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- Costco Wholesale Corporation F4Q09 (Qtr End 08/30/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Deborah Weinswig – Citigroup. Deborah Weinswig - Citigroup You obviously went into a lot of details in terms of the U.S. performance. Can you provide some more color on performance outside the U.S.? Richard A. Galanti Sure. In the...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-07
- Costco Same-store Sales Top Estimates
- (Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp COST reported a 5 percent increase in October same-store sales, helped by a weak U.S. dollar that helped push up international sales.Analysts on average were expecting a rise of 4.7 percent in same-store sales, including the impact of fuel prices and foreign exchange, according to...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Costco CFO: Fingers Crossed Consumers Will Spend
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp COST is hoping that consumers are becoming more comfortable making purchases as the No. 1 U.S. warehouse club operator heads into the year-end holiday shopping season."We still are cautious but are keeping our fingers crossed that people are buying a little bit," said...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Costco CFO: Fingers Crossed Consumers Will Spend
- By Martinne Geller and Nicole MaestriNEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp COST is hoping that consumers are becoming more comfortable making purchases as the No. 1 U.S. warehouse club operator heads into the year-end holiday shopping season."We still are cautious but are keeping our fingers crossed that people...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Wal-Mart, Target and Costco Shine as Private Labels Challenge National Brands
- Store brands aren’t going to be pushed around anymore, not after a study by consumer reports puts them in a virtual â€" and sometimes literal -- tie with national brands in their ability to deliver flavor. In a blind taste test, Consumer Reports lined up private label...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Sinegal Spells Out How He Evaluates Costco Clubs and Rival Retailers
- In managing a vast and encompassing retail enterprise, data, meetings and presentations can obscure that fact that a first impression is a critical issue, but that isn’t a reality that’s lost on Jim Sinegal, Costco’s CEO. Sinegal is famous for his visits at both Costco and rival...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Costco Sees Key Product Categories Turn Positive in September
- What encouragement is to be found in September retail sales may best be found in the details, particularly as concerns Costco. Much of its recent conference call that covered fourth quarter and full year results gave over to September numbers that clearly gladdened the man relating them,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Costco Challenges Coke and the Stakes Could Be High
- A Costco that determines it doesn’t need Coca-Cola anymore is in a stronger position with all the branded product companies that supply it. by Mike Duff
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
- Best Credit Cards for You
- Card companies are getting shadier and stingier, and interest rates on plastic are going higher. So now?s the time to be sure you?re holding the best cards for the way you charge. MoneyWatch surveyed the landscape and picked the top cards in several categories. ...
- Articles 2009-10-30
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- Costco is Coming. Woolies Watch Out! | BTalk Australia
- (12min 24) In North America Costco has cornered the market for membership shopping. The company has been experiencing rapid growth and now includes Australia in its international expansion plans. Phil Dobbie talks to Patrick Noone, Costco’s Australia MD, about the launch of a Melbourne store in the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Costco Surrenders Profits To Make a Point
- Although its earnings guidance may alarm Wall Street, Costco’s aggressive pricing in the latest quarter may put it in a better position to withstand the recession. Costco's first quarter opened just as November ended, and aggressive pricing the company instituted then and through December made sense for...
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Costco Keeps Members Enticed, Despite Economy
- Costco earnings might be off in the most recent quarter, but it seems that the promotions that helped drive profits down accomplished something important for the company. For one thing, comparable store sales were up, excluding the effects of fuel and foreign exchange rates, by five percent....
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Costco Gets Out of Home and Back to Business
- Costco has decided that there’s no place for home, at least not as regards its store strategy. The company has decided to close the two Costco Home stores it has been running in Kirkland, Wash., and Tempe, Ariz., as a test of furniture-oriented specialty retail operations. Costco...
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Name dropping at Costco.(Price/Costco Inc. changes name to Costco Companies Inc.)(Brief Article)
- Price Costco has changed its corporate name to Costco Companies Inc. Most of the company's 258 warehouse stores operate under the Costco name. Although some of the warehouses are still identified as Price Club, the purpose of the change is to unif Price...
- Research articles 1997-02-10
- Costco prepares for Home store launch.(Costco Home)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Costco is on schedule to open its new home furnishings format, Costco Home, in the first week in December, said Jim Sinegal, president and ceo. While the average Costco warehouse is 135,000 square feet, the former HomeBase store will be about 100,0 Costco is...
- Research articles 2002-09-23
- Important moments in Costco history. (20th Anniversary).(Brief Article)
- 1983 First Costco warehouse opens in Seattle. 1984 By year-end, there are nine Costcos in five states. 1985 Costco offers public stcok. 1985 Costco opens its first Canadian warehouse, in British ...
- Research articles 2003-06-30
- Conduct Unbecoming at Virtuous Costco?
- Any company that's been known to violate what Stanford business professor Bob Sutton infamously calls The No Asshole Rule -- if it hasn't already been held up to shame in his best-selling book of the same name -- can expect to be shamed on a regular basis in...
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Costco gets to the meat of the problem: Costco Wholesale Corporation utilizes thermo electron's autocheck 9000plus checkweigher to streamline meat packing plant operations.(Food Manufacturing Exclusive)
- Costco Wholesale Industries, a division of the Costco Wholesale Corporation, operates manufacturing businesses, including special food packaging, optical laboratories, meat processing and jewelry distribution. These businesses, as with Costco Whole Costco Wholesale Industries, a division of the Costco Wholesale Corporation, operates manufacturing businesses,...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- THE COSTCO ALTERNATIVE? WALL STREET PREFERS WAL-MART
- In an April 2004 online commentary, Business Week praised Costco's business model but pointed out that Costco's wages cause Walt Street to worry that the company's "operating expenses could get out of hand." How does Costco compare to low-wage WIn an April 2004 online commentary, Business Week praised Costco's business...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- American Express Selling Insurance Via Costco.(Brief Article)
- The American Express Property Casualty companies and Costco Insurance Agency Inc., a subsidiary of Costco Wholesale Corp., have formed a partnership to offer auto and homeowners insurance to Costco members. The American Express Property Casualty companies and Costco Insurance Agency Inc., a subsidiary...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
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