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Wal-Mart Case StudyWhen most firms were struggling in 2008, Wal-Mart increased its revenues from $348 billion in 2007 to $378 billion in 2008. Wal-Mart's net income increased too, from $11.2 billion to $12.7 billion-quite impressive. Fortune magazine in 2009 rated Wal-Mart as their 11th "Most Admired Company in the World" in terms of their management and performance. Wal-Mart Stores continues to expand internationally, particularly in emerging countries such as Brazil and India. From 2009 to 2013, Wal-Mart plans to devote percent of its international spending to emerging markets, up from 33 percent in the prior five years. The company plans include remodeling U.S. stores rather than adding new stores and going to smaller stores.
Wal-Mart's capital expenditures in the year ending January 2010 were $5.3 billion, up from $4.8 billion the prior year. As electronics retailer Circuit City was declaring bankruptcy and liquidating in 2008, Wal-Mart was beefing up its electronics product line, directly attacking Best Buy. The two firms today are in a dogfight to obtain the millions of electronics products customers. Best Buy was Fortune's 44th "Most Admired Company in the World" in 2009. Wal-Mart recently revamped the electronics departments in its 3,500 U.S. stores to make them much more interactive and roomier. The company wants all the business that Circuit City's failure left and also wants all of Best Buy's and Amazon's business.
Wal-Mart now carries sophisticated electronics products such as Research in Motion Ltd.'s Blackberry smart phones, Palm Inc.'s Pre smart phone, and Blu-ray disc players. Wal-Mart in June 2009 began selling Dell Inc.'s new Studio One 19 touch-screen computers. Wal-Mart Stores is bigger than Europe's Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro AG combined. It is the world's number one retailer, with more than 7,870 stores, including about 890 discount stores, 2,970 combination discount and grocery stores (Wal-Mart Supercenters in the United States and ASDA in the United Kingdom), and 600 warehouse stores (Sam's Club). About 55 percent of its Wal-Mart stores are in the United States, but the company continues expanding internationally; it is the number one retailer in Canada and Mexico and it has operations in Asia (where it owns a 95 percent stake in Japanese retailer SEIYU), Europe, and South America. Founder Sam Walton's heirs own about 40 percent of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is a corporate leader in sustainability. The company in 2009 alone installed rooftop solar arrays on 20 stores and warehouses in California and Hawaii.
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