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The Los Angeles Business (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is firmly planted on the Hannah Montana bandwagon. (WMT) (DIS)
The Business Journal of Phoenix (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is firmly planted on the Hannah Montana bandwagon. (WMT) (DIS)
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday GamePolitics reported on the first part of a video game retail sting conducted by reporter Joce Sterman of Baltimore's ABC-2. Readers may recall that Best Buy registered a perfect score by turning down an underage secret shopper during all three attempts to purchase M-rated game. Target? Not so good... In part 2, GameStop came up a winner, also registering a perfect score. That's not too...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Free Wake-Up Calls and Activity Reminders Available Beginning Today BENTONVILLE, Ark., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As back to school season approaches, moms and dads across the country are planning to deal with sleepy students struggling with the tough transition from a carefree summer schedule to a back-to-school wake up routine. With the help of Wal-Mart and Disney, parents will have access...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Police are trying to find a man suspected of leaving an explosive device outside a Wal-Mart store in Boone, North Carolina, that was disabled by a bomb squad. Police told The Winston-Salem Journal on Tuesday that a surveillance video showed a man running up...
The Memphis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The Gray's Creek Association filed Tuesday a formal letter appealing Land Use Control Board's July 10 approval of a new Wal-Mart Stores Inc. supercenter at the corner of Houston Levee and Macon Road. (WMT)
Wal-Mart Watch (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Just one day after a release chronicling Wal-Mart’s continuing reputation problems and the impact they have on the company’s business, a new study from the UK shows Wal-Mart’s branding is struggling overseas as well.
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
This essay explores on the interesting supply chain management practices of Wal-Mart, from the external to the internal, as one of the major reasons for Wal-Mart’s continuing success globally. The three assessment questions that highlight this essay are the appraisal of the essential pre-requisites for docking, the evaluation of the...
Parks Associates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Okay, we have an official trifecta: a home networking support story ( Cisco buys Pure Networks ), a service provider support story ( Comcast struggles with support ), and now the retail angle (Best Buy vs. Circuit City) in today's USA TODAY . Costco, Sam's Club, and Wal-Mart, etc. are becoming a more important channel for electronics sales, Our own research from The Changing Consumer Electronics Purchase...
Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Geneva-based Covalence has published its quarterly ethical reputation rankings. The main results across sectors are: Toyota gets Best EthicalQuote Score across sectors ahead of Unilever and HSBC. Automobiles and Technology occupy best progress category Wal-Mart, Toyota and General Motors again show best Reported Performance Emerging topics in Q2 2008 have been: Social Stability, Lobbying Practices,...
The Houston Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
My Healthy Access Inc. has signed a joint operating agreement with NuPhysicia LLC for telemedicine clinics in select Houston-area Wal-Mart Supercenters.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--My Healthy Access, Inc.’s (OTCBB:MYHA) mission to continually provide the highest-quality access to health care available today
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
WASHINGTON, July 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Wal-Mart Watch: Wal-Mart's sales are improving, but different measures of public opinion indicate that the company's reputation continues to decline - primarily because of the company's poor business practices. Wal-Mart's reputation remains the biggest obstacle to the company's long-term growth potential. Wal-Mart...
Business Pundit (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Do you feel poor? Wal-Mart’s hoping so. Staggering consumer confidence is driving up sales for the world’s largest retailer. Same store sales were up almost 6% in June, beating the estimates. As the economy continues to slow, Americans are making up for higher prices by shopping at low price retailers like Wal-Mart. Sales got a [...]
Indy Star (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Wal-Mart's Easter advertising gaffe should be a lesson to all, says Jamaison Schuler of the Public Relations Society of America.
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courtneymilsson | 04/28/2008
International shoppers took advantage of the weak dollar to travel to the United States to shop for Christmas presents late last year. At the same time, U.S. retailers were trying to determine how best to bring the merchandise to them. While international expansion is nothing new for some businesses, there are so many retailers opening overseas that it's becoming hard to keep track.
bhakti | 03/06/2008
Editorial: Organic Cotton: Small But Growing H&M is just one of an increasing number of major retailers to declare a commitment to the use of organic cotton (see page 17). Others include Marks & Spencer and Wal-Mart. In order to be classified as “organic”, a crop must be cultivated in soil whose fertility is maintained and replenished without the use of toxic and persistent pesticides and fertilisers.
vedha | 01/16/2008
Contribution of the textile sector to Indian economy is reflected in terms of industrial production, employment generation and foreign exchange earnings. It contributes about 4% to the GDP, 14% to industrial production, and 16% to India’s country's export earnings. Thus the textile industry plays an important role and is one of the key growth engines of the economy. This Industry Insight answers the...
