Year-to-date, fireworks in big cap names cover Apple, Wal-Mart, General Electric, Wells Fargo, Oracle, Philip Morris International, Merck, Amazon, Visa and Qualcomm.
"Resolving this litigation is in the best interest of our company, our shareholders and our associates, " said Tom Mars, general counsel of Wal-Mart Stores.
Best Buy competes with general retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco as well as other specialty retailers like Radio Shack and GameStop.
His aim was to inspire marketers from Dow Chemical, General Mills, Wal-Mart and Xerox, among others, to sell more of their products the Obama way.
Best Buy is a specialty electronics retailer that competes with general retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco as well as other specialty retailers like GameStop and RadioShack.
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Wildman, an assistant general counsel at Wal-Mart in the U.S., worked in the company's India headquarters from last July to February to set up procedures for complying with the FCPA, which prohibits U.S. companies from paying bribes to foreign officials.
He is a founder of Business for Affordable Medicine, an unlikely coalition of ten states, three labor unions and ten companies (such as General Motors, Wal-Mart and Motorola) now lobbying for Congress to outlaw some of the tactics used to stretch out drug patents.
Relentlessly asking the tough questions is how behemoths like Wal-Mart, Microsoft and General Electric stay on top.
Rounding out the top 10 were China Resources Vanguard, RT-Mart International, Chonqing General Trading Group, Carrefour China, Yum!
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General Mills is putting the Wal- Mart FLW Tour's angler of the year on a Wheaties box this fall.
General merchandisers such as Carrefour and Wal-Mart (if, as seems likely, it finally takes the plunge) are probably in for a tougher time.
Highlights: U.S. multinationals, like General Electric, Caterpillar, Microsoft and Wal-Mart, employ one-fifth of all American workers.
He writes that Wal-Mart is still the price leader for general merchandise, but adds that prices are equivalent when sales taxes are included and with free shipping for Amazon Prime members is used.
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Both tend to compete with traditional food retailers like Kraft and General Mills, as well as newcomers like Wal-Mart and Target.
Wal-Mart would have a better shot if the Solicitor General supported bringing the case before the Supreme Court.
The same revolution in logistics and computer-driven merchandising that led to Wal-Mart is now being used by companies like Dollar General to build highly profitable stores within cities.
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Wal-Mart Express is anticipated to compete with stores like Dollar General (NYSE: DG).
Wal-Mart is not immune to economic cycles, but a general retail slump would demolish Amazon.
Comparing 20 general merchandise categories with roughly 480 items at Target and Wal-Mart, he finds Amazon.com offers 78x the assortment of the brick-and-mortar stores, while Target.com has 3.5x as many goods as the stores, and Walmart.com 5.6x the selection of the stores.
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Wal-Mart, with a big piece of its sales coming from general merchandise, where margins can be thicker, is more profitable than Kroger.
Who will be left to buy General Electric at 30 times next year's expected earnings, Wal-Mart at 40 times or Cisco Systems at 60 times?
The chain, controlled by hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert, competes most with Wal-Mart and Target, as well as Costco and discount chains like Dollar General.
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Amazon competes primarily with leading retailer Wal-Mart, consumer electronics giant Best Buy and eBay Marketplaces in the Electronics and General Merchandise market, Apple in the device market, and Netflix and Barnes and Noble in the content market.
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That floated all boats, certainly filling the stores for Wal-Mart and Home Depot and keeping the car lots humming for dealers of vehicles from Ford and General Motors.
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So he is confident that Dollar General will maintain a 5% comparable-store sales gain largely due to its price advantage over Wal-Mart.
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