{"id":28,"date":"2007-02-20T20:27:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T20:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-02-20T20:27:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T20:27:59","slug":"wal-mart-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/02\/20\/wal-mart-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mwprices.ft.com\/custom\/ft2-com\/html-quotechartnews.asp?FTSite=FTCOM&#038;q=WMT&#038;searchtype&#038;expanded=&#038;countrycode=us&#038;s2=us&#038;symb=WMT&#038;company=NEW\"><font color=\"#003399\">Wal-Mart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <\/font><\/a><\/strong>annual sales rose to just short of $345bn during its past fiscal year, roughly three times larger than Carrefour, its nearest global rival.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s overall sales increased almost 11 per cent during the year, despite the sale of its loss-making operations in Germany and South Korea, which were offset by expansion in Latin America and new investment at its Seiyu subsidiary in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wal-Mart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual sales rose to just short of $345bn during its past fiscal year, roughly three times larger than Carrefour,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}