Wal-Mart And DraftFCB: Over Before It Started
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Looking back now, it's easy to pinpoint the day it went bad. DraftFCB, angling for every advantage it could get in Wal-Mart's $570 million blockbuster review, invited client svp of marketing communications Julie Roehm to speak at the shop's Sept. 20 presentation to some 35 search consultants visiting New York shops as part of AdForum's annual one-week tour. It was an invite that would eventually help undo both Roehm and DraftFCB's relationship with the world's largest retailer.
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Yahoo looked to new leadership in its battle against Google. It was a bad week for automakers. Home Depot downsized by a unit, and Wal-Mart introduced products and services for the unbanked.
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A quick screen for making winning picks.
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New OWB merits serious consideration
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Company exec's post-launch spiel published too soon, it seems
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it faced glitches with its gift-card verification system on the day after Christmas, when a large number of its customers came to its stores for post-Christmas shopping, but resolved them on the same day.
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Wal-Mart Stores Incorporate vice chairman Tom Coughlin is retiring from the Bentonville-based retailer. Coughlin&#39;s responsibilities include overseeing Wal-Mart and Sam&#39;s Club warehouse stores.
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I picked up my 6-year-old son from school last week, and we drove to Wal-Mart to see the future for paper checks. We grabbed a few of life&#39;s staples: some Legos, a pack of 3x5 cards to create
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By Larry Rulison, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec.
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China's Communist Party-controlled union is ready to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. set up union branches at its Chinese outlets "as soon as possible," reports and union officials said Thursday.
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Wal-Mart de MÃ©xico, the discount retailer, said it had received final approval from MexicoÂs finance ministry to open a Mexican bank. The retailer said that Julio GÃ³mez MartÃ­nez, former chief executive of the Bank One Corporation in Mexico, would head the independent unit, known as Banco Wal-Mart de MÃ©xico Adelante. The bank will begin operating during the second half of 2007, the company said.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said Thursday it has agreed to cooperate with China's state-sanctioned labor group in creating unions at its 60 Chinese outlets.
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To all who have been fired or laid off: This is life. Get over it (''Hundreds laid off at Fleet offices,&quot; Aug. 19). Free markets allow for such things and when this merger happened, not a soul outside of the public relations people for the bank thought that this merger would take place without the loss of many positions. After ...
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart will scale back the number of planned U.S. supercenter store openings next year by more than 25 percent, a move that will drop its capital expenditures by $1.5 billion in the current fiscal year, the company announced Friday at its annual shareholders meeting.
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Business & money: Senior Wal-Mart executive fired for breaching ethics policies turns the tables on her former employer.
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SHANGHAI : Global retail powerhouse Wal-Mart says it will allow unions in its stores in China but insisted this has always been the case and that the company is in compliance with the law on the issue.
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Wal-Mart failed to get approval for a bank. But the giant discount chain is effectively building one anyway.