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Initiated in September, 2011 for a period of five years(2011-2016)

Poised to be the largest investment of a corporate house dedicated to

advancing the role of women , both internally and externally.

SOURCING

Sourced $20 billion from women-owned firms in its US division

Technical & Financial support to such firms

International sourcing from women owned firms was doubled.

TRAINING

Train 1million women in areas that supported its supply chain andglobal operations.

Focus on women in developing countries in the farms, in factories

and in retail sectors

Provide better & improved career opportunities to low-income

group women

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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Promote gender diversity in its major suppliers and professional

services firms

CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY & NONPROFIT/GOVERNMENT

PARTNERSHIPS

Partnered with various governmental & non-governmental

organizations such as CARE , Dress For Success , HOPE Foundation,

etc. to complement its training and development commitments

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Shortly after Duke became CEO he created the Presidents Global council for

women leaders. He developed it to be a catalyst for change. It had 4 main

objectives:-

To develop and advance women leaders To build a pipeline of women talent

To promote inclusion

To invest in women externally

GWEEI was a direct outcome of the 4thobjective and it made sense as 80%

of the customers were women.

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The idea that Walmart is going to do its

own front-of-package label to identify thoseproducts is particularly annoying. They aredoing this just when the Institute of Medicineand FDA are trying to establish research-based criteria for front-of-package labels. Sohere is one more company trying to preemptFDA regulations. [Marion Nestle]

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The company was reported to be taking asimilar approach to chemical

formulations of products by establishing itsown screening process (self-regulation)rather than relying on a federal agency totake care of the regulatory processes.

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Walmart has long been known for being anti-union. Jim Hightower reported several years

ago: "'While unions might be appropriate forother companies, they have no place at Wal-Mart

Walmart has also been accused ofillegal political activism, sometimesintimidating employees to vote for thepolitical party of its choice

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Forces other retailers to also sell at a loss, ORcancel orders for that promotable product

because they cannot compete with theartificially low price that has been set.

The end result is that the toys will ultimatelysell fewer units because Walmart will be theonly game in town selling it. The toymanufacturers and even the inventors suffer.

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Labeling packaging as recyclable is not goodenough if there are no markets or recycling

facilities to handle the packaging waste.

There have also been cases of blatantdisregard for the environment, for examplewhen it paid fines for Clean Water Actviolations and poor safety practices in 2004