一、沃尔玛的性质英语介绍
急求!
Wal-Mart Stores, branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores .The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000 list(福布斯榜), and the largest public corporation when ranked by revenue. It is also the biggest private employer in the world with over 2 million employees, and is the largest company in the world.
The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart is also the largest grocery retailer in the United States. In 2009, it generated 51% of its US$258 billion sales in the U.S. from grocery business. It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail warehouses in North America.
Walmart has 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names. The company operates under its own name in the United States, including the 50 states and Puerto Rico. It operates in Mexico as Walmex, in the United Kingdom as Asda, in Japan as Seiyu, and in India as Best Price. It has wholly owned operations in Argentina, Brazil, and Canada. Walmart's investments outside North America have had mixed results: its operations in the United Kingdom, South America and China are highly successful, whereas ventures in Germany and South Korea were unsuccessful.
二、WalMart 什么意思啊?是美国一个超市的名字吗?
沃尔玛(Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.)
"Wal"是沃尔玛创始人Sam Walton(山姆·沃尔顿)姓氏Walton的前三个字母(第一个音节),mart即是market(集市,市场),旧时常用,现在已不多见。
(沃尔玛来自美国,由山姆·沃尔顿(Sam Walton)于美国阿肯色州罗杰斯开设第一家商店至今,沃尔玛已发展成为全世界最大的零售业巨头。)
三、求沃尔玛超市简介的英文版 不要百度和在线翻译 可以自己翻译简单点
Wal - Mart Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. NYSE:WMT is a American worldwide chain of enterprises, turnover of the world's largest companies, its controlling human Walton family. Headquartered in Arkansas in Benton, my. Wal - Mart mainly involved in retail trade, are enterprises with the most employees in the world, in the United States for three consecutive years on Fortune Global 500 companies in the rankings.
四、沃尔玛简介,包括其历史,文化,员工,服务的英文简介
(Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.)(NYSE:WMT)是一家美国的世界性连锁企业,总部设在阿肯色州本顿维尔。以营业额计算为全球最大的公司,其控股人为沃尔顿家族。沃尔玛主要涉足零售业,是世界上雇员最多的企业,连续三年在美国《财富》杂志世界500强企业中居首位。
沃尔玛公司有8500家门店,分布于全球15个国家。沃尔玛在美国50个州和波多黎各运营。沃尔玛主要有沃尔玛购物广场、山姆会员店、沃尔玛商店、沃尔玛社区店等四种营业态式。
沃尔玛百货有限公司由美国零售业的传奇人物山姆·沃尔顿先生于1962年在阿肯色州成立。经过五十多年的发展,沃尔玛公司已经成为美国最大的私人雇主和世界上最大的连锁零售企业。沃尔玛在全球27个国家开设了超过10,000家商场,下设69个品牌,全球员工总数220多万人,每周光临沃尔玛的顾客2亿人次。
1991年,沃尔玛年销售额突破400亿美元,成为全球大型零售企业之一。据1994年5月美国《财富》杂志公布的全美服务行业分类排行榜,沃尔玛1993年销售额高达673.4亿美元,比上一年增长118亿多,超过了1992年排名第一位的西尔斯(Sears),雄居全美零售业榜首。1995年沃尔玛销售额持续增长,并创造了零售业的一项世界纪录,实现年
销售额936亿美元,在《财富》杂志95美国最大企业排行榜上名列第四。事实上,沃尔玛的年销售额相当于全美所有百货公司的总和,而且至今仍保持着强劲的发展势头。至今,沃尔玛己拥有2133家沃尔玛商店,469家山姆会员商店和248家沃尔玛购物广场,分布在美国、中国、墨西哥、加拿大、英国、波多黎各、巴西、阿根廷、南非、哥斯达黎加、危地马拉、洪都拉斯、萨尔瓦多、尼加拉瓜等14个国家。它在短短几十年中有如此迅猛的发展,不得不说是零售业的一个奇迹。
2011年,沃尔玛公司和沃尔玛基金会慈善捐赠资金累计3.19 亿美元、物资累计超过4.8亿美元。2014年,沃尔玛公司以4762.94亿美元的销售额力压众多石油公司而再次荣登《财富》世界500强榜首。