The biggest chain retailer in the world, Wal-Mart announced it would cut 11 200 employees of the warehouses of wholesale chain Sam’s Club. The majority of the cuts will affect staff in charge of promotions in stores Sam’s Club, after the leadership of Wal-Mart has decided to assign these functions to external marketing company Shopper Events. Mike Duke, who is CEO of Wal-Mart, said at the end of 2009, the trading environment for the entire group continues to be difficult. In these 600-store chain wholesaler Sam’s Club employs approximately 110 thousand employees. Promotion of the products they were responsible for the marketing company Shopper Events in an attempt to attract more customers and boost declining sales of the chain. Sam’s Club trying to win customers from their competitors, led by the biggest chain of wholesalers in the U.S. Costco, and to this end of the chain stores began to offer more everyday goods like groceries, beauty products and health, in same time reduced the supply of furniture and clothes. However, the revenues of Sam’s Club is shrugged their nearly 1 percent on an annual basis to 11.55 billion dollars in the last three months of 2009 at the same time, Wal-Mart reported a sales increase of 1.2% yoy to 61.81 billion.
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The Central Bank of China has ordered banks in the country to raise the level of reserves as new rules come into force from today forward CNBC, citing unnamed sources. Thus in practice has entered into force the decision to increased requirements to the level of reserves for which the information leaked last week. The new provision requires that the level of reserves to increase by 0,5 percentage points. Information that currently is not official, says that the requirements imposed on certain financial institutions, which officials say have a risky behavior. Last week Reuters reported that similar requirements are imposed on CITIC Bank, which is the seventh largest bank in the country and the largest lender Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
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Gazprom’s exports of natural gas in 2009 fell 11.4 percent to 140 billion cubic meters, says a report to the deputy chairman of Russian gas giant, Alexander Medvedev. The report says the decrease in exports is due to the overall reduction in gas consumption in Europe because of the economic crisis. Details of financial losses due to reductions of Gazprom export, the report shall not be communicated, but according to his previous comments in export earnings of the company for 2009 is 40-42 billion dollars, while in 2008 they were 64 billion dollars. As one of the main reasons for the decline in sales of natural gas to Europe from Gazprom determine the substantial increase in capacity for compressed natural gas from Qatar. Central place in the report whether the loan Gazprom prospects for development of gas market in the U.S.. The leadership of Gazprom will probably continue to discuss it soon the deposit investments amounting to billions of dollars, which is proposed to be developed mainly for the export of compressed natural gas in the United States and Canada.
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The share of Google in Internet search continues to grow. According to data from Nielsen, in December the company has developed world to their positions in the U.S. at the expense of rivals Microsoft and Yahoo. Google held 67.3% of searches in the network, which is nearly 2 percentage points more than the previous month, when it was 65.4%. Secondly, it is Yahoo with 14.4 percent share in Internet search. Follows its partner Microsoft, whose service in Bing pass 9.9% of web search. The U.S. market remains the most important to Google. We recall that the company is about to withdraw from China, after problems with the authorities in the country who are trying to regulate the Internet at their discretion.
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The Consumers worldwide will spend 6.2 billion dollars in 2010 in the stores for mobile applications, predicts Gartner. Analysts think of the famous agency that stores mobile applications will register more than 8 billion “Download” in 2010 Eight out of ten downloads of free will, even predict the company. Until 2013 did the total number of withdrawn applications will reach 21.6 billion if free downloads will account for about 82% of all withdrawals in 2010, then three years later free download will represent 87 percent of all. The growing popularity of smartphones and growing sales volumes of such devices will prompt users to experiment with mobile applications analyzed by Gartner. Researchers are categorical that the games remain the number one use for mobile gadgets, followed by applications for mobile shopping, social networks.
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The ticket sales and number of passengers on trains Eurostar, traveling from London to Paris and Brussels through the Channel Tunnel rose in 2009 despite a train accident in December that left more than 2 thousand passengers “trapped” in the tunnel hours, Air Force forward. Eurostar sales last year increased by 1,7 percent to 675.5 million pounds (774 million), while the number of passengers grew by 1.2 percent to 9.2 million. Earlier this week the company announced it expected to pay compensation amounting to 11 million passengers in the tunnel remained closed because of damage to trains on the weekend before Christmas.From Eurostar note that the crisis has reduced the number of business trips in the first half of last year.
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Once the pilot of British Airways staff was not allowed by the court to strike during the Christmas-New Year today, it was clear that the danger of rebellion was not away with, says BBC. Unite trade unions which belong almost most of the flight personnel the air-company said it is expected that scheduling a new date to be a ballot on whether to initiate a strike or not. This happens after the airline and the unions failed to resolve the problems raised by the cuts and working conditions. From British Airways said that disappointed by the decision of the union, but not surprised, as they are ready to continue talks. Last year the company has accumulated losses of $ 400 million because of the decline in travel due to the recession gripped the global economy.
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The British company Cadbury chocolate products offer an improved bid accepted for the acquisition and will become property of the U.S. food giant Kraft saga about four months after the transaction. Contract value was 11.9 billion pounds (19.7 billion dollars) or 840 pence a share. 500 of them will be in the form of direct payment and the rest in shares of Kraft. The previous proposal was for 769 pence per share, of which 40% in equities and 60% in the calculations of economists broy.Po new company will have a turnover of 50 billion dollars annually. Earlier this month, Kraft sold its division for frozen pizza Nestle, as the transaction price was 3.7 billion dollars. In consequence of there said it would use the money to improve its offer for British company. Kraft sreshttna number of difficulties including the acquisition and competitive bidding of Nestle and Hershey. One of the largest of them, however, was the decision by Warren Buffett, who is a major shareholder in Kraft, opposed to the deal because it can distort the financial performance of the company. 10 years ago a similar attempt to deal Buffett stopped Coca Cola, as then, the company wanted to acquire another player on the market of soft drinks.
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