Wal-Mart Stores Inc. - Success Strategies in Recessionary Environment
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Case Code: BSTR335 Case Length: 20 Pages Period: 2005-2009 Pub Date: 2009 Teaching Note: Not Available |
Price: Rs.300 Organization: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Industry: Retail Countries: US Themes: Corporate Strategy |
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Excerpts
How Wal-Mart Bucked the Trend
With the onset of the recession in the US, affluent shoppers began shopping at Wal-Mart. At the same time, lower income and middle income shoppers, who had been regular at Wal-Mart, were not impacted much by the significant fall in the stock and mortgage markets...
The Challenges
Critics believed that the recession in the US economy would also affect Wal-Mart adversely in the near future. They felt that the recession had first hit higher income class consumers and would also affect middle and lower income class consumers in due course...
Exhibits
Exhibit I: Financial Statement of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (JANUARY 31, 2000 - JANUARY 31, 2009)
Exhibit II: Net Sales and Income of Wal-Mart (2000-09)
Exhibit III: Wal-Mart's Stock Price (January 2007 - April 2009)
Exhibit IV: Recession in the US - Origins and Impact
Exhibit V: Impact of Recession on the US Retail Industry
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