Wal-Mart
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Type: | Discount department store/Public (NYSE: WMT) |
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Founded: | Rogers, Arkansas (1962) |
Headquarters: | Bentonville, Arkansas, USA |
Key people: | Sam Walton (1918–1992), Founder H. Lee Scott, CEO S. Robson Walton, Chairman Thomas Schoewe, CFO |
Industry: | Retail |
Products: | Discount stores, grocery stores, and hypermarkets |
Revenue: | Template:Profit$315.654 billion USD (2006) |
Net income: | Template:Profit$11.231 billion USD (2006) |
Employees: | 1.6 Million (2006) |
Website: | www.walmartstores.com |
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is a company created by Sam Walton in 1962. It is one of the world's largest companies, behind Exxon Mobil. Even so, there are many groups that dislike Wal-Mart because of their influence on local companies, the way they treat their workers, how they deal with welfare, selling mostly foreign made products, and the things they do to the environment. Several debates occur across the nation over Wal-Mart and things it does or does not do to surrounding communities.
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