Walmart To Label Healthier Food As 'Great For You' – Reuters Walmart (Canada) Overhaul Takes Aim At Target – Montreal Gazette Is 'Made In America' Back In Style? – Time Walmart Names Foran As New China CEO – Reuters Somebody Got Shot (WalmartHelp Exclusive) – Bob Connolly, Executive Vice President Merchandising, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (retired) [...]
Top 10 Walmart Headlines – Feb 6, 2012
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Walmart To Start Sharing Its Retail Data – New York Post Walmart Puts U.S. Marketing Under Merchandising – Reuters Walmart’s Wrong-Headed Re-Organization – Forbes Walmart Moves Greeters, Sam Walton Rolls Over In Grave – Forbes Walmart Rockets From 15th To Third In EPA Green Power Rankings – Environmental Leader Companies May Oust Suppliers Over Environment [...]
Top 10 Walmart Headlines – January 30, 2012
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Walmart Puts U.S. Marketing Under Merchandising– Reuters How Walmart Is Changing China– The Atlantic Walmart Pulls Greeters From Night Shift– Bloomberg JCPenney Gets Rid Of Hundreds Of Sales– Wall Street Journal Walmart May Be Interested In Carrefour Stores– Bloomberg Walmart Self-Serve Checks Out Of the N.S.– Chronicle Herald Suspension Of FDI In Retail a Pause-Sharma [...]
Street Legal Racecar Hits the Roads Across Northwest Arkansas – KFSM
January 3, 2012 Via Leave a Comment
Street Legal Concepts based in Northwest Arkansas had a bright and speedy idea, they wanted to buy a Sprint Cup car, and make it street legal. Well that’s just what they did. “We realized that there were lots of promotions where companies buy a retired NASCAR and roll it off the truck, and say look [...]
Top Walmart News of 2011
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We published over 2,300 Walmart business stories this year. Based on total pageviews, here are the 10 most popular Walmart News stories from 2011: Walmart Chief: ‘We Got It Wrong’ – Inside Retailing Walmart To Close New York Apparel Office In Focus On Basics – BusinessWeek Is Walmart Following In the Footprints Of K-Mart? – [...]
iFrogz Reports Continued Success In Wal-Mart Sidekick Displays – MarketWatch
December 20, 2011 Via Leave a Comment
iFrogz by ZAGG ZAGG -0.96% , a company dedicated to the manufacture of innovative digital audio, mobile phone and computing accessories, has expanded its product offerings at 1,500 Wal-Mart(R) stores nationwide on four unique sidekick displays. The vertical displays represent an increased presence in Wal-Mart for iFrogz ( www.iFrogz.com ), which first appeared in stores [...]
Las Vegas Market Launches Exhibitor-Focused Webinar Series
November 17, 2011 Via Leave a Comment
Las Vegas Market (LMV) has launched a new series of webinars designed to assist tenants and exhibitors in planning for the upcoming Las Vegas Market, January 30-Feb. 3, 2012, as well as educational sessions for growing their business. During these webinars, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about tools to reach Las Vegas Market [...]
The Evolution Of Product Design Comes to NW Arkansas
November 15, 2011 Via Leave a Comment
Consumer product design is not easy, or at least it has not been easy until now. For those smaller corporations that don’t have multimillion dollar engineering departments and on-staff engineers, a slow and laborious process of relying on factory support for product creation has created a design phase that takes months and months and is [...]
Learn to Speak “Walmart” in Twelve Hours or Less
November 9, 2011 Via Leave a Comment
8th & Walton has created Fast Start, a new series of five courses dedicated to helping supplier teams on-board new hires, as well as training recent graduates or anyone interested in a career change involving Walmart or one of their many suppliers. Courses place an emphasis on understanding Walmart’s rich history, culture and current key [...]
8th & Walton Partners with the Mexican Government
November 8, 2011 Via 1 Comment
8th & Walton continues to prove to be pioneers in the retail supplier education business. The company has partnered with the Secretary of Economy in Mexico and Coparmex Mexico City East on the retail program “Compra por México”. This new supplier program will allow Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to build relationships with retailers and help [...]
