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...Many analysts believe that the store-operations background of new CEO Mike Duke will keep investors quite happy. Though the recession finally caught up to Walmart last quarter, when the company reported a 1.2% drop in U.S. same-store sales, Walmart was a consistent winner during the worst days of the financial crisis, as frugal consumers traded down. While most retailers are shutting down stores, Walmart has opened 52 Supercenters since Feb. 1. Joseph Feldman, retail analyst at Telsey Advisory Group, estimates that each store costs Walmart between $25 and $30 million. In order to continue the momentum that...
...Department of Health has spent about $200 million a year on hiring international management-consultant firms, hoping to find ways to counter rising health-care costs associated with an aging population, expensive new medical treatments and rising patient expectations. The result is often a clash of cultures. A former analyst at A.T. Kearney, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity because of a nondisclosure clause in his contract, recounted the reaction of senior British health officials when he suggested that they adjust for increases in pharmaceutical costs by upping the fee patients pay for prescription drugs by the equivalent...
...They looked at me as if I had suggested saving money by killing all the sick babies in British hospitals," said the former analyst. "It simply was not politically acceptable to even mention increasing prescription charges. I was shocked. It takes a degree in Britishness to understand how touchy people are about the NHS." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...rise in insider selling, which developed over the past several weeks, signals a time for caution, not panic, says Jonathan Moreland, analyst at InsiderInsights, a stock-market advisory service. "The insiders are telling me, O.K., there's a yellow light now; the green light is off," he says. In response, Moreland is advising his clients to raise the cash component of their investment portfolios. (Read "Despite the Economy's Struggles, Stock Market Soars...
That means raising its offer. Kraft's bid puts a price of 745 pence on each share, a 31% premium compared with Cadbury's closing price last Friday, Sept. 4. But analysts agree with Cadbury's assessment that Kraft's approach "fundamentally undervalues the group and its prospects." As a multiple of Cadbury's sales, for instance, Kraft's offer amounts to roughly half that tabled by Mars in its acquisition of Wrigley, says Jeremy Batstone-Carr, an analyst at brokers Charles Stanley in London. Expectation of a second bid from Kraft, a fresh one from Switzerland's Nestl...