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    Wal-Mart Scandal

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    New York Times reporter David Barstow uncovered a shocking story against retail giant‚ Wal-Mart. His investigation started after Wal-Mart shut down its internal investigation over the possible bribery of Mexican officials. Wal-Mart used these bribes to accelerate growth in their Mexican zoning areas. These allegations surfaced when a Hispanic lawyer contacted Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville Arkansas. This lawyer had inside information on Wal-Mart’s bribes‚ as he represented them in their acts

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    Wal-Mart Controversy

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    Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer‚ but controversy surrounds their operating practices (Ferrell‚ Fraedrich‚ & Ferrell‚ 2013). The company known for significant sales profits‚ a large employee base‚ and the everyday low price provided to consumers is clouded by the pressure applied to suppliers requiring continuous reduction in pricing (Smith & Young‚ 2004). The small startup company that has grown to a multitude of stores across several countries does have some positive impact‚ but is it overshadowed

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    Wal-Mart Sustainability

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    Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Strategy (textiles) Wal-Mart is the largest US retailer. Company’s decision to implement the business sustainability strategy to become “the most competitive and innovative company in the wolrd” should have a huge impact; since not only the company will become sustainable‚ but 60‚000+ suppliers would b forced to implement sustainability. Wal-Mart is deriving business value from this not from generating news sales and creating profit‚ but by improving brand image and creating

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    Is Wal-Mart a Monopsony?

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    Wal-Mart Is the world ’s largest retailer‚ Wal-Mart‚ a Monopsyny? • Monopsony arises when a firm captures the ability to dictate price to its suppliers‚ because the suppliers have no real choice other than to deal with that buyer. • One in every five retail sales in America is recorded at Wal-Mart ’s cash registers. • The firm ’s revenue nearly equals that of the next six retailers combined. • Wal-Mart has faced several accusations of‚ "predatory pricing"‚ or intentionally selling a product

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    Wal-Mart Case

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    Wal-Mart Case Wal-World? Strategic Planning Individual Assignment Table of Contents Introduction .3 “Wal-Mart takes on the world” Case overview 4 1. International expansion as a critical part of Wal-Mart’s strategy 5 2. Success in Canada and Latin America and why not Europe? 5 3. How could the company ensure success in China and India? 6 4. Transferring Wal-Mart’s business practices and culture internationally 6 5. Can American success leverage International success? 6 6. Early

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    Wal-Mart and Costco

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    1. Introduction Wal-Mart Wal-Mart was founded by Sam Walton on 1962 and it is the largest retailer in the world. The company has three major operations which are Wal-Mart Stores U.S.‚ Sam ’s Club‚ and Wal-Mart International. On 2007‚ Wal-Mart used this new slogan” Save Money Live Better”. However‚ there are some critics about their employee life. Wal-Mart exploits their employee’s salary for setting low price to customer. They resisted their worker to build union organization because they tried

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    Wal-Mart Strategy

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    As the corporate planning manager for Target I have looked into our biggest competitor and analyzed how Wal-Mart’s strategy has brought them such great success. Since 1969 when the company first started‚ the founder Sam Walton‚ has instilled his personal frugality into the business which had lead them to be one biggest and best companies in the retail market with over 288 billion in sales and 8.9% market share in the US. I believe by adapting some of these strategies into our own operations and existing

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    Wal-Mart Marketing

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    Wal-Mart Marketing Bradley Shelburg BUS620 (NAC1202A) Prof. David Kalicharan January 30‚ 2012 Wal-mart Marketing “Wal-Mart Stores Inc‚ the world’s largest retailer‚ wants to be your local neighborhood store” (Kumar‚ 2011). Wal-Mart has launched “My Local Wal-Mart” pages on Facebook for more than three thousand five hundred of its stores. This is one of many current marketing strategies that Wal-Mart currently has in place. This strategy is both a generic and segmented marketing

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    Wal-Mart vs K-Mart

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    WAL-MART VS K-MART: A COMPARISON OF TWO BUSINESS STRATEGIES By Jason Ramirez Management & Strategy Wal-Mart and K-Mart are two of the largest and most successful retail outlets in the country. Both retailers have been around for fifty years and made their success out of low cost retailing. In 1990 Wal-Mart surpassed K-Mart as the largest retail outlet in the country. In this paper I will discuss the strategies being used by both firms‚ the success/failures of these strategies and

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    Valuing Wal-Mart

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    Assessment of Wal-Mart valuation using different methods To test the assumption of a discount rate of 7% as given in the outline of the case‚ we calculated the required rate of return for the Wal-Mart stock using CAPM . Using rWalMart = Rf + βWalMart [E(RM) – RF]‚ we find the required rate of return to be 7.01% and in line with the information given in the case outline. Perpetual dividend growth model: The standard method of calculating a stock price using the perpetual dividend growth

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