Wal-Mart 2Q profit rises 3.6 pct on cost-cutting
Recalls this week: Toy rattles, baby monitors
NEW DELHI - Two of the world's top retailers, Walmart and Carrefour, vying for a cut in India's organised retail pie, have asked the government to allow up to 51 percent foreign investment in multi-brand retail.
JALANDHAR - Bharti Walmart is planning to open 10 to 15 cash-and-carry wholesale stores over the next three years and hoping that the government will open up multi-brand retail to foreign investment.
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- Coca-Cola’s 2nd-qtr net income climbs 16 percent as it sells more drinks
- Product recalls this week include jewelry, go-carts, play tents, drop-side cribs
- Tent tops that attach to play yards recalled after 2-year-old died when his neck was trapped
- Johnson & Johnson pain reliever sales plunge, as eighth consumer product recall is announced
- Bangladesh clothing show to boost Britain garment ties
- Chicago City Council approves building the city’s 2nd Walmart store
- Feds recall jewelry kids get for free from doctor and dentist offices due to toxic cadmium
- Summary Box: Wal-Mart names Bill Simon president, CEO of US operations
- Wal-Mart says COO Simon to lead US operations, Castro-Wright becoming head of global sourcing
- Unions, Wal-Mart reach deal wages that could bring second Walmart to city of Chicago
- Walmart becomes issue in Ill. governor’s race; Republican candidate Brady supports expansion
- Ornery goat prompts Alaska school official to invent milker that’s selling well on Internet
- ‘It takes action’: Tea party backers explain their journey from enraged to engaged
- Mint oil prices rebound, but few small mint farmers see a future with foreign competition
- An American burger from Beirut? You can sort it out in Dearborn, where Mideast meets Midwest
- Wal-Mart tells shareholders of global push, but short on specifics on how to fix sales at home
- Wal-Mart board approves new $15 billion stock buyback program
- In annual shareholders extravaganza, Wal-Mart acknowledges sales slide, pledges improvements
- Wal-Mart bets on $1 ketchup, cheap soda, in campaign to re-ignite sales
- 3 people, 3 oh-so-good splurges to ease frugal fatigue in still fragile economic times
- Communists ask government not to allow FDI in multi-brand retail
- Walmart recalling GE coffee makers after complaints of injuries, overheating, smoke, fires
- AP IMPACT: Wal-Mart pulls Miley Cyrus jewelry over high levels of toxic cadmium found by AP
- Governor’s creative veto will put auto title lenders out of business in Wisconsin
- AP IMPACT: Wal-Mart’s Miley Cyrus jewelry has high levels of toxic cadmium, tests show
- AP: Wal-Mart still selling Miley Cyrus jewelry it knows has high levels of toxic metal cadmium
- Cuomo: Store sold Fort Drum soldiers grossly overpriced electronics, gouged on credit
- Wal-Mart finds itself in not-so-sweet spot as US sales squeezed; overseas sales boost profit
- Wal-Mart’s 1Q net income rises 10 percent; offers muted outlook for second quarter
- Wal-Mart to give $2 billion in food, grants for hunger relief over next 5 years
- Wal-Mart to spend $2 billion on food donations, grants for hunger relief in next 5 years
- Plant experts recommend farmers, gardeners take steps to avoid another tomato blight outbreak
- Court: Wal-Mart to face class action lawsuit alleging discrimination against women employees
- Shoppers hand retailers big March sales gains; earlier Easter also a boon
- Bharti Walmart launches supply chain system in Punjab
- Blacks must leave store, NJ Walmart announcer says, upsetting customers; company investigates
- World’s Top 20 Richest People: Forbes list
- Wholesale club operators see steady but modest gains against grocers
- GameStop chief financial officer Smith resigns to join Walmart International
- Wal-Mart Stores to create 6,500 jobs, open 35 to 40 super centers in Canada in 2010
- Target’s 4Q profit rises 53.7 percent; tight inventory controls, stronger holiday sales help
- For those in a tight spot, costly loans and cards still remain
- Summary Box: Stronger manufacturing news lifts stocks; DJIA up nearly 300 on the week
- Wal-Mart’s 4Q profit rises 22 pct; company’s US namesake stores see sales fall for first time
- Wal-Mart’s 4Q profit rises 22 percent, but key sales measure falls for 3rd straight quarter
- France’s Carrefour rules out Brazil exit, plans investment
- Summary Box: Retail sales post moderate January increase but consumers still face headwinds
- Retail sales post better-than-expected 0.5 percent January gain, raising hopes about recovery
- Wal-Mart to cut 300 jobs at Arkansas headquarters in effort to cut duplication
- Regulators announce recall of cadmium-laced kids’ jewelry from Walmart; Disney bans the metal
- Feds: Recall of ‘Princess and Frog’ jewelry due to high levels of toxic heavy metal cadmium
- Wal-Mart Stores combines some US divisions, reorganizes geographically
- Wal-Mart Stores cuts about 11,200 Sam’s Club jobs nationwide as it outsources product sampling
- Cellu Tissue Holdings shares dropping in IPO debut after offering priced below expectations
- 2010 IPO season debuts Friday with a busy 6 deals, but analysts brace for disappointments
- Buffett-linked IPO grabbing most interest as 2010 season debuts this week with 6 deals
- US consumer safety chief warns parents to take cheap metal jewelry away from their children
- Another chain pulls cadmium-tainted kids’ jewelry as Chinese gov’t says it will investigate
- Claire’s jewelry chain stops selling kids’ charm bracelet cited in AP report on cadmium
- Chinese government will look into cadmium in kids’ jewelry after Walmart pulls items in US
- Chin official says govt will look into cadmium in kids jewelry after Walmart pulls items in US
- Regulators warn on Chinese imports; Walmart pulls kids’ jewelry cited in AP report
- US consumer regulators launch campaign against cadmium in children’s jewelry from China
- Holiday shoppers spend a little more, but weaker gift card sales may mean rough January
- Deal-hunting shoppers return to malls as retailers launch post-Christmas shopping push
- After Christmas Sale: Best Buy, Target, WalMart Offer Huge Discounts
- Stores get last-minute holiday sales surge, but fate of season remains uncertain
- Malls, stores bustling on Christmas Eve as shoppers buy last-minute gifts
- Snow halts travel, shopping across the East, hundreds of thousands without power
- Snow storm socks East Coast, knocking out power and causing traffic accidents
- About 100 stranded motorists in Va. taken to shelters as snow storm socks East Coast
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- Bio Box: Walmart.com CEO Raul Vazquez
- Walmart.com CEO, author of fall book and DVD price war, aims to dethrone Amazon and rule Web
- As stores plan better and Americans spend a little more, no need for super-deep discounts
- Best Buy 3Q profit jumps, but shares fall as company says 4Q gross margin will be lower
- Analysts expect strong 3rd-quarter results from Best Buy
- Bharti Retail to expand operations
- Newt Gingrich, in Mississippi, calls Obama jobs forum ‘an enormous disappointment’
- Online retailers rev up deals to keep momentum, but ‘Cyber Monday’ just another shopping day
- Holiday shopping season off to mildly encouraging start, but shoppers focus on practical items
- At a clinic in SC, a WWII vet’s struggle for treatment of PTSD and cancer ends with a gunshot
- Stores, malls report bigger crowds as a critical holiday shopping season opens
- Ready, set, shop: Stores open doors to crowds for traditional start of holiday buying season
- Ready, set, shop: Stores open doors to throngs for traditional start of holiday buying season
- A year after fatal stampede at NY Walmart, Black Friday gets a safety makeover
- Black Friday in more practical times: Stores mark down the socks along with the HDTVs
- Early winners for holiday shopping season: electronic book readers, hot video games, the snood
- On the Money: Before you buy holiday gifts, know the return policies
- Retailers stretch out online deals throughout holiday weekend, plan more for Cyber Monday
- ALL BUSINESS: Must-have toy, Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters, tells a lot about state of the economy
- AP News in Brief
- Wal-Mart offers deep price cuts on popular toys, video games ahead of Black Friday
- Target expected to report 3rd-qtr profit rose after cuts in inventory, other costs
