Walmart in China
How to win Chinese consumers: Competetive strategy of Wal-Mart in China
ATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES
1. Jayalakshmi Gopalkrishnan, Faculty, Asian School Of Business Management, Siksha Vihar,Chandaka,Bhubaneswar,India. jaya_gopalkrishnan2006@yahoo.co.in,9777627771 2. D.Ramalingam, Faculty, Department of Computing, Middle East College of Information Technology, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. 3.Dr. V.K.Gupta,Professor, Indian Institute of Management,Indore,India 4. R.K Verma,Associate Professor, Asian School of Business management, Siksha Vihar,Chandaka,Bhubaneswar, India.
ow to win Chinese Consumers: Competetive strategy of Wal-Mart in China
Founded by Sam Walton, the first Wal-Mart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Seventeen years later, annual sales topped $1 billion. By the end of January 2002, WalMart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart), was the world’s largest retailer, with $218 billion in sales.Wal-Mart’s winning strategy in the U.S. was based on selling branded products at low cost. Each week, about 100 million customers visited a Wal-Mart store somewhere in the world. By 2004, Wal-Mart, the world 's largest company operated discount stores, neighborhood stores, hypermarkets (Wal-Mart Super centers) and membership warehouses (Sam 's Club). In the 1990s Wal-Mart started to expand abroad. It entered China in 1996, Korea in 1997, and Japan in 2002. In China, Wal-Mart operated and aggressively expanded its retail business in partnerships, joint venture partners and suppliers. In Japan, Wal-Mart invested in 2002 in Seiyu, a prominent Japanese retailing chain. In Asia Wal-Mart is engaged in tough competition with other global and domestic retailers. The author’s intention of writing this case study is to explore into the complexities of Wal-Mart’s Chinese venture. China poses a huge challenge for Walmart as there exist cross cultural diversities among the Chinese population.Walmarts needs to understand the Chinese market first and then think of a
ATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES
1. Jayalakshmi Gopalkrishnan, Faculty, Asian School Of Business Management, Siksha Vihar,Chandaka,Bhubaneswar,India. jaya_gopalkrishnan2006@yahoo.co.in,9777627771 2. D.Ramalingam, Faculty, Department of Computing, Middle East College of Information Technology, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. 3.Dr. V.K.Gupta,Professor, Indian Institute of Management,Indore,India 4. R.K Verma,Associate Professor, Asian School of Business management, Siksha Vihar,Chandaka,Bhubaneswar, India.
ow to win Chinese Consumers: Competetive strategy of Wal-Mart in China
Founded by Sam Walton, the first Wal-Mart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Seventeen years later, annual sales topped $1 billion. By the end of January 2002, WalMart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart), was the world’s largest retailer, with $218 billion in sales.Wal-Mart’s winning strategy in the U.S. was based on selling branded products at low cost. Each week, about 100 million customers visited a Wal-Mart store somewhere in the world. By 2004, Wal-Mart, the world 's largest company operated discount stores, neighborhood stores, hypermarkets (Wal-Mart Super centers) and membership warehouses (Sam 's Club). In the 1990s Wal-Mart started to expand abroad. It entered China in 1996, Korea in 1997, and Japan in 2002. In China, Wal-Mart operated and aggressively expanded its retail business in partnerships, joint venture partners and suppliers. In Japan, Wal-Mart invested in 2002 in Seiyu, a prominent Japanese retailing chain. In Asia Wal-Mart is engaged in tough competition with other global and domestic retailers. The author’s intention of writing this case study is to explore into the complexities of Wal-Mart’s Chinese venture. China poses a huge challenge for Walmart as there exist cross cultural diversities among the Chinese population.Walmarts needs to understand the Chinese market first and then think of a
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