Walmart
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. |
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Type | Public |
Traded as | NYSE: WMT
Dow Jones Industrial Average Component
S&P 500 Component |
Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1962 - Rogers, Arkansas, United States |
Founder(s) | Sam Walton |
Headquarters | Bentonville, Arkansas, United States |
Number of locations | 8,970 (2011) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | S. Robson Walton, Chairman
Mike Duke, President/CEO |
Products | Apparel/footwear specialty, cash & carry/warehouse club, discount store, hypermarket/supercenter/superstore, supermarket |
Revenue | US$ 469.162 billion (FY 2013)[1] |
Operating income | US$ 27.801 billion (FY 2013)[1] |
Net income | US$ 16.999 billion (FY 2013)[1] |
Total assets | US$ 203.105 billion (FY 2013)[1] |
Total equity | US$ 76.343 billion (FY 2013)[1] |
Owner(s) | Walton family |
Employees | 2.2 million (2013)[1] |
Divisions | Walmart Canada |
Subsidiaries | Asda, Sam's Club, Seiyu Group, Walmex |
Website | Corporate.Walmart.com
Walmart.com |
References: [2][3][4] |
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., branded as Walmart /ˈwɒlmɑrt/, is an American multinational retail corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's second largest public corporation, according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2013, the biggest private employer in the world with over two million employees, and is the largest retailer in the world. Walmart remains a family-owned business, as the company is controlled by the Walton family, who own over 50 percent of Walmart.[5] It is also one of the world's most valuable companies.[6]
The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart is also the...