Seven November 17, 2011 Fact: # Walmart has 2.1 million full time employees; this is seven times greater than the population of Iceland (http://data.worldbank.org/country/iceland, http://cnnmon.ie/ul0yxJ) This… Read More
Higher November 16, 2011 Fact: # Walmart’s revenue of US$422 billion for 2010 (year to January 2011) was 16% higher than South Africa’s GDP of US$364… Read More
Price tag November 15, 2011 Fact: # The US$2.4 billion that was spent by Walmart to acquire 51% of Massmart, amounts to only 14.6% of Walmart’s profit… Read More
Big deal November 14, 2011 Fact: # Massmart’s sales for year to June 2011 was R53bn, or roughly $6.6bn. Walmart’s sales for the year to January 2011… Read More
Informed? November 11, 2011 Fact: # In 2005, 3 million South African adults (10%) read the Daily Sun, by 2011 that figure had grown to 5.2… Read More
Access November 10, 2011 Fact: # In 2004, 4% of South African adults personally accessed the Internet in the past 7 days. By 2011, that figure… Read More