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Posted by Jibril on Thursday, June 30, 2011


Wal-Mart business HISTORY Inc. can not be separated from the genius of Sam Walton. Because, in the hands of an alumnus of the University of Missouri, Columbia, this is the global retail octopus really meraksasa.

Starting from his experience working for many years in retail company Sears Robuck and JC Penney, Walton started his business step. He bought a franchise and lease in the Port of Ben Franklin, Arkansas, the sales network of local retailers Butler Brother in 1945.
It only took three years, Walton is able to increase annual sales from USD80.000 to USD-225 000. Business sense that genius has motivated Walton to further develop its business network. This was done when I purchased a shopping center owned retailer in the region Luther E Harrison Bentonville, Arkansas, five years later (1950).
Since then, Walton began to name the network of shopping center called Walton's 5 & 10. As a talented businessman, Walton really able to prove its capacity to take decisions that determine business. By doing so, Walton can increase the power expansion is evidenced Walton bisnisnya.Hal wheel when exactly in 1962, was able to establish 11 retail business networking.
Number of networking business grew in 1967, namely to 24 shopping centers throughout the state of Arkansas. This expansion contributed annual sales level of Walton's 5 & 10 to USD12, 6 million. To further strengthen the image of business networking, Walton change the name of Walton's 5 & 10 into Wal-Mart in 1967.
These changes can not be separated from the role Bob Gogle, the right hand Walton confidence in running its retail business. Gogle propose naming the belief that Walton's retail network will be able to become a strong retail business. Walton business expansion more massive when in 1968, Wal-Mart to expand its business network outside the state of Arkansas, the Sikeston, Missouri, and Claremore in the state of Oklahoma.
The expansion is to add business networking to 78 shopping centers shopping center starting in 1974. The development of further technology enough to help the expansion of Wal-Mart business. Because with computerization at the various shopping centers, Wal-Mart sales increased from USD167, 5 million to USD479 million.
In addition, the number of shopping centers also increased to 153 units. In fact, the numbers continue to rise rapidly to 330 shopping centers with sales of USD1, 2 billion in 1980. Spike in the number of Wal-Mart shopping centers increased more rapidly again in 1985 and 1990.
In each year, Wal-Mart shopping centers recorded a shopping center with a value of 1114 sales of $ 6, 4 billion and 1528 sales of department stores with a value of USD25, 8 billion. However, Wal-Mart's business history is not always rely on organic growth system, because non-organic business measures such as the acquisition becomes part of the history of its growth.
This step is for example, carried out by the first Wal-Mart when it acquired a network of retail shopping Mohr-Value is located in Michigan and Illinois. A year later, Hutcheson Shoe Company retail company also acquired. Acquisition policies continue to run Wal-Mart expansion as organically.
In 1980 for example, Wal-Mart re-acquisition of Kuhn's Big K, who has 92 shopping centers in two states, Georgia and South Carolina. But at the same time, Wal-Mart is also expanding into Florida market and Nebraska.
Selainitu, selainmenyediakan staple goods consumers, Wal-Mart also has done many innovative products provision of basic needs of consumers. In 1978 for instance, Wal-Mart's target market drug sales, car service centers, and jewelry goods.
This innovation continued when Wal-Mart also for the first time introduced the concept of Wal-Mart Supercenter in Washington, Missouri. This concept combines berdiskon shopping services, fuel sales centers, optical centers, studio painting, photography, banking services, cellular telephone, hair care and nail salons, video rental movies, and even snack food service outlets.
Wal-Mart's growth increasingly incredible. In 1989, Wal-Mart has been pretty dominate the market for consumer sales at nearly 26 U.S. states, including Michigan, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Even stepping on 1990, Wal-Mart also surging markets of California, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Utah. Overseas markets are also targeted Wal-Mart.
Starting with the market entered Mexico with the opening of Wal-Mart stores in the area of ​​Mexico City in 1991. This continues with the opening of Wal-Mart stores in Hong Kong and Canada in 1994. In fact, to strengthen networking business, Wal-Mart acquired 122 stores and PACE Woolco who has 91 warehouse storage of goods from Kmart in Canada.
Business expansion abroad were intensified Wal-Mart.Pada 1995, Wal-Mart re-open net in the country pertokoannya Argentina and Brazil. So also in Asia by forming a joint venture with local retail company in 1998, after two years before Wal-Mart failed to enter the Korean retail market due to intense competition among retail companies.
Even when entering the UK in 1999, Wal-Mart's incredible enough to quickly dominate the market with the acquisition of ASDA Group Plc, which has 229 shopping centers. Slowly but surely, with outstanding business performance, Wal-Mart continues to crawl into a company that really menggurita.
Recognition of dominance continues to flow from various institutions, even the competitors themselves. In 2005 for example, Fortune magazine ranking puts Wal-Mart in the fifth position of the leading companies globally.
Even in 2003-2004, respectively, Wal-Mart occupies the top position of all firms in the U.S. who have a broad market averages in the entire world.
Wallmart: Sale day> 36 GDP Countries
"Praise is free but can generate earnings doubled", Sam Walton / Walmart Founder
Wallmart is saah of the largest companies in the world and certainly the largest retailer in the world. In 2007, they recorded a 1.9 million Personnel Officer Worldwide, made it as one of the largest companies in the world.
Sales wallmart within 1 (one) day exceeds the GDP (gross domestic income) from 36 countries. Wall mart sells everything from food, foodstuff, dvd, tv, electronic, computer, gadgets, from household appliances UP TO WEAPONS API.
TOTAL LOSS due to shoplifting (theft) is greater than the profit achieved by PORSCHE. Wall mart is China's trading partners all eight. Economists said the price - the price of a cheap walmart is the reason why America can control inflation remains low.
BUT, unlike many DotCom companies (IT, such as Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Kaskus too), which makes its founders became millionaires in a relatively short time, Sam Walton, founder of Walmart Opening his store to-2 after 7 years, and after 25 new year opened 38 stores. Mr. Sam / Sam Walton, unlike other miliader, is someone who enjoys the status of strangers, and enjoy a picnic for its employees entered the house, come morning - the morning and tea in the back of the store as regular employees.
Behind it looks like it, walmart is an innovator in technology, computer systems walmart is the SECOND largest in America after the Pentagon (aja imagine their computer systems).
Walmart currently operates approximately 6400 stores globally and in 2007 global sales were 384 BILLION DOLLARS Walmart. Or By EXCHANGE RATE USD. 10 Thousand per dollar equal to 3840 TRILLION (READ THE THREE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FORTY TRILLION RUPIAH)
Try We Compare.
Sales in 2008 were AROUND THE SUN (approximate) 12 TRILLION Rupiah, Means Walmart sales = More Sales From 300x Sun
Indonesia Stock Exchange Capitalization Current ranges RP. 1000 trillion rupiah, meaning Sales Wall Mart Nearly 4x Bigger than the entire Indonesian Stock Exchange ..
Walmart Sales More than 2x INDONESIA DEBT
The Walmart You Could Imagine? Imagine your investment menggurita like Wal-Mart starts from the assets you have now with a brilliant idea in your head? Maybe you could end up as a PRESIDENT OF INDONESIA later in the period of your peers in retirement? You will not know until you try it! That is the fruit of the investment in the IDE ('something' that exists in your head)

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