WAL-MART STORES INC: DOMINATING GLOBAL RETAILING Brief summary The Wal-mart is the largest retail chain in United States and in the world. The wal-mart was founded in the year 1962 by Mr Sam Walton. It was originally named as Wal-Mart discount city in Rogers‚ Arkansas. At the time when the Wal-Mart stores started in the year 1962 it was focused only in small rural cites and town which had a population of 5000 to 25000. It was soon increased to 18 stores in 1969. In the next 30 years
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i. About sears outlet Sears hometown and outlet stores were founded in 1952 as a joint business venture by Simpsons and Sears‚ its headquarters are located in 290 Yonge Street (Toronto Eaton Centre) Toronto‚ Ontario‚ Canada. Sears outlet is a retailer that deals with sales of home appliances‚ garden equipment‚ apparel‚ mattresses‚ sporting tools and goods‚ and tools. Sears outlet store has four secondary store formats: they include the sears hometown‚ sears outlet‚ sears hardware‚ sears appliance
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Walmart financial analysis project CONTENTS 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
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Kmart and Sears: Still Stuck In The Middle? On January 22‚ 2002‚ Kmart Corporation became the largest retailer in U.S. history to seek bankruptcy protection. Kmart management said that they would outline a plan for repaying Kmart’s creditors‚ reducing its size‚ and restructuring its business so that it could leave court protection as a viable competitor in discount mass-marketretailing. Emerging from bankruptcy in May 2003‚ Kmart still lacked a business strategy to succeed in an extremely competitive
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A co-op store is a store which is owned and controlled by members of a cooperative‚ rather than a single store-owner or corporate entity. The cooperative tradition dates back to the 1700s in Great Britain‚ when workers began organizing in cooperatives in an attempt to get around usurious prices for basic goods‚ housing‚ and other services. Today‚ cooperative stores can be found all over the world‚ and some of these stores are extremely successful business entities. The idea behind a co-op store is
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SEAR ROEBUCKS SWOT ANALYSIS Author Diane Hughes SEARS HISTORY Richard Sears was agent of the Minneapolis andSt. Louis railway station. He sold lumber and coal to local residents in his spare time. When he received a shipment of unwanted watches he purchased himself and began selling them at a good profit to other station agent up and down the line. In 1886 Sears began the R.W. Sears Watch Company. In 1887 he moved the business to Chicago and put an adin the local paper for a Watchman
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Wal-Mart stores in 2003 Identify the issue Wal-Mart stores‚ one of the most successful retailing chain in the world‚ has gain competitive advantage over its competitors. Thanks to his unique set of features‚ like its powerful IT system‚ its way of manage suppliers or its logistic system‚ Wal-Mart is able to responds quickly at demand changing‚ maintain low costs and satisfy its customers. Framework used in analysis The analysis will be conducted using the value chain framework in order to analyze
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Walmart - My Favorite Store Walmart is America’s biggest retailer. Not only are their prices reasonable‚ they have EVERYTHING! Everyone shops at Walmart. By everyone‚ I mean approximately 2.35 million people shop there a day. That many people is almost as much as Canada’s population. Another fact to show how great Walmart really is would be by looking at Walmart’s economy alone. If Walmart was a country‚ it would have the 26th largest economy in the world. these facts show how great Walmart’s industry
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Business and Industry Analysis Business Analysis Sears Roebuck & Co.‚ founded by R. W. Sears in 1886‚ is a multi-line retailer that offers a variety of merchandise and related services. It operates primarily in the United States‚ Puerto Rico‚ and Canada. Sears‚ Roebuck‚ & Co. is ranked fifth in 3 the retail market‚ behind: Wal-mart Stores Inc.‚ Target Corp.‚ Kohl’s Corp‚ and JC Penney Company Inc. In 2003‚ the company was divided into three domestic segments: Retail and Related Services‚ Credit
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the ratios of the strategics profit model for Walmart and Target stores. Interpret these ratios with the special attention to comparing these two major discount retailer. I thought that Walmart is significantly higher than Target. Walmart is increasing at the steady rate‚ whereas Target changes a lot. Target eventually gets to a point where its still increasing but its not increasing at the same rate that Walmart is. At the end of third quarter of Walmart had nearly $210 billion in assets. On average
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