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Business couldn't be better at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Sales continue to increase quarter-over-quarter, and annual earnings-per-share have steadily climbed at the retailing giant for more than a decade. So why […]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported net sales for the four-week period ending Nov. 24 of $16.4 billion, an increase of 9.4 percent over the $15.0 billion in the similar period last [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR, reported single-day sales for Nov. 24 topped $1.1 billion at its domestic Wal-Mart Stores, Supercenters and Neighborhood [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported single-day sales for Nov. 24 -- the day after Thanksgiving -- of more than $1.1 billion at the company's domestic Wal-Mart Stores, Supercenters and Neighborhood [...]

BENTONVILLE, AR -- In a key and disconcerting barometer of what's going on at retail, and how the all-important holiday quarter is shaping up, third-quarter profits at Wal-Mart inched up [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. achieved solid sales and income increases in the third quarter, but looked positively sterling when compared to its retail competitors. The Bentonville chain, the world's largest retailer, [...]

BENTONVILLE, AR -- As an industry bellwether, WalMart delivered some distressing news last week when it advised investors to expect low comp-store sales results for both November and the fourth [...]

Loss-maker stuck `between a rock and a hard place' As Wal-Mart's loss-making German operation remains stuck between a rock and a hard place in an increasingly difficult market, analysts have [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is forecasting a slow-down in same-store sales growth for the rest of the year to 4 to 6 percent as high energy prices and a slowing U.S. [...]

aided by grocery sales In Wal-Mart's second quarter, sales were up by 20 percent to $46 billion and earnings rose 27 percent to $1.6 billion. Wal-Mart is now the nation's [...]

High Point -- It was a good year for publicly-traded children's furnishings retailers, based on the results from Kids Today's first Annual Report Card. Collectively, 1999 sales were up 13.2% [...]

Wal-Mart's sales figures for 1999 exceeded the combined sales of its three major competitors on the global retail stage, according to the latest figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Carrefour, at the number [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported record net income for the quarter of $1.6 billion, compared with $1.25 billion for the quarter ended July 31, 1999. Earnings per share of 36 cents [...]

NEW YORK -- Adjustments in third-quarter projections pressured shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. down 7.8 percent on Wednesday even though the discounter reported earlier in the day its ninth consecutive [...]

Wal-Mart and Sam's Club have jointly presented a $5,000 grant to the Ceramics Corridor Innovation Centers (CCIC). The funding will be used for the CCIC's business incubation program in Alfred, [...]

Food represented 3.5% of Benton, AR-based WalMart Stores' sales in 1995 and will represent 14.6% in 2001 and an estimated 20.5% of company sales in 2005, according to highlights of [...]

RIDING THE MOMENTUM of its 1999 purchase of British supermarket chain Asda Group Plc, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported net earnings in excess of $1 billion for the eighth straight quarter. [...]

The Independent Community Bankers of America recently showered one of its staunchest allies, Rep. Jim Leach, with gifts to mark his last year as chairman of the House Banking Committee. [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores here rode a sales increase of 24% to a 44.7% earnings gain for its fiscal first quarter ended April 30. Sales totaled $42.99 billion, up [...]

NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart on Tuesday banged out a 19 percent profit gain before year-ago special charges in the first quarter, beating Wall Street forecasts, and told analysts it expects [...]

NEW YORK -- No worries about a slowdown in consumer spending are bothering Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Wal-Mart on Tuesday banged out a 19 percent profit gain before year-ago special charges [...]

In 1999, the membership warehouse club industry reached $60.7 billion in sales, an increase of 12.7% from 1998. Much of the growth was the result of the industry posting a [...]

Wal-Mart revealed same-store sales rose by 10.9% in April.

Despite reservations in the City, and a catalogue of alleged problems reported in the press, Wal-Mart is confident about its future in Germany Wal-Mart has stressed that it is 'satisfied [...]

NEW YORK -- The late Easter, as expected, produced ugly March sales, but retailers and Wall Street analysts said consumer spending remains solid and should lead to a resounding bounce-back [...]

Canadians could see foreign retailers doubling their presence in the country over the next 15 years, potentially taking about 70 percent of all retail sales, according to a report by [...]

On Jan. 26, Robson Walton exercised $4.9 million worth of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. stock options. The company chairman and eldest son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton picked up 72,000 shares [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced that same-store sales rose 6.1 percent for the four weeks ended Feb. 25. Total sales were $13.17 billion, up 23 percent from $10.7 [...]

Asda is offering 73,000 employees the opportunity to join Wal-Mart's Sharesave plan from March 14. Staff who take up the option can save anything from 5 [pounds sterling] to 250 [...]

NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart, renowned for running the tightest ship among retailers, should peek over its shoulder -- Target has arrived. In a conference call to Wall Street analysts on [...]

NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart might be running the tightest ship in retailing, but it better look over its bow. Target Corp. is coming on fast. And Target officials didn't hesitate [...]

Many regional, and larger, chains have come up with strategies that permit successful competition with Wal-Mart Supercenters, or at least that mitigate damage. Yet, the prospect of a Supercenter moving [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. posted a 23 percent rise in fourth-quarter earnings that just beat Wall Street estimates. The company reported net income of $1.92 billion, or 43 cents per share, [...]

Wal-Mart Stores reported sales of $1.56 billion for the quarter ended Jan. 31, 2000, an increase of 26 percent over the similar prior-year quarter. Net sales for the year were [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores here said last week the company had record earnings and sales in the 13-week fourth quarter ended Jan. 31. Net sales for the quarter rose [...]

U.S. sales at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. rose 26% in the fourth quarter of 1999 to $51.39 billion. Same store sales increased 6.3%, with a 6.4% gain for Wal-Mart stores and [...]

Sales up in Germany but stores still running at a loss The global dominance of Wal-Mart was underlined this week with its 29th consecutive year of record sales and earnings [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported net sales for the four-week period ending Jan. 28 of $11.6-billion, an increase of 22.8 percent from the $9.5 billion a year ago. Net sales for [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was seen as gaining ground in its push into Germany, but at a high cost. The world's largest retailer's 1999 losses in Europe's largest economy were estimated [...]

Kroger Co. , Cincinnati, remained the industry's leading retailer at the dawn of the new millennium, but its hold on the No. 1 spot on SN's Top 75 list is [...]

Many top executives of the food-distribution business gathered for the weekend in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the Food Marketing Institute's Midwinter Executive Conference. One of the chief conversational topics at the [...]

RETAIL IN ARKANSAS IS SYNonymous with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville and Dillard's Inc. of Little Rock. Both companies had vastly different years, but analysts have predictions of success for [...]

NEW YORK -- December's sales started soft for many retailers but firmed up as Christmas approached, leading to solid same-store sales gains almost across the board at department stores, specialty [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc., providing a snapshot of how holiday sales are shaping up, says sales during the first week of December were in line with its expectations, helped by [...]