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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE POWER LIST DEBUTED IN 2006 with 71 profiles. This fourth installment has own to include 192 people who run the largest or most influential companies and institutions [...]

ARKANSAS BUSINESS' ANNUAL POWER LIST IS BACK THIS WEEK and more powerful than ever. The Power List draws primarily from the nearly 50 businessrelated lists that appear in this publication [...]

THE POWER LIST, WHICH DEBUTED in Arkansas Business a year ago, returns this week. The Power List draws primarily from the nearly 50 business-related lists that appear in this publication [...]

THE TRADITIONAL STORE THAT MADE Wal-Mart a retail giant is fading away. For the past decade, Wal-Mart has either closed its discount stores and opened a Supercenter in the shadow [...]

AS WAL-MART SUPERcenters are about to storm into California, grocery store chains and unions are bracing themselves for possible casualties. Next month, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville will open its [...]

MANY OF THE LARGEST publicly traded companies headquartered in Arkansas -- including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville, the world's largest company -- are still 'family' businesses in a very real [...]

ON A SUMMER EVENING IN 1984, in the days when Wal-Mart stores still closed at night and opened in the morning, the manager of the Stuttgart store was demonstrating closing [...]

What target has done for Merona and Cherokee, Wal-Mart plans to do for Sasson and GE small appliances. A new licensing agreement with General Electric and the purchase of the [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans gas stations at every one of its 480 Sam's Club stores and at 200 more Wal-Mart stores in the next year, according to The Wall [...]

Since Wal-Mart Stores Inc. accounts for about 8 percent of retail sales in the United States, 'things can get a lot worse before they get bad at Wal-Mart,' the company's [...]

IF IT WEREN'T FOR GOVERNment jobs, Wal-Mart and chickens, Arkansas would be in a world of hurt. You won't see that statement on any chamber of commerce Web sites, and [...]

BERLIN -- ON A STREET named for the antithesis of capitalism, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fights for a toehold in the land of Aldi. Across Karl-Marx-Strasse from the two-story, 107,000-SF Wal-Mart [...]

The competition to land a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. e-business account just got serious. E-commerce firms Qwest Communications International Inc. of Denver and Jump Technology Services Inc. of Tulsa have both [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it will shut down its meat-cutting, operations in Jacksonville and 179 other stores in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas and sell only prepackaged [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Exide Corp. of Reading, Pa., have reached an agreement to test market the Orbital Select automotive battery at Selected Wal-Mart locations. The Orbital Select batteries, which [...]

SINCE 2002, THE WAL-MART Foundation has been on a giving spree. Between 2002 and 2005, the Bentonville foundation has handed out more than $590 million in donations. From 1998-2001, the [...]

SOME PEOPLE WHO READ Don Soderquist's new book ask him if the Wal-Mart corporate lawyers got hold of it and whacked out all the secrets. 'It couldn't be that simple,' [...]

VEGAS PLAYING CARDS, BETTY Boop calendars and a dozen different Bible covers line one shelf of the Sam's Club warehouse store in Springdale. A couple of aisles away, the restaurant [...]

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas 'From day one I said, and probably everyday that I've been here, we're in this [...]

39 President and COO Redman & Associates Rogers Rodney Redman remembers where he started: unloading TVs from the back of a Wal-Mart Stores truck. 'It was a great learning experience,' [...]

IT'S A HIGHLIGHT OF THE Wal-Mart legend: Ten years after founding his revolutionary discount chain and two years after the relatively slow-starting company became a publicly traded entity, Bentonville merchant [...]

NEW YORK--Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it was accelerating its expansion of small stores as it looks to compete with a variety of rivals, from dollar stores to drug chains. The [...]

Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, who last year opened Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville to international acclaim, will receive an honorary degree from the University of Arkansas, the [...]

A relative newcomer to Arkansas' accounting world and the naming of the first female managing partner at one of the state's largest firms constitute some of the sector's big news [...]

