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    Wal-Mart Case

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    Wal-Mart in China 1) Why is Wal-Mart successful in the U.S.? What are Wal-Mart’s competitive advantages and its sources? Wal-Mart has been successful and holds many competitive advantages in the U.S. for multiple reasons. First‚ Sam Walton believed that the future of retail chains lay in discounting. While he certainly had competitors when getting started‚ Walton focused on opening stores in “one-horse‚” rural areas that other retailers ignored. This was key as Wal-Mart grew at a very rapid

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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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    Assignment: Wal-Mart

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    Wal-Mart…marketing‚ advertising‚ purposeful goal‚ summary 06/09/2012 MAN230-Advertising Principles Myrna Celaya Professor Fletcher Stevens-Henager College-Online Wal-Mart‚ the retail icon‚ taking on yet another strategy when sitting somewhat comfortably‚ (a business is never comfortable or should not be so comfortable)‚ especially when the one to “beat.” Advertising strategy is as any strategy and that is with risk. An example of such risk is investing and the risk tolerance for each

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    Wal-Mart Ethics

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    Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. is currently entangled in a legal battle that will decide if the company has engaged willfully in gender-based discrimination. Underlying causes‚ organizational culture and ethical issues will be examined in determining how the largest private employer in the United States could have fallen prey to unfair labor practices. "In 1999‚ women constituted 72% of Wal-Mart’s hourly employees‚ but only 33% of its managerial employees" (Bhatnagar‚ 2004). This fact and many others

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    Wal-Mart Resources

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    Assignment 1 Introduction Wal-Mart uses a tremendous amount of information resources to build their marketing decision support systems and customer relationship management environment. Wal-Mar’s main objective is to provide their customers with the best value they can find anywhere while providing friendly and efficient customer service. Its strategies are based on reducing costs to quality products so they are able to achieve “everyday low prices” (Walmart.com‚ 2013). Wal-Mart has to be able to monitor

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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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    Wal Mart Case

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    Wal-Mart’s Foreign Expansion Do you think Wal-Mart could translate its merchandising strategy wholesale to another country and succeed? If not‚ why not? I do think Wal-Mart could translate its merchandising strategy wholesale to another country‚ but i can not guarantee it will operate successful in all the countries. Wal-Mart as a merchandise store‚ it has to investigate the rivals and purchasing power as well as customers’ purchasing habits before it enters to a completely new market. Without

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    Boondocking at Wal-Mart

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    “Boondocking” At Wal-Mart Q1: List the stakeholders involved and their influence. Identify any fundamentals of business or capitalism involved. Recreational Vehicle (RV) Park Owners---For example: Ted McAfee. These owners have directly influence on the local city regulations and Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart stores---The stores allow those RV owners parking at store parking lots for free; however‚ they do not provide any kind of facilities to them. RV owners---They preferred to parking at Wal-Mart’s parking

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    wal-mart in Mexico

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    1997 Wal-Mart consolidated its position in Mexico after it acquired a major stake of 62% in Cifra. 2001 it controlled nearly half of the Mexican retail market. 2003 Wal-Mex became Mexico’s largest private employer. Success factors: 1. entry through a joint venture with an established local player. Cifra provided Wal-Mart with the necessary understanding of the Mexican market and helped it fine-tune its strategies to suit the Mexican customer. 2

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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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