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Case Study: Walmart’s Use of Interest Rate Swaps
Walmart’s emergence as a global behemoth began
with the opening of the first Walmart store by Sam
Walton in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas.
Walmart’s success was due to a disciplined adherence
to the strategy of purchasing high volumes directly
from manufacturers combined with pioneering
investments in information technology that allowed it
Introduction to effectively manage its supply chain and distribution
networks.
Walmart closed the twentieth century as the United
State’s largest generator of sales and the world’s
largest private-sector employer.
It targeted an increase in its share of U.S. retail share
sales from 8% to 15%.
To reach this target, Walmart company officials bet on
growth of its Supercenter stores, which were larger
versions of its flagship stores that added groceries to
the normal product offerings.
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285
256
244
Challenges: 165
2000 -2005
Net Sales
Walmart Stores
1980
1736 1713
Challenges:
1353
1258 1209
1175
1066
612 648