Its Founder Is Gone, But Analysts Expect A Bright Future For Wal-Mart Retail analysts say Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Walton was one of a kind. American retailing, they say, [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since 1990, AIRMA Design has been providing companies in the aerospace, military, telecom, industrial, commercial, medical and consumer markets with electronic product design, product development and manufacturing services. [...]

I WISH WE COULD COMPILE the total number of jobs, the total payroll and the total office space for all the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. vendors who have set up operations [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to open 12-15 new stores in China this year The company, which has more than 5,000 worldwide, opened its 46th store in China last week in [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will move many nonprescription cold and allergy medications behind pharmacy counters by June because the products include pseudoephedrine, an ingredient used to make the highly addictive stimulant [...]

IN WAL-MART COUNTRY, SAM Walton and others of his era often used sayings such as 'that dog won't hunt' when declaring a business idea futile or unfounded. That same phrase [...]

LAST WEEK'S BEST NEWSroom one-liner: Sources in Bentonville say the world's largest retailer is changing its corporate motto from 'Always Low Prices' to 'Always Mo' Crises.' It does seem that [...]

Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., last week criticized leaders of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and others for spreading confusion about Wal-Mart to advance 'financial and [...]

I WAS BORN SUSPICIOUS, AND lately I've been feeling like I might slip right over the edge into that world occupied by people who think LBJ assassinated JFK and Bill [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said same-store sales for the four weeks ended Nov. 26 were up 0.7 percent when compared with the similar period of the previous year. On Nov. 27, [...]

MANY AMERICANS JUST can't take a real vacation. Even when they do leave the office, they often take the office with them. Cell phones, laptop computers and Palm Pilots can [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has withdrawn its sponsorship of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation's campaign to reopen the Statue of Liberty, according to AdAge.com. On April 5 The New York [...]

AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST now living in England contacted me recently for help in putting together an article on Wal-Mart and its transforming effect on northwest Arkansas. I pointed her to [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has formally opened its online music store, offering songs at 88 cents each, undercutting rivals Apple Computer Inc., Roxio Inc. and RealNetworks Inc. by a dime. In [...]

NEWS REPORTS IN RECENT months chronicle a kinder, gentler persona in the legal department at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Instead of spending $10,000 to save $100, the retail giant is actually [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has it increased its quarterly dividend by 4 cents to 13 cents, payable April 15 to shareholders of record as of March 19. The increase will [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is in a brouhaha with five St. Louis-area radio stations and a local union in contract negotiations with grocery stores. It seems Sam's boys demanded the stations--including [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is opening a new office to identify certain U.S. products that might appeal to the company's customers in other countries. The new division will be called 'GP [...]

ALTHOUGH ITS RISE TO BE the largest company in the nation and the world has created some animosity from rivals, we congratulate Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Starting out just 40 [...]

KMART'S MANAGEMENT DEcided to file for bankruptcy-court protection on Jan. 22. A few observers lamented the seemingly sudden decline of a once-proud company. To me, however, Kmart's sad ending was [...]

FOR THE PAST YEAR, WAL-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville has been testing four different self-checkout scanning systems in stores across the United States, said Tom Williams, a spokesman for the [...]

NO ONE COULD HAVE PREdicted five years ago that two corporate giants like Kmart Corp. and Enron Corp. would be bankrupt within months of each other. But Enron, like so [...]

'Behind the Berlin Wal-Mart,' which summed up Arkansas Business' Jan. 22 look at the American retailing icon's struggle on a street named for Karl Marx. Runner-up: '501 Will Shrink to [...]

With the restructuring of its international division, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. seems to be giving more day-to-day autonomy to the company's operations in other countries while reinforcing its buying clout as [...]

The second-richest woman in America is now apparently the second-richest Texan. Alice Walton, the only daughter (she has three brothers) of the late Sam Walton, has acquired a Texas driver's [...]