Wal-Mart buys 35 percent stake in 101-store China retail chain
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Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, said Tuesday it had bought 35 percent of the Taiwan-owned Trust-Mart hypermarket chain, which operates 101 stores in China.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N, the  world's largest retailer, said on Saturday it still expects a 2  percent to 4 percent increase in November sales at its U.S.  stores open at least a year.
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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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Wal-Mart is to allow its Chinese employees to join a trade union following pressure from the Chinese authorities.
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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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Employees at the China headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have set up a Communist Party branch, part of a growing campaign to expand the ruling party's presence in foreign companies.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s top retailer, on Wednesday said its board of directors authorized a $10 billion stock repurchase plan, replacing a $7 billion share buyback program.
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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 Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s largest retailer, said on Saturday it still expects a 2 percent to 4 percent increase in November sales at its US stores open at least a year.
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NEW YORK/SHANGHAI  - U.S. home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc.  said on Wednesday it had signed an agreement to buy Chinese home improvement chain The Home Way, marking its first foray into retailing in China.
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US retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to issue a sterling-denominated benchmark bond following investor roadshows next week, lead managers for the deal said on Thursday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday it will spend $875 million to take full ownership of its money-losing Japanese subsidiary, Seiyu Ltd., as the U.S. retailer struggles to speed up management changes and reverse slumping performance in the world's second largest economy.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's  biggest retailer, gave ground to Chinese pressure Tuesday and  said it would allow its workers to set up a trade union.
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Wal-Mart announced Monday that it plans to open or expand up to 45 of its flagship discount stores and up to 250 Supercenters in the United States next year.
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Home Depot Inc. announced its first foray into China's booming market on Wednesday with the purchase of a Chinese chain of 12 home improvement stores that modeled itself on its giant American counterpart.
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BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- The US retail giant Wal-mart will open its first outlet in Shanghai next year and also move its headquarters there.
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Wal-Mart Stores, the worldâs No.1 retailer, said the number of its China stores would be lifted by at least 15 new stores with the total of around 45 outlets throughout China.