Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated (NYSE:WMT) 702 Southwest 8th Street Bentonville, AR 72716 Phone: (479) 273-4000 Fax: (479) 277-1830 http://www.walmartstores.com
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in October 1969. The Company operates Walmart discount stores, supercenters, Neighborhood Markets and Sam's Club locations in the United States. The Company's operations comprise three business segments: Walmart U.S., International and Sam's Club. The Company's Walmart U.S. segment operates stores in three different formats in the United States, as well as Wal-Mart's online retail operations, walmart.com. The Company's Walmart U.S. retail formats include: Discount stores, which average approximately 108,000 square feet in size and offer a assortment of general merchandise and a limited variety of food products; Supercenters, which average approximately 186,000 square feet in size and offer an assortment of general merchandise and a full-line supermarket; and Neighborhood Markets, which average approximately 42,000 square feet in size and offer a full-line supermarket and a limited assortment of general merchandise. The Walmart U.S. segment also offers financial services and products, including money orders, wire transfers, check cashing and bill payment. The Company's Sam's Club segment consists of membership warehouse clubs in the United States and the segment's online retail operations, samsclub.com. The Company's Sam's Clubs average approximately 133,000 square feet in size. Sam's Club offers bulk displays of brand name merchandise, including hardgoods, some softgoods, institutional-size grocery items, and selected private-label items under the 'MEMBER'S MARK,' 'BAKERS & CHEFS' and 'SAM'S CLUB' brands in five categories, listed below, within the warehouse club format. The International segment includes numerous different formats of retail stores and restaurants, including discount stores, supercenters and Sam's Clubs that operate outside the United States. The Company's International segment is comprised of its wholly-owned subsidiaries operating in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom, its majority-owned subsidiaries operating in five countries in Central America, and in Chile and Mexico, its joint ventures in India and China and its other controlled subsidiaries in China. It also markets lines of merchandise under its private-label store brands including 'Great Value,' 'Equate,' 'Ol' Roy,' 'Sam's Choice,' 'Spring Valley,' 'Parent's Choice,' 'Everstart,' 'Faded Glory,' 'No Boundaries,' 'George,' 'Athletic Works,' 'Secret Treasures,' 'Puritan,' 'Durabrand,' 'HomeTrends,' 'Mainstays,' 'Ozark Trail,' 'White Stag' and 'Canopy.' The Company also markets lines of merchandise under licensed brands, some of which include 'General Electric,' 'Disney,' 'McDonald's,' 'Better Homes & Gardens,' 'OP,' 'Starter,' 'Danskin Now' and 'Just My Size.' Sam's Club competes with other retailers and warehouse clubs for desirable new club sites. The International segment competes with a variety of local, national and international chains in the supermarket, discount, department, drug, variety and specialty stores, supercenter-type stores, hypermarts, wholesale clubs, internet-based retailers and catalog businesses. The Company's discount stores compete with other discount, department, drug, variety and specialty stores and supermarkets, many of which are national or regional chains. It works in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
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