Monday, February 16, 2009

International Operations Data Sheet - January 2009

WalMart International
3,630 total units as of January 31, 2009

Market.................Retail Units....Date of Entry

Mexico.................1,197................November 1991
Puerto Rico.........56..........................August 1992
Canada................318..................November 1994
Brazil...................345.............................May 1995
Argentina...........28...........................August 1995
China (*)............243.........................August 1996
United Kingdom.358............................July 1999
Japan .................386.........................March 2002
Costa Rica.......... 164 ...............September 2005
El Salvador........ 77 .................September 2005
Guatemala...... 160 .................September 2005
Honduras......... 50 ..................September 2005
Nicaragua........ 51 ...................September 2005
Chile............... 197 ........................January 2009

(*) Includes a 35% interest in Trust-Mart, which operates 100 stores in China.

Trade Territory
WalMart Stores, Inc. operates in 15 international markets, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom, serving more than 49 million international customers weekly.

Total International Associates
More than 680,000

Total International Sales FYE 1/31/08:
$90.6 billion – 17.5 percent increase over the previous year. Operating income was $4.76 billion, an increase of 11.8 percent compared to the previous fiscal year.

For the four-week period ending January 30, 2009, $6.65 billion - a decrease of 7.3 percent over the same period last year. On a constant currency basis (assuming foreign exchange rates remained the same as the prior year), International sales increased 11 percent in the January period.

For the third quarter FY 2009 ending 10/31/08: $24.9 billion – an increase of 11.2 percent over the same period last year. Operating income was $1.2 billion for the quarter, an increase of 10.6 percent over the same period last year.

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