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...climate deal exit) Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company (left after Paris climate deal exit) Rich Lesser, President and CEO, Boston Consulting Group Doug McMillon, President and CEO, Wal-Mart...
...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....
...Wal-mart is slowing its opening of new stores in China and Brazil after admitting it had made mistakes and let profitability slip in its haste to expand....
...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...
...Wal-Mart Stores is expected to compete in an auction against South Korea’s Lotte Shopping and private equity fund Carlyle Group to buy Indonesian retailer Matahari’s hypermarket busines, Reuters reports....
...But as the economic climate deteriorated in late 2007, Target’s comparable sales growth fell below those of Wal-Mart, as customers sought out Wal-Mart’s low-cost basics, and shifted their spending away from...
...The Target stock has outperformed Wal-Mart over a 10 year period, a 5 year period, and in 2009 to date(1)....
...Both companies’ larger rivals, Tesco and Wal-Mart-owned Asda, are also responding to recession with discounting campaigns and piecemeal plans for more jobs and store openings....
...The company’s cheeses, which will soon include English cheddar, are being sold in supermarkets along the country’s east coast, including branches of Tesco and Wal-Mart....
...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....
...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...
...The Hemet store has attracted intense interest from Tesco’s competitors including a group of five note-taking visitors from Wal-Mart, which operates a Supercenter with groceries less than two miles away....
...“We need this foreign presence,” said de Castro, pointing out that Italy does not have a Wal-Mart, Carrefour or Tesco to promote its brands abroad....
...The Wal-Mart-owned Asda has at long last emerged from its oenological stasis with a whoosh of personality-driven wines called Asda Extra Special, each with a back label featuring background and serving suggestions...
...Today, the retailer is halfway through a three-year recovery programme under Justin King who once worked at Asda – the UK arm of Wal-Mart....
...Home Depot, the second largest US retailer, has also been looking for possible partners in China, while Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, has been steadily expanding its presence there....
...They suggest that the packaging of many consumer electronics products lacks sophistication and is “unlikely to be acceptable to Wal-Mart”....
...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....
...Albertson’s latest quarterly results, announced yesterday, reflected the continuing pressures on the retailer and other conventional supermarkets in the US from Wal-Mart and other discounters....
...Big retailers (Wal-Mart) and consumer product manufacturers (Nike, Toys R Us) seem to us to be moving towards an ever greater reliance on Chinese labour - for finishing, packaging, labelling, sorting and...
...They used to work in the semi-demolished store on the Long Beach seafront that I saw on Monday. Wal-Mart is still paying their wages and has promised them new jobs in another nearby store....
...The rapid encroachment of large “box stores” like Wal-Mart has put such stores on the defensive by undercutting them on staples such as toiletries, personal care and other basic household items....
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