in a poor east African country riven by inequalities of income and education, as well as deep-seated ethnic tensions, Nakumatt is more than a supermarket....
...The retailer, which operates over 1,100 bookshops in the US, Australasia and Singapore, has been struggling to reposition itself in the face of low-cost competition from rivals including Wal-Mart and Amazon.com...
...Wal-Mart’s most vociferous critics say it is doing nothing more than “greenwashing” a fundamentally unsustainable business model....
...Li & Fung, a big supplier to Wal-Mart stores in the US, jumped by 6.5 per cent to HK$28.00. Commodity prices lifted Australian shares. The S&P/ASX 200 gained 1.3 per cent to 5,608.10....
...Li & Fung, a big supplier to Wal-Mart stores in the US, fell by 7.2 per cent to HK$27. Singapore shares also suffered, ending a shortened trading session 3.5 per cent lower at 2,932.05....
...What about Sonae of Brazil (a 140-strong chain bought by arch-rival Wal-Mart)?...
...Wal-Mart and India’s biggest groups such as Reliance, Bharti, Tata and Aditya Birla are all piling into the fast-growing sector....
...Wal-Mart have wiped out unions and small businessmen in the neighbourhoods they have established stores....
...The two questions for companies ranging from Wal-Mart to Apple, Procter & Gamble and Gap, as well as the advertising wizards on New York’s Madison Avenue, are why and how....
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