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...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...
...Under the program, suppliers can sell their Wal-Mart invoices to the retailer’s partner banks, including Wells Fargo & Co. and Citigroup Inc., according to the letter, at interest rates based partly on Wal-Mart...
...Mr Ackman’s struggles with Target, the stylish discount US retailer and Wal-Mart competitor, started in 2007 with an effort to convince Target to sell its credit card business....
...Pershing Square took a significant stake in Target two years ago, and initially pushed the company to sell off its credit card portfolio and to put its store leases into a real estate management trust....
...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....
...The end of a sort of “good-old boy” culture at Wal-Mart? MR SCOTT: I think it was inevitable. If you go through the S curve that people talk about. The founder creates this idea....
...However, in recent decades, so-called private labels or store brands – brands owned by retail giants such as Wal-Mart, Tesco, Carrefour and Aldi – have made huge inroads, especially in western Europe and...
...to real estate....
...Financial stocks led the Nikkei’s fall as a real-estate investment trust and an insurer failed....
...Outside the main real estate investment trust sector, there are scores of property investment trusts, many of which own good properties but again trade at big discounts to net asset value....
...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....
...KK: I am. FT: Oil? KK: Neutral. FT: US dollar? KK: I don’t want to comment on such a market. FT: London real estate? KK: I will not… FT: The environment? KK: I think its improving now....
...roads around the site as driving a giant truck to collect goods for a Wal-Mart store....
...Add in Trust-Mart’s annual sales to Wal-Mart’s Chinese business, and the two outfits combined still make less than 1 per cent of group revenue....
...I have a real love of food and wine. That’s much more interesting than sitting in a boring boardroom.”...
...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....
...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...
...Main Streets Across the World 2006, an annual survey produced by real-estate consultancy firm Cushman & Wakefield....
...“I hate estate agents,” begins one message....
...“Wal-Mart may be cheaper by a few pennies,” says Sigismundo Isidro, a retiree picking up a few groceries at the Publix store. “But I don’t buy so much when I shop....
...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....
...Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer delivered a weaker than expected first quarter operating profit in the spring and warned on profits....
...To provide financial support for its expansion plans, CapitaLand is considering spinning off its Chinese retail and commercial assets into a real estate investment trust, following the successful launch...
...the strategy was sustainable as a long term business model for the company....
...The presence of the real estate investment trusts Kimco and Vornado - which also owns a 4.3 per cent stake in Sears, Roebuck - suggests the buyer could be keen to engineer a Kmart-style restructuring by...
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