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Established in 1962 by Sam Walton, and has been incorporated under the name of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. since October 31, 1969, Wal-Mart Corporation has quickly become the American largest retailer with its two famous segments, the Wal-Mart Stores, and the Sam’s Club. Among the two, the Wal-Mart Stores segment is the largest segment of the corporation. The Wal-Mart StoresIt first opened its distribution center with 38 stores and 1,500 employees in Bentonville, Arkansas in 1970 and quickly reached the sale of $ 44.2 million that year. On October 1st, 1972, Wal-Mart began trading stock as a publicly held company, and it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange shortly thereafter. Wal-Mart just kept growing rapidly during the 1980s, and by 1987, it already had 1,198 stores with sales of $15.9 billion and employed 200,000 associates. While Wal-Mart ’s Stores supply merchandises for all kind of customers, the theits SAM’sSam’s Club segment consists of membership warehouse clubsstores, which . The Company's focus for SAM'S CLUB is to provide exceptional value on brand-name merchandise for members’ price only.

Not only dominates in the United States, Wal-Mart Corporation keeps expanding its territories all over the world. By 2005, with $312.4 billion in sales, , more than 6,200 facilities around the world, including 3,800 stores in the United States as well as 3,800 international units, and employing more than 1.6 million associates emplyed, Wal-Mart has definitelyunquestionably become the largest retailer in the world. As of March 31, 2007, the company had 1,063 Wal-Mart discount stores, 2,285 Super centers, 582 Sam’s Clubs and 116 Neighborhood Markets in the United States. Internationally, the Company company has been operating in 14 units in Argentina, 299 units in Brazil, 290 units in Canada, 177 units in China, 140 units in Costa Rica, and 135 units in Guatemala, and etcetc.

The Wal-Mart’s key behind all of the successes of this company laid lies in its business model that based onof selling a wide variety of general merchandises and marketing at a "Always Low Prices” philosophy.