BNET Industries
Market Cap:$200.5B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$378.7B
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
Headquartered in Bentonville AR, the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) employs about 1.9 million people in nearly 5,000 stores in 15 countries including the US, the UK, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, South Korea and Mexico. The Company generates $312 billion in sales. Wal-Mart operates under three different retail formats: Discount Store - Wal-Mart, Grocery and Drug store combo - Neighborhood Market and Super center - Sam's Club. Wal-Mart recently won a lawsuit in the California May-Carmen Bike Safety Case.
Number of Employees 2,100,000
Contact Information
702 SW Eighth Street
Bentonville, Arkansas 72716
(479) 273-4000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code All Other General Merchandise Stores: 452990
Recent Events
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Wal-Mart may open 40 more stores in India
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Minority computer supplier lands major deal with Walmart
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Suit Claims That Redbox Charges Late Fees Despite Promise Not to
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1 Bessemer Division approves AG King’s motion to dismiss DA’s suit; four other cases await...
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Owning Wal-Mart: Taking the Vito Corleone Approach
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Ex-Alderman-at-Large Pressly seeks to return to city position
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UPDATE 3-Wal-Mart keeps conservative U.S. store growth plan
News & Analysis
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Beaver Street Fisheries reels in RFID: program so successful company cited as top supplier by Wal-Mart.(Information Technology: RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION)
- 2007-01-01
When Wal-Mart announced its phased RFID implementation initiative, requiring the top 100 suppliers to apply RFID labels to shipments starting in January 2005, Beaver Street Fisheries stepped into high gear. Although Beaver Street, a fish and When...
Top 10 best RFID practices: lessons learned from successful RFID implementation with Wal-Mart.(Radio Frequency Identification)
- 2006-07-01
Wal-Mart expects its next 300 largest suppliers to tag their shipments at the pallet level by the end of 2007. To help those facing compliance mandates, Zebra offers the following 10 best practices from successful RFID implementations, featuring Wa Wal-Mart expects its next 300...
Radio Beacon: RFID Ripples Through
- 2006-04-01
While the requirement to include radio frequency identification tags in shipments affects only customers of big retailers such as Wal-Mart, the impact will spread to the suppliers' suppliers, says Dale Jeffries, president of Radio Beacon.Right now, RFID While the requirement to include radio frequency identification tags in shipments affects...
To RFID or not; PRWs are undecided: the PRW industry proves to be a mixed bag when it comes to RFID adoption.(radio frequency identification)(public refrigerated warehouses)
- 2006-01-01
When Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, AR, announced in June 2004 that is was going to require its top suppliers to use RFID technology, the retail and food industries were abuzz. After all, where Wal-Mart goes, so goes everyone else. When Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville,...
TESTS BACK WAL-MART'S FAITH IN RFID.(Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to use Radio frequency identification)
- 2005-11-28
Byline: Barbara Thau Byline: Barbara Thau
Goldman Sachs sinks spurs into Zebra; Now No. 2 shareholder in bar code tech firm.(Goldman Sachs Group Inc. acquires Zebra Technologies Corp.)(Wal-Mart Stores Inc. technology application of radio frequency identification)(Brief Article)
- 2005-11-21
Byline: H. LEE MURPHY One of the best-known names on Wall Street is making a sizable wager on Vernon Hills-based Zebra Technologies Corp. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $139 million in the third quarter to add 3.1 million shares of Zebra, bringing...
Kuehne + Nagel, Omron Electronics and Avicon have announced the successful implementation of the radio frequency identification compliance infrastructure and business processes for Omron Healthcare in support of Wal-Mart's electronic product code mandat
- 2005-10-01
Kuehne + Nagel, Omron Electronics and Avicon have announced the successful implementation of the radio frequency identification RFID compliance infrastructure and business processes for Omron Healthcare in support of Wal-Mart's electronic product code EPC mandates. Shipments of Omron Healthcare's medical devices have been tagged with EPC tags at the case...
Tatung takes RFID beyond compliance.(Best Practices)(Radio Frequency Identification)(Brief Article)
- 2005-01-01
Computer-product contract manufacturer Tatung Company of America is using Shipcom Wireless's RFID technology to tag cases bound for Wal-Mart. In addition to meeting Wal-Mart's RFID requirements, the RFID ... Computer-product contract manufacturer Tatung Company of America is using Shipcom Wireless's RFID technology to...
Wal-Mart RFID deadline won't be met: top 100 suppliers.(radio frequency identification)(Brief Article)
- 2005-01-01
By now, the top 100 suppliers to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. were supposed to be shipping all their products with RFID tags at the case and pallet level to three of the retailing giant's distribution centers in North Texas, but that deadline now appears t ...
Wal-Mart shows flexibility with RFID mandate.(Manufacturing News)(Radio Frequency Identification Equipment)(Wal-Mart Stores Inc.)(Brief Article)
- 2004-12-01
The public discussion of the status of the Wal-Mart RFID project has been misleading, concludes New England-based ARC Advisory Group after surveying 24 companies that were actively investing in the EPC RFID (Electronic Product Code Radio Frequency Id The public discussion of the status of the...
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