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• 2,100,000 Employees• Head quaters – Bentonville,

Arkansas, Usa

• Revenue – 408,214,000,000 (0.6% from 2008)

• Profits - $14,335,000,000 ( 7% from 2008)

• Assets - $170,706,000,000• Stockholder’s Equity - $73,

236,000,000 (12.17%)

• Fortune 500 General Merchandisers

• Walmart #1• Target #30• Sears Holding #48• Macy’s#103• J.C. Penney #133

• Hottest stock in Dow Jones industrial average in 2008

• Growth in sales of over 30 billion

• Growth in international stores not in U.S. (U.S. sales 6%)

• China alone added 28 stores

• Started by Sam Walton in 1962 – Walton’s Five and Dime

• Within 5 years expansion to 24 stores across Arkansas with $12.6 million in sales

• By 1987 (25th year anniversary) – 1,198 stores with sales of $15.9 billion & 200,000 employers

• 1990’s – toy sales surpassed Toys R Us

• Started overseas stores in South America, Canada, Europe

• 1994 Walmart Acquired 144 Wolcoo Stores across Canada

• 2002 first time on Fortune 500 list with revenues of $219.8 billion and profits of $6.7 billion

• Has been on list every year

• Diffusion• Christmas• coffee• family movie night• family movie night

Environmental Initiatives

• 2005 Walmart announced it would implement several environmental measures to increase energy efficiency

• $500 million a year to increase fuel efficiency in Wal-Mart’s truck fleet by 25% over 3 years and double it within 10, greenhouse gas emissions by 20% in 7 years, energy use at stores by 30%, and solid waste from U.S. stores and Sam’s Clubs by 25% in 3 years.


• CEO Lee Scott said that Walmart's goal was to use only renewable energy sources and produce 0 waste.

• The company also designed 3 new experimental stores in with wind turbines, photovoltaic solar panels, biofuel-capable boilers, water-cooled refrigerators, and xeriscape gardens


• becoming the biggest seller of organic milk

• biggest buyer of organic cotton in the world

• reducing packaging and energy costs

• Walmart also spent nearly a year working with outside consultants to discover the company's total environmental impact and find where they could improve


• They discovered, for example, that by eliminating excess packaging on their toy line Kid Connection, they could not only save $2.4 million a year in shipping costs but also 3,800 trees and a million barrels of oil


• Walmart has also recently created its own electric company - Texas Retail Energy - and plans to supply its stores with cheap power purchased at wholesale prices

• the company expects to save $15 million annually and also lays the groundwork and infrastructure to sell electricity to Texas consumers in the future

Labour Initiatives• March 20, 2009, Walmart

announced that it is paying a combined $933.6 million in bonuses to every full and part time hourly worker

• An additional $788.8 million in profit sharing contributions

• hundreds of millions of dollars in merchandise discounts and contributions to the employees' stock purchase plan is also included in this plan

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