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...A 0.6 per cent decline in sales is forecast although Wal-Mart’s revenues from abroad and from its Sam’s Club stores are likely to support profit, according to a Reuters poll....
...Wal-mart suit: The second largest U.S. public pension fund said on Thursday it had sued current and former executives and board members at Wal-Mart Stores Inc, alleging bribery and a cover-up in the company...
...A gender discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart stores has been affirmed as a class action case by a federal appeals court, creating one of the largest such suits in history, the WSJ reports....
...Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, is dipping its toes into online grocery sales, with the expansion of a home shipping service for products including Perrier water and free-trade coffee at Sam’s Club, its...
...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....
...Wal-Mart makes a high-profile target for local groups, which argue that the US chain has a history of wiping out small high street stores....
...Li & Fung, one of Wal-Mart Stores’ biggest suppliers, sagged 6.9 per cent to HK$28.85....
...Wal-Mart’s US floorspace after 45 years in business came to 600m sq ft as of October. India’s “mom and pop” stores are just as likely to be put to the wall by Reliance as by Wal-Mart....
...The politically connected Hasidim are, of course, not the only people living within the immediate vicinity of the proposed Wal-Mart store....
...Indiana and Joseph Biden of Delaware and New Mexico’s governor Bill Richardson....
...Wal-Mart has also launched football-themed marketing events at stores with significant Hispanic customers, with 155 stores participating in events that include setting up Astroturf football fields in the...
...And second, via ambitious plans to transform Indian food retailing that will see Bharti, in alliance with Wal-Mart Stores, open western-style hypermarkets across India....
...Retail was in focus with Wal-Mart losing 2.2 per cent to $44.16 after Merrill Lynch cut its rating on the stock from “buy” to “neutral”....
...Most Controversial The Waltons $78.9bn, Wal-Mart Bentonville, Arkansas What began in the 1960s as a family chain of variety stores in Arkansas has morphed into a global empire with 6,500 low-cost supermart...
...The success of the visit will help determine the ability of US companies such as Wal-Mart Stores to open up one of the last great emerging markets....
...Some time soon the notoriously liberal ninth circuit federal appeals court in California will hear arguments in the case of Women v Wal-Mart (official name: Dukes v Wal-Mart Stores)....
...s Japan, and Jacob de Jonge, of Wal-Mart advisory services. They would replace Takekuni Kasai, from Mizuho Bank, and Joseph Hatfield, chief executive of Wal-Mart China....
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