Data Analysis Of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

9). The president and chief executive officer at the time, William Kellogg, “and two other executives, with the backing of mall developers Herbert and Melvin Simon, led an LBO (leveraged buy-out) to acquire the chain’s 40 stores and a distribution center” (pg. 9). By the time Kohl’s managed to go public in the year 1992, they “had 81 stores in six states, and sales topped $1 billion” (pg. 9).

In 1966, the first Rite Aid store opened in New Rochelle, New York. 1976, they introduced seventy Rite Aid private label products. The next year, 1968, they changed their name, officially, to Rite Aid Corporation and started trading on the American Stock Exchange. Then, two years later, in the beginning of the 1970’s, they moved to the New York Stock Exchange. Again, two years later, 1972, they had been operating 267 stores in 10 states.

In the year of 2013, Walmart has about 2.2 million employees over the world (Our Story, 2014). It is one of most popular corporation in the world. In 1918, Sam Walton was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He was the founder of the Walmart; he opened the first Walmart in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas when he was age of 44 (Sam Walton, 2014). There are five CEO’s in the Walmart Corporation, the first one is Doug McMillon, and he is the President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Executive Management, 2014).

It is owned by the Target Corporations itself and all the receivables go into Target has approximately 1,600 million dollars worth of lines of credits from twenty five different banks, approximately half the worth of the line is used and is due back for payment June 2005, with an extension all the way up to June 2006. The other half of the payment is due June 2008. The expected long term rate of securities rate for October 31 2004 was 8.5 %. Operations For 2004, Wal-Mart earned 256 billion in revenues which from sales alone was 26 billion. The top two reasons for such success in ranking first in retail store market, is because Wal-Mart is convenient globally and so are there prices in the competitive market .

On the first day of the company, more than 80,000 people shopped at the store. In the year 2000, 20 year old Lee H. Scott was named to succeed Mr. David Glass. Lee H. Scott was a low profile Walmart veteran and logistics expert. He continued to build Walmart stores both domestically and internationally. A year after Lee H. Scott taking over, Walmart was named as the largest food retailer in the United States with a grocery sales of $56 billion.

In the 1970s, Kmart continued to expand opening 270 stores in 1976 alone. In 1977, S.S. Kresge changed its name to Kmart because 95% of its sales were coming from that branch. In the 1980s and early 90s, Kmart diversified by adding other retailers such as Walden Book Company which was the number one bookstore chain in the US. The Sports Authority in 1990, 90% stake in OfficeMax and the Borders bookstore in 1992. Also in 1990 Kmart opened its first Kmart Super Center in Medina, Ohio.

In 1988, Wal-Mart super centers opened across the country. In a merely three years from that, Wal-Mart opened their own store in Mexico City, Mexico; making Wal-Mart an international corporation. Not even sixty years has past, and yet, Wal-Mart is over-powering our country. "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the world's largest retailer, with $285.2 billion in sales in the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2005. The company employs 1.6 million associates worldwide through more than 3,700 facilities in the United States and more than 2,400 units in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.

By 1977, nearly 95% of the S. S. Kresge sales were generated by Kmart so the company officially decided to change its name to Kmart Corporations. In 1991, Kmart opened the first supercenter in Medina, Ohio offering a full-service grocery area. In 1996, a complete redesign of Kmart was launched, changing its name to Big Kmart [or BigK] and in 1999, Kmart launch a new internet presence, named bluelight.com [now known as kmart.com]. In 2002, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (Corpor... ... middle of paper ... ...e cooperation.

is the world's largest retailer with $466 billion in sales for the 2012 fiscal year. Walmart Stores Inc. includes Walmart Supercenters, discount stores, Neighborhood Markets and SAM'S Club warehouses. Walmart employs more than 2.1 million associates from under 60 different banners in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and the UK. In 2007, Walmart became No. 1 on the Fortune 500 List and in 2003 and 2004 Walmart was named 'Most Admired Company in America' by Fortune Magazine.

WAL-MART STORES INC. History Founded by Sam Walton in 1962 as a discount city store in Bentonville, Wal-mart was incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on October 31, 1969 as an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. Within five years, the company expanded to 24 stores across Arkansas and reached $12.6 million in sales.Wal-Mart further expands outside America and operates in Mexico as Walmex, in the UK as ASDA, and in Japan as Seiyu. It has wholly-owned operations in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the UK.Presently listed on NYSE, Wal-Mart began trading stock as a publicly-held company on October 1, 1972. According to the 2007 Fortune Global 500, Wal-Mart is the world's largest public corporation by revenue and the largest private employer in the world and the fourth largest utility or commercial employer, trailing the Chinese army, the British National Health Service, and the Indian Railways.Wal-Mart reached a sales milestone in 1979 with 276 stores and 21,000 employees, it reached $1 billion in sales. Having only been in existence for 17 years, the company achieves the quickest ever ascent to the $1 billion milestone.Through out the 1980s, Wal-Mart grows rapidly and by its 25th anniversary in 1987 there were 1,198 stores with sales of $15.9 billion and 200,000 associates.