India's Bharti group ties up with America's Wal-Mart
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The world's largest retailer Wal-Mart has tied up with Bharti Enterprises, India's top private phone company parent, to enter the fast-growing retail market, Bharti's chairman has announced.
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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The stage is set for a family meeting of the Ambanis here on Monday on the ownership issue in the Rs 80,000 crore-Reliance group of industries as Mukesh Ambani returned from the US even as his brother Anil is understood to have
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Shares in Daiei rallied, backed by a report that the world's biggest retailer Wal-Mart Stores is ready to rescue the ailing supermarket chain without the help of a Japanese government-backed body.
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Top News News, New Delhi,India made it clear Thursday that it was ready to join a US-proposed coordination group to tackle the tsunami disaster in South and Southeast Asia.
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JUNCTION CITY, Kan. - Paula Alvarez and Dale Thompson knew their friends and fellow employees at Wal-Mart might not be able to attend their wedding because of work. "We decided to bring the wedding to them," Alvarez said.  So Wednesday night, the Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Wal-Mart has become the dominant retailing force in the U.S., but its experience overseas has been checkered.
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Wal-Mart , the world's largest retailer, said on Monday it acquired a 35 percent stake in Chinese supercenter operator Bounteous Company Ltd., expanding its presence in the world's most populous country.
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WAL-MART Stores, the worldâs largest retailer and owner of Asda supermarkets, has reported a 12.7 per cent rise in its third-quarter earnings.
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General Electric Co. GE.N said on  Friday that two private investment firms completed a deal to  buy a majority interest in its India-based back office unit.
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Low-cost British clothing retailer Asda, owned by US giant Wal-Mart, has launched an investigation into allegations that its production facilities in Bangladesh were abusing the rights of their workers, The Guardian reported on Monday.
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Indian conglomerate Tata is planning to take advantage of the country's booming economy with a chain of shops.
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HONG KONG/NEW YORK  - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, will pay about $1 billion to take over a Chinese chain, challenging Carrefour as the largest operator of super-centers in booming China.
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Retailing giant Wal-Mart will let  officials from China's state-run trade union to form and join  unions, a company spokesman said on Friday as the two sides  continued talks on the controversy.
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Dutch steel groups Ispat International and LNM Holdings, both run by Indian businessman Lakshmi Mittal, said they had agreed to merge with US International Steel Group to form the world's largest steelmaker.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has asked to hold talks with China's state-sanctioned labor group after employees formed the retailer's first Chinese unions, the labor group and a state news agency said Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores, the worldâs largest retailer, said it had acquired a 35 percent stake in the Bounteous Company in China. Bounteous operates 101 hypermarkets in 34 Chinese cities under the Trust-Mart banner. Wal-Mart said it eventually expected to acquire control of the company. A Wal-Mart vice chairman, Michael Duke, called the investment âan important step in bringing our additional scale to our China retail business.â Wal-Mart said it already operated 73 stores in China. Trust-Mart stores employ more than 31,000, and will continue to use the Trust-Mart name.
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The relationship between Wal-Mart's chief executive and entrepreneur Irwin Jacobs, a vendor to the world's largest retailer, is taking some heat.