IPL which are part of the massive Wal-Mart chain that also controls Asda, are about to open a flower and plant packing factory in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. The unit opens next month and will create 150 job vacancies. IPL was formed 7 years ago and now manages all of Asda’s fruit and other fresh produce. The…
Asda have unwrapped their plans for creating 7,000 extra job vacancies this Christmas. The jobs will be predominantly in customer service, shop floor, and home delivery positions, and will form part of Asda’s £5m Christmas customer service initiative. Besides the new temporary jobs, there will also be ¾m hours of overtime meaning a happy festive…
Wal-Mart have won the battle to dismiss the class action case alleging mass sex discrimination against women. The US Supreme Court has just ruled in their favour, thus compelling the 1,500,000 female employees involved to act as individual plaintiffs if they wish to pursue their claim for reparations. The main thrust of Wal-Mart’s argument was…
Walmart is set to spend just over $750m this year by opening 80 new stores in Brazil – a move which will generate an estimated 7,000 job vacancies. Although this is a massive sum of money by anyone’s reckoning, it is only equal to the mean annual sum put into its Brazilian operations by the…
Wal-Mart’s Mexico and Central America division have announced that the company will be investing heavily in Costa Rica over the forthcoming year, constructing new stores and creating 839 job vacancies. The cost of the venture is estimated at being in the order of $160m. Wal-Mart has already opened two stores this year in the Costa…
US Supreme Court judges are about to decide whether Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, will be forced to defend itself against a class action in respect of allegations concerning discriminatory policies against female staff. This class action will be on behalf of over a million women and, if the plaintiffs win, will literally cost the…
Walmart started out in life as Wal-Mart but re-branded in 2008 into the easier, non-hyphenated version. The company was formed in 1962 by Sam Walton, a businessman from Arkansas, who had already achieved success running his discounted ‘Walton’s Five and Dime’. By 1967, he had established 24 Wal-Mart stores and acquired a turnover of over…
