WAL-MART COOPERATION [pic] I. Company Profile Wal-Mart is an American multinational retail corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's largest public corporation, according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2014, the biggest private employer in the world with over two million employees, and is the largest retailer in the world. Walmart remains a family-owned business, as the company is controlled by the Walton family
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Sam’s Clubs GLOBAL INDUSTRY ANALYSIS - CASE STUDY Wal*Mart Stores, Inc. a presentation p 1 Sam Walton Founder of Wal*Mart Stores, , Inc. Performance of Wal*Mart 20-year average return on equity of 33% Compound average sales growth of 35% Market value = $57.5 billion $ Wal*Mart Sales per square foot $300 Industry average $210 WAL MART Background 2 Year 1988 CEO: David Glass COO: Don Soderquist How to sustain the company’s phenomenal performance? 1987 Net sales Net Income Number Of Stores
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Executive Summary At the beginning of 2009, Wal-Mart top management faces the question of whether the same strategy that it has been adopting in the past can be used to maintain the company’s remarkable performance and growth in the next decade. In the last 10 years, Wal-Mart has achieved strong and constant growth in sales and net income. It has maintained the leading position in the U.S. discount retail industry and has become the largest retailer in the world. With the maturity
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Executive Summary At the beginning of 2009, Wal-Mart top management faces the question of whether the same strategy that it has been adopting in the past can be used to maintain the company’s remarkable performance and growth in the next decade. In the last 10 years, Wal-Mart has achieved strong and constant growth in sales and net income. It has maintained the leading position in the U.S. discount retail industry and has become the largest retailer in the world. With the maturity
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Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has failed and pulled out its operations in two countries in 2006. This is a good case to discuss about how regional dynamics may effect internationalization as Wal-Mart is successful in countries like Mexico, Canada and UK while it faced a failure in South Korea and Germany. Wal-Mart entered South Korea in 1998 when the South Korean Government opened up retail markets to foreign investments (Ramstad, 2006). This unrelenting action was probably because of
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the Wal-Mart Company Q 1 A) Find and list the names of the Board of Directors for the Wal-Mart Company. Members of the Board of Directors of the Wal-Mart are: Aida M. Alvarez (joined Wal-Mart in 2006) - a director for UnionBanCal Corporation; James W. Breyer (joined Wal-Mart in 2001) - a director of RealNetworks, Inc., Marvel Entertainment, Inc., and several private companies; M. Michele Burns (joined Wal-Mart in 2003) – a director for Cisco Systems, Inc. James I. Cash, Jr. (joined Wal-Mart
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INTRODUCTION4 VISION STATEMENT5 MISSION and OBJECTIVES5 COMPANY SUMMARY6 OWNERSHIP6 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE7 HISTORY OF WAL-MART8 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS9 MARKETING ANALYSIS10 MARKET SEGMENT11 MARKET SHARE13 DOMESTIC COMPETITORS14 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITORS15 CURRENT PRODUCTS16 PRODUCTS16 BCG MATRIX17 STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION SUMMARY19 COMPETITIVE EDGE20 MARKETING AND SALES STRATEGY21 COST STRATEGY21 CAPITAL STRUCTURE STRATEGY21 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS22 GENERAL OVERVIEW22 OPERATING
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market shares. The most dominant firm in this aspect is U.S. based Wal-Mart that leads with sales revenue exceeding $466.1 billion in 2012, followed by French based Carrefour with income of $112.6 billion (Forbes, 2013). They are trailed by U.K based Tesco at $96.8 billion and by Germany’s Metro in fourth place with sales of $90.5 billion (Forbes, 2013). The common strategy of these stated firms has been to target their marketing efforts towards rapidly emerging countries by investing in the establishment
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Walmart’s Strategy Walmart’s Current strategy In Walmart's thinking, there are three types of shopping trips (Depillis, 2013): The stock-up mission- this kind of shopping trip brings families to Walmart's 3,200 nationwide Supercenters. The basic grocery run- where shopping trip shoppers want to go someplace nearby, such as one of Walmart's 300 neighborhood markets. The "immediate access" stops - where shoppers head for the traditional convenience store. As of today, Walmart hasn't really
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