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Because McAuliffe's Ace Hardware in Marysville, Ohio, is surrounded by big-box stores--Lowe's, Home Depot, Menards, Walmart and more--the store's employees knew they'd need to find a way to stand out [...]

More and more companies now recognize that creating a sustainable supply chain is more that just the right thing to do--it's a requisite to business success. Sustainability today resembles the [...]

Introduction Logistics as a management discipline originated in the military and later branched into the commercial sector as business logistics. Now, the hottest topic in the commercial sector is supply [...]

When retailer Brian Young looks out of the front window of his store, beyond the parking lot and across a busy side street stands a daunting figure--Walmart. Only 45 feet [...]

The U.S. military has long used various business models in managing its bureaucracy and budget and planning its force. During the 1960s, however, the Pentagon used a business model extensively [...]

The following individuals are lobbyists registered with the Indiana Lobby Registration Commission. Phone numbers and e-mail addresses were added by IBI Media staff to render the list more useful. Abel, [...]

YOUR EMPLOYEES MAY BE FORGIVEN IF THEY SEE A DEVIL BEHIND every rock when it comes to the topic of 401(k) fees. These fees--usually associated with mutual funds, often hidden [...]

A study uses an industrial organization entry framework to empirically investigate Wal-Mart's expansion into food retailing through its store conversion strategy. Findings reveal that Wal-MartEs strategy is targeting largely populated areas with low population density and with a significant number of people receiving food stamps, and suggest that it may have to alter strategic decisions when it saturates local markets and increases store conversion rates.

Hurricane Katrina One of the lasting images of Hurricane Katrina is the mass of people outside the Superdome asking for water from National Guard troops who had none to give. [...]

The License! Global Top 100 licensing companies accounted for almost $160 billion in retail sales of licensed products out of the total market of almost $192 billion worldwide. In a [...]

[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 [...]

For decades, Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. served as a pillar in Southern grocery retail. Founded in 1923, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based retailer--in its prime--operated 1,000 stores throughout Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OBAMA, CLINTON, MCCAIN ... WAL-MART? The nation's largest private employer sometimes sounds like it's running for President these days. It's making sweeping commitments to reduce America's energy use […]

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 policy debate on whether to strengthen or to remove the legal barriers between banking and commerce has paid little attention to what the practical effects of removing the barriers would be. To help answer this question, this article, the first part of a two-part study, provides an overview of the potential gains of integrating banking and commerce. Economic theory, the authors note, suggests that joint corporate ownership of banks and commercial firms has several potential benefits, including economies of scale and scope, increased internal capital markets, and diversification. Commercial firms could also enjoy a significant reduction in funding costs if affiliation with a bank extended the federal safety net for banks to cover the commercial firms' liabilities. But some benefits are already available without common ownership. Moreover, common ownership may also result in some disadvantages, such as significant diseconomies of scale and scope. Actual experience provides better insight than theory can about the relative magnitudes of the benefits and costs of cross-industry combinations. U.S. experience with limited openings between banking and nonbank activities suggests that the most common combinations were banks with nonbank financial firms, relationships that were authorized by a 1999 reform act. Foreign experience and U.S. conglomerates of nonbank firms in different industries fail to provide compelling evidence for large-scale combinations of banking and commercial firms. JEL classification: G21, G34, G28 Keywords: banking and commerce, The application by Wal-Mart in 2005 to acquire a type of bank called an industrial loan company (ILC) sparked a renewed interest in the issue of mixing banking and commerce. [...]

The efforts of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to establish a less-than-truckload network for the distribution of perishable commodities are described.

REGIONAL TRENDS NEW DEVELOPMENTS: a Wal-Mart distribution center opened in January, creating 800 jobs, and another for Sysco will add about 300 in Alachua County. David Ramsey, research-marketing manager for [...]

T'was a holly, jolly Christmas for many of the nation's retailers, whom the holidays brought an unexpected gift: news of sales declines, merchandising stumbles and executive chaos at Wal-Mart. Sardonic [...]

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 analysis of the impact of product pricing on the employment policies of retail stores, based on the comparison of business practices of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp., is presented.

The effect of the business practices of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., on the trends of the management of retail stores in the United States is described. The environmental and economic aspects of the resultant changes in consumer behavior are discussed .

Shippers are always on the lookout for ways to speed product from source through supply chains to the consumer, and Wal-Mart's 'Remix' distribution strategy is going to give its vendors [...]

Customers visiting the Eat'n Park in Streetsboro, Ohio, know just where they're going. The women dressed in afternoon-shopping clothes, stopping in for a snack or turn left from the lobby [...]

1-2 Punch >> One thing about supply-chain management: It's never dull. Five years ago, most suppliers hadn't heard of RFID and thought of Mexico as the low-cost-labor nation that was […]

Organized labor, feminists, et al. criticized Wal-Mart's business practices despite Fortune having named Wal-Mart as the 'most admired company in America' for 2003 and 2004. The results of Wal-Mart's stakeholder survey on the nonmarket strategies of Wal-Mart to deal with these criticisms, which could impact Wal-Mart's future growth and financial success, are examined.