Walmart Optimizes Retail Strategies With International Scale

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Since launching Walmart Luminate, a comprehensive data analytics product suite, Walmart has successfully aided in optimizing retail strategies – from product assortment to product development – leveling the playing field for suppliers of all sizes.

Today, 90% of Walmart's largest suppliers have signed up for a Walmart Luminate Charter subscription, and some of their smaller suppliers account for approximately 50% of our total subscriptions.

What began as a small but dedicated team has evolved into a thriving commercial business with international scale and even more opportunities ahead to create lasting value for their customers.

Today in Global Small Business: Whiskey Wars

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• E-commerce platform Trouva has global ambitions.
• How Sloan's Ice-cream maintained brand and quality on an international scale.
• WEGG knows that women rule the world yet in Nigeria, an airline with women crew members owns the sky.
• Whiskey wars:  trade tariffs are causing a cautious brake on whiskey exports.
• Find out about what cloud computing is, how you can benefit from it and learn key growth lessons from more than 50 startup owners using cloud computing.  Join the WEGGinar™ 7/11 with IBM experts.  It's free of charge but you must register here. 
• Why SMEs need more business -- global business, that is.

Today in Global Small Business: The World's Most Revered Holocaust Survivor Dies

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• How to begin expanding your business on an international scale.
• World Development Report 2016:  Digital Dividends.
• The world's most revered and famous Holocaust survivor dies.
• Is trade policy up to the task of steering and leveraging the power of a rewired world?  Do we have a sense of urgency to make sure that it is?
• Impact report [2015] discusses the hurdles for emerging market entrepreneurship—access to capital, talent and markets—and evaluates how well the sector is addressing these.
• How your e-commerce return policy can determine global success.

Wishing you a fabulous 4th.  As an American, I am proud of our courage, bravery, and independence.