Wal-Mart profit rises
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  on Tuesday posted higher quarterly profit after the world's biggest retailer cut prices on hot items like toys and electronics to lure customers during the holiday shopping season.
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Walgreen Co.  on Monday said  quarterly profit rose 14.2 percent, aided by higher sales of  prescription medications, and said it would look at more  acquisitions as the drugstore industry consolidates.
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Walgreen Co. , one of the  largest U.S. drugstore chains, posted a higher quarterly profit  on Monday, boosted by new stores and an inventory credit.
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General Mills Inc.  on Thursday said quarterly profit edged higher, though increased marketing spending and higher commodity costs tempered the increase.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. saw sales and profits increase during the third quarter this year, even as rising energy costs ate into customersâ spending money.
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Walgreen Co , one of the largest U.S. drugstore operators, said on Friday quarterly profit rose a better-than-expected 5.5 percent, helped by higher sales and cost controls.
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Wal-Mart reported a better-than-expected 9.8 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit yesterday, helped by new strategy and cost-control measures at its flagship U.S. stores division.
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Discount retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Monday pegged its December same-store sales growth at the midpoint of current estimates and said sales on the Sunday after Christmas exceeded expectations.
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Fourth-quarter earnings rose 42 percent from a year ago as profit margins at its U.S. stores improved despite higher commodity costs.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday said third quarter profits and sales climbed, though it called its key division&#39;s performance &quot;poor.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  on Thursday affirmed its profit forecast for the current quarter despite lackluster September sales growth.
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Top US retailers reported double-digit profit gains in the third quarter, with industry titan Wal-Mart Stores Inc. leading the pack and brightening its outlook for the key holiday season underpinned by the recent drop in oil prices.
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Walgreen Co  reported a better-than-expected rise in quarterly profit on Friday as cost controls offset weak sales of flu medications and a recall of cold medicines, sending the drugstore chain's shares up 7 percent.
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Target, the No. 2 discount chain behind Wal-Mart Stores, said profit rose to $651 million, or 75 cents a share, from $554 million, or 63 cents a share, a year earlier.
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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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-- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said Tuesday its renewed focus on low prices paid off with a 4 percent rise in profit for its fourth quarter as holiday shoppers bought discounted groceries and home electronics as well as health and wellness products.
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Walgreen Co , one of the largest U.S. drugstore operators, posted higher quarterly profit on Friday, helped by higher sales and cost controls.