Sam Walton learnt the value of money very early in life.
Wal-Mart Stores continues to top the Fortune 500 list.
The world's largest retail company, Wal-Mart was founded by Sam Walton in 1962.
Despite the downturn, the 42 females in the Forbes 400 had a combined net worth of $181 billion.
Wal-Mart's heir John Walton died on Monday as the plane he was flying crashed near Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
In the decade since Biyani revolutionised retailing in India, he has attempted a number of things, eventually exiting a few of them.
The centrality of idle office chitchat has only recently come to be acknowledged by executives as they jettison their access cards and work from home in larger numbers, notes Kanika Datta.
Retail giant Walmart has the world's largest number of employees.
The 53-year-old entrepreneur has felt the heat of e-commerce.
He alone gets the credit for reviving consumer interest in Ayurveda, says Bhupesh Bhandari.
India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
If it ain't love, it ain't entrepreneurship.
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Traders were up in arms, fearing huge job loss if Walmart was to enter.
'For how long can investors fund loss-making companies?'
He wants to transform his retail-led enterprise into a consumer goods giant, and reach Rs 1 lakh crore in turnover by 2021, but is that feasible?
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