The infographic shows the  list of corporations  with their  recent acquisitions.These are among the biggest mergers  that are likely to face  antitrust scrutiny this year. Among one of the biggest  deals last year  was  ABInbev and Sabmiller’s 108 billion deal which will   combine worlds 2 largest brewer . Among the other biggest mergers include

• Dow Chemicals and Dupont
• Anthem Cigna and Aetna Humana
• Halliburton and Baker Hughes
• Walgreens and Rite Aid : the number 1 and no 3  pharmacy  chains set to create the biggest pharma chains
• Staples and Office Depot 

Consumer site visits increase the probability of instore experience and subsequent sales .According to Omnishopping retail data  94% of  US auto parts sales  happened instore compared to 6% online .

How America Shops:  electronics vs auto parts vs furniture:  

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The above data comes from  U.S. Retail and Food Service Sales Track estimated U.S. consumer spending by type of store, based on data from the monthly and annual Retail Electronic and appliances retail sales grew the highest,followed by auto parts and  furniture sales 

data from MasterCard SpendