SHRUTI DESAI

Founder of Walmart

Sam Walton did not invent retailing, he simply changed the business model and way of doing business to make it a much more profitable venture.

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• Headquarter:- Bentonville,Arkansas, United States.

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Chairman CEO & President

S. Robson Walton Doug McMillon

Key People

History

• Sam's focus was on selling products at low prices to get higher-volume sales at a lower-profit margin.

• Sales increased 45 percent in his first year of ownership to $105,000 in annual revenue, which increased to $140,000 the next year and $175,000 the year after that.

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Incorporation Incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. on

October 31, 1969.The first stock split occurred in May 1971

at a market price of $47Walmart opened its first Texas store in

Mount Pleasant on November 11, 1975In 2000, H. Lee Scott became President

and CEOeffect"mom and pop" stores.

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Wal-Mart rules the

Fortune 500.

Worlds largest company

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How can walmart control the global

Walmart operations are organised into three divisions :-

• Walmart stores US• SAM’s club• Walmart international

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Enterprise.

Walmart stores US

• $258 billion, or 63.8 percent of total sales for financial year 2010

Walmart Discount Stores Walmart Supercenter Walmart Market Walmart Express

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Retail formats:-

Sam’s club• Sam's Club stores are

"membership" stores and most customers buy annual memberships.

• Their old slogan was “We're in Business for Small Business” which changed to "Savings Made Simple“

• Walmart also operates more than 100 international Sam's Clubs in Brazil, China, Mexico

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Walmart International• Walmart's international comprise 4,263

stores and 660,000 workers in 15 countries outside the United States

• the company is the largest private employer in the U.S. and Mexico, and one of the largest in Canada.

• In the financial year 2010, Walmart's international division sales were $100 billion, or 24.7 percent of total sales.

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It started its international operations with its

entry in Mexico in 1991.

It formed a joint venture with Grupo Cifra SA de

CV (Cifra), a well-established retail chain in

Mexico. 

It  fine-tune its strategies to suit the Mexican

customer.

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Successful joint venturesEntered Mexico with a JV

2006 :-  It formed a joint venture with Bharti

Enterprises, Inc.

 2009:- Wal-Mart started doing business in India for

the first time.

Indian Wal-Mart is a wholesale business.

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Entered India with a JV

1990 :- Real estate prices in Japan declined.

Prompting many foreign retailers to enter

the country.

Wal-Mart started exploring the Japanese

market in 1997. 

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Entered in Japan:-

Future planning of walmart•Wal-Mart is planning to open a new distribution centre in Mankato, in late 2015, creating about 300 jobs.•Global expansion is the mantra of Walmart for future.•Wal-Mart plans to hire 100,000 veterans over five years•Walmart is moving ahead with a plan to open hundreds of small-format stores.

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