WalMart

#141 Transnational Takeover Alert: Bentonville goes Bangalore

May 19, 2018

This will be short: I haven’t posted a “Transnational Take-Over Alert” in a long time, but given Walmart’s history of failures in international markets, it seemed important to write one now. As various news outlets recently reported, Wal-Mart has doubled down on the Indian market by acquiring Flipkart, India’s largest commerce platform – an Indian […]

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#67 What is it with global retailers?

July 6, 2010

In a recent post, Australian business blogger Andre Sammartino reports that South African grocer Pick’n’Pay has sold off its Franklins supermarkets (“Australia’s Original Discount Grocer”) to the biggest Australian grocery wholesaler Metcash. It’s not the first time that Franklins has been sold off after a somewhat unsuccessful takeover. In the late 1970s Franklins was sold to […]

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