Wal-Mart

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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Type: Discount department store/Public (NYSE: WMT)
Founded: Rogers, Arkansas (1962)
Headquarters: Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
Key people: Sam Walton (1918–1992), Founder
H. Lee Scott, CEO
S. Robson Walton, Chairman
Thomas Schoewe, CFO
Industry: Retail
Products: Discount stores, grocery stores, and hypermarkets
Revenue: Template:Profit$315.654 billion USD (2006)
Net income: Template:Profit$11.231 billion USD (2006)
Employees: 1.6 Million (2006)
Website: www.walmartstores.com

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is a company created by Sam Walton in 1962. It is one of the world's largest companies, behind Exxon Mobil. Even so, there are many groups that dislike Wal-Mart because of their influence on local companies, the way they treat their workers, how they deal with welfare, selling mostly foreign made products, and the things they do to the environment.

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