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Wal-Mart ordered to release records
posted: 05/21/2013 12:25 a.m. Comments 3
A chancery judge in Delaware has ordered Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to turn over specific records related to what the retailer’s directors knew about claims that Wal-Mart executives bribed Mexican officials to speed development of stores.
Autumn drop in imports forecast
posted: 05/19/2013 3:23 a.m. Discuss
The import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to slow to a crawl over the summer and stall out come August and September.
Retailer files suit so critics keep out
posted: 05/18/2013 3:42 a.m. Comment 1
Wal-Mart has filed a lawsuit in Benton County Circuit Court to prevent several anti-Wal-Mart groups from trespassing on store property — specifically to prevent the groups from engaging in past activities, such as unlawful picketing, demonstrations, disrupting customers and confronting managers.
Wal-Mart earnings rise 4.6%
posted: 05/17/2013 12:48 a.m. Discuss
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported lackluster first-quarter earnings per share of $1.14 Thursday, blaming the outcome on a longer-than-usual winter and a delay in income tax return checks being issued in the critical first part of the quarter.
8 Wal-Mart investors want execs’ pay clawback details
posted: 05/15/2013 4:18 a.m. Discuss
Eight foreign and domestic institutional investors in Wal-Mart, mostly pension and trust funds, are asking the retail giant to report annually whether the company “clawed” back pay from senior executives found to have performed unethically in the previous year “and to describe the general circumstances of any recovery.” The measure, Proposal No. 8 — Request for Annual Report on Recoupment of Executive Pay — is aimed specifically at higher-ups who are found to have “violated company policy or committed misconduct detrimental to the company.” A clawback
Museum opens two exhibits
posted: 05/13/2013 1:52 a.m. Discuss
BENTONVILLE — As the Norman Rockwell exhibit approaches its final weeks at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, two collections of influential 19th-century works were made available to the public starting this weekend.
Artist’s paper flair earns $15,000 graduate fellowship
posted: 05/01/2013 4:25 a.m. Discuss
FAYETTEVILLE — University of Arkansas graduating senior Emily Chase put her patience and artistic ability to work, turning paper into a $15,000 fellowship to further her career in paper crafts and clothing design.
Arkansan has a hand in mural
posted: 05/01/2013 4:08 a.m. Discuss
Arkansas ceramics artist Trent Tally is the chief project artist for a large, 3-D, ceramic mural under construction at a downtown storefront in Joplin, Mo.
State mostly washed free of drought
posted: 04/30/2013 3:22 a.m. Discuss
Northwest Arkansas isn’t out of the drought yet — but it’s close.
Eureka gets silly, spherical for arts fest
posted: 04/28/2013 3:30 a.m. Discuss
This “artrageous” community with a population of a couple of thousand people easily doubles in size during weekends in May, when the city’s May Festival of the Arts blooms along on the city’s streets and inside its eclectic galleries. Up to 60 different events are scheduled.
