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Kiss: Next Album To Be A Wal-Mart Exclusive [News]...Wal-Mart saw AC/DC's "Black Ice" as a way to sell more than music. The company hawked AC/DC T-shirts and an exclusive AC/DC version of MTV Networks' Rock Band videogame. "As we looked at AC/DC's loyal fan base, that's when this idea came... In this article: Kiss, Wal-Mart, Gene Simmons, Ac/dc, Joe Perry, Paul Stanley, Aerosmith, and Rock Band |
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Reason Magazine - Topics > Internet | August 20, 2008
Change Amazon.com Can Believe In?
...mighty have fallen. In possibly related news, Billboard is quoting an unnamed source that says Guns & Roses' long-awaited epic, Chinese Democracy, may be released exclusively through either Wal-Mart or Best Buy. I don't know if that...
In this article: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Chinese Democracy, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, RSS Feed, and Billboard
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Pitchfork | March 02, 2009
Prince to Sell Three-CD Set Through Target
...a big-box store to sell an album. Guns N' Roses made a similar deal with Best Buy to sell Chinese Democracy, and Wal-Mart made a whole pile of money over the past few years selling Eagles and AC/DC albums. Here's the cover of LOtUSFLOW3R:
In this article: Target, Billboard, Chinese Democracy, Best Buy, Guns N' Roses, and Ac/dc
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Reuters | December 12, 2008
Chinese Democracy shows limits of retail exclusives
NEW YORK (Billboard) - When Wal-Mart sold 784,000 copies of AC/DC's "Black Ice" during the album's first week in stores, many label executives believed that more superstars would release albums exclusively through big-box retailers. And...
In this article: Chinese Democracy, Best Buy, Ac/dc, Guns N' Roses, Black Ice, Axl Rose, Billboard, Itunes, and Garth Brooks
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Rolling Stone | November 05, 2008
Are AC/DC and Guns N' Roses' Retail Deals Good Business?
Are AC/DC and Guns N' Roses' Retail Deals Good Business? Like the Eagles last year, AC/DC have struck gold with their exclusive deal with Wal-Mart to sell their new album Black Ice. Guns N' Roses hope to have the same success when Chinese...
In this article: Ac/dc, Guns N' Roses, Chinese Democracy, Black Ice, Angus Young, and Best Buy
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Entertainment Weekly | October 22, 2008
Guns N' Roses manager: 'Great art takes time'
...in now with the economy and the world. The game has changed, with artists like AC/DC selling through Wal-Mart and Guns at Best Buy, but Chinese Democracy, without a question, will be a No. 1 record." The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on...
In this article: Chinese Democracy, Guns N' Roses, Best Buy, Ac/dc, Rock music, MTV Video Music Awards, and WRXP
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Wired: Listening Post | August 18, 2008
Chinese Democracy: Only at Wal-Mart? Listening Post from Wired.com
...Wal-Mart or Best Buy. The Eagles (with whom G N' R shares a management company) distributed their latest album exclusively through Wal-Mart, which will also be the exclusive outlet for the next AC/DC release. Of course, many fans with...
In this article: Chinese Democracy, Best Buy, Guns N' Roses, Ac/dc, File sharing, Billboard, 14 Years, Wired.com, and Tommy Stinson
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IGN Music | December 19, 2008
Music 2008 Year in Review
...and vinyl versions of the release in their stores. While the aforementioned classic rock stalwarts embraced Wal-Mart and Best Buy, other artists continued to mine the wilderness of the Net. Trent Reznor pulled a Radiohead and released the...
In this article: Auto-Tune, The Slip, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Guitar Hero, Itunes, Rock Band, Best Buy, and Kanye West
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Description from Wikipedia:
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (branded as Walmart) is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. It is the world's largest public corporation by revenue, according to the 2008 Fortune Global 500. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. Wal-Mart is the largest private employer and the largest grocery retailer in the United States. It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail warehouses in North America.
Walmart operates in Mexico as Walmex, in the United Kingdom as Asda, in Japan as Seiyu, and in India as Best Price. It has wholly-owned operations in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Wal-Mart's investments outside North America have had mixed results: its operations in the United Kingdom, South America and China are highly successful, while it was forced to pull out of Germany and South Korea when ventures there were unsuccessful.
Walmart has been criticized by some community groups, women's rights groups, grassroots organizations, and labor unions, specifically for its extensive foreign product sourcing, low rates of employee health insurance enrollment, resistance to union representation, sexism, and management efforts to pressure employees to vote for specific parties during national elections. Conversely, others point out that Wal-Mart's rapid growth and logistical efficiency has enabled it to bring lower prices to consumers and more low paying jobs to the communities in which it operates.
- Name:
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Type:
- Public (NYSE: WMT)
- Location:
- Bentonville, Arkansas, U.S.
- Region:
- Worldwide
- Founder:
- Sam Walton
- Founded:
- Rogers, Arkansas, U.S. (1962)
- Stock Symbol:
- WMT
- Industry:
- Retailing
- Key People:
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- H. Lee Scott
- Mike Duke
- S. Robson Walton (Chairman)
- Products:
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- Supercenters
- Discount Stores
- Neighborhood Markets
- Revenue:
- US$ 404.16 Billion (2009)
- Operating Income:
- US$ 30.07 Billion (2009)
- Net Income:
- US$ 13.59 Billion (2009)
- Assets:
- US$ 163.514 Billion (2007)
- Equity:
- US$ 64.608 Billion (2007)
- No. of Employees:
- approx. 2,100,000 (2008)
- Motto:
- We sell for less! (Canada)
- Market Cap:
- US$ 202 Billion (2008)
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