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These aren't easy trends to invest in. Health clubs, golf courses and specialty travel companies tend to be privately owned. Cruise lines are cyclical; casinos are overbuilt; Wal-Mart is crushing the profit margins in vitamins, supplements and health food...
...that combined family and production values. They came up with an animated video based on the story of Daniel, Where's God When I'm S-Scared? It sold almost exclusively in Christian bookstores, but now more than half of VeggieTales' sales come from such temples to Mammon as Wal-Mart and Target...
Facing increased competition from the likes of Wal-Mart and Target, Sears CEO Alan Lacy hopes that offering Lands' End products in Sears stores will help attract new, more upscale customers (particularly women) while encouraging regular patrons who buy only automotive goods, appliances and tools to add sweaters and shirts to their shopping list. Sears plans to stock only selected goods from the Lands' End catalog, starting with a few items in time for the 2002 holiday shopping season...
...secrets at risk. Start-ups like LynkUs are looking for established partners willing to share their customers. Big firms like WebMD are trying to legitimately absorb new ideas from start-ups. Manufacturers like Ford are sharing research with partsmakers like Lear and consulting them on product designs. Stores like Wal-Mart are giving their suppliers minute-by-minute sales data and in return asking all about the suppliers' inventory, capacity and customer lists...
...Costco is not yet turning a profit on its Japanese operation, but still plans to build up to 70 stores there. Wal-Mart is edging into this market too, having recently taken a stake in ailing, 400-store food-and-clothing chain Seiyu. In fact, hypermarkets have aggressive expansion plans throughout Asia. Superstores face slowing growth in saturated home markets. They need to expand their territory to maintain growth rates. Wal-Mart intends to boost its international sales?now less than 20% of its total revenue?to a third of total revenue within five years. That means building new stores...