Late last week, Walmart announced the launch of a new Retail Brand (private brand), Love & Sports. The new brand is an activewear and swim collection created with renowned fashion designer Michelle Smith and superstar indoor cycling instructor Stacey Griffith.Love & Sports features vibrant, high-performance fabrics and details in a blend of fresh, fashion-forward gym
Position Summary...What you'll do...At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make to create the future of retail, from responsible sourcing to sustainability – and everything in between.As a Director of Private Brands in Dry Grocery , your expertise, vision and
Over the past few years, Walmart has focused on building their assortment to bring stylish home goods and décor to customers at an incredible value. This includes adding exciting national brands to our portfolio and launching strategic collaborations with designers and influencers that bring exclusive and elevated product lines to Walmart customers at accessible prices.
Walmart has never shied away from setting big, ambitious goals, whether it’s setting their sights on 100% renewable energy or their commitment to sustainable packaging, including a goal to achieve 100% recyclable, reusable or industrially compostable packaging by 2025. Innovation is essential to achieving those goals and meeting customers’ growing expectation to buy sustainable/sustainably packaged
Small business owners and entrepreneurs with a dream of selling their U.S. made, grown or assembled products to millions of customers now have their chance. This week, Walmart announced the opening of the application period for its 9th annual Open Call event. For the first time in the program’s nine-year history, Walmart offered an exclusive
Nearly one year ago, Walmart announced a first-of-its-kind apparel collaboration with American fashion designer Brandon Maxwell, who is serving as Creative Director for two of the retailer's Denise Incandela, EVP of Apparel and Private Brands, Walmart U.S. exclusive brands, Free Assembly and Scoop. Earlier this week the Bentonville-based giant unveiled both spring 2022
Walmart and Plenty Unlimited Inc. today announced Walmart signed an agreement to invest in Plenty, an indoor vertical farming company, as part of their $400M Series E funding round subject to a regulatory approval. Walmart’s equity investment is part of a broader strategic partnership to utilize Plenty’s indoor vertical farming technology platform to deliver fresh
Walmart is looking to Retail Brands (Private Brands) as a key area for making progress on its ambitious sustainability goals. That was the take from two executives who spoke at the Velocity Institute (RBI) Sustainability Summit and answered follow-up questions from RBI President Christopher Durham. The executives outlined Walmart’s initiatives and the impacts on
Walmart today raised the bar on climate action by creating a supply chain finance program that not only enables greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions, but for the first time, uses science-based targets to do so in a way that aims for a 1.5-degree Celsius pathway. Working alongside HSBC and CDP, the program will help
Fifty years ago, Sam Walton started a single mom-and-pop shop and transformed it into the world's biggest retailer. Since those founding days, one thing has remained consistent: our commitment to helping our customers save money so they can live better. Today, we're reinventing the shopping experience and our associates are at the heart of
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