Walmart

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announces that David Cheesewright will be promoted to president and CEO of Walmart International, the company's second largest operating segment.

While Black Friday (and now Thanksgiving Day) is the traditional kick off to the brick-and-mortar holiday shopping season, both days continue to grow in importance online. Meanwhile, Cyber Monday reached $1.735 billion in desktop online spending, representing the heaviest online spending day in history.

Nestl signs a partnership with Walmart Chile, Coca-Cola Chile, PepsiCo, and Unilever, in a joint collaboration to improve waste management in the country.

Mike Duke retires as CEO after delivering strong financial performance and developing building blocks that position the company for continued success.

As Grand Prize Winners, both products will be sold on Walmart.com and receive additional online marketing support.

As much as reputation leaders (most frequently the senior communicator, chief marketing officer or the head of business strategy) would like to be able to tell CEOs and board members that everything is under control, the fact is when it comes to stakeholder relationship management, everything is not under control. Although most companies agree that reputation management is important, relatively few have figured out what to do about it.

Building on Walmart's commitment to purchase an additional $50 billion in U.S.-made products over the next 10 years, Walmart U.S. President and CEO Bill Simon and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announce that three suppliers have made new domestic manufacturing commitments that will create 385 jobs.

This follows Walmarts announcement in September to move 35,000 associates from temporary to part time and another 35,000 associates from part time to full time by the end of the year.