Wal-Mart
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Canada high court rules for Wal-Mart in union case...their firings violated Canada's constitution, which guarantees freedom of association. Wal-Mart employs 77,500 people in Canada. Among its North American operations, only bakery and restaurant employees in Mexico are represented by a... In this article: Wal-Mart, Canada, Quebec, North America, United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Ian Binnie, Supreme Court, and Quebec City |
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Reuters | 19 hours ago
UPDATE 2-Canada's top court backs Wal-Mart in union dispute
* Court rules no law obliges employer to stay in business Canada's top court on Friday backed the right of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. <WMT.N> to close a store after a union organized workers there it but said such closures could require the retail...
In this article: Supreme Court, Canada, Quebec, Ian Binnie, United States, and North America
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CNN | 19 hours ago
Wal-Mart's Black Friday: Frenzied, but no trouble
...Best Buy) Unlike years past when shoppers queued up the night before in order to be the first one in the store, Wal-Mart said it would offer extended hours at many of its non-24 hour locations this year to accommodate post-Thanksgiving...
In this article: Black Friday, Cnnmoney.com, St. Louis, Thanksgiving, National Retail Federation, Sanyo, and Nasdaq
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thestar.com | 19 hours ago
Top court backs Wal-Mart over union store closing
...to crush union Shoppers come and go from a Wal-Mart in Jonquiere, near Chicoutimi Que., in 2004 after it became the first Wal-Mart in Canada to vote to become unionized. Wal-Mart shut the store in 2005. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE...
In this article: Quebec, Rosalie Abella, Ian Binnie, Ottawa, Canada, Burden of proof, and Beverly McLachlin
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Wal-Mart price pressure hurts China workers: report
...goods at low prices, and workers suffer the financial burden," China Labor Watch, a New York-based rights group, said. Wal-Mart said it launched an investigation into the five factories referenced in the report after learning of the...
In this article: China, Thomson Reuters, Allegation, Small business, NYSE, and Nasdaq
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Wal-Mart has not applied for retail stores-India min
Wal-Mart Stores <WMT.N>, the world's largest retailer, has not sought to invest in retail stores in India, the junior trade minister told parliament on Wednesday. The U.S. firm has also not sought any changes to India's ban on foreign...
In this article: India, Bharti Enterprises, and U.S.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune | 3 days ago
Wal-Mart tries to fit Eden Prairie's vision for future
The giant retailer is taking pains to have a place in Eden Prairie's town center. Last update: November 24, 2009 - 5:18 PM A year ago, Wal-Mart wanted its Eden Prairie store site removed from the area the city wants to reshape as a...
In this article: Star Tribune and Anoka County
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Walmart.com touts pricing clout for holidays
...browse the groceries that it sells in its stores but they can not yet purchase them for home delivery. He said Walmart.com wants to ensure it does not spread itself too thin or hurt its customer experience by overextending itself. He also...
In this article: Thanksgiving, Amazon.com, DVD, and Target Corp
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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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- Mike Duke
- H. Lee Scott
- S. Robson Walton (Chairman)
- Products:
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- Neighborhood Markets
- Discount Stores
- Supercenters
- 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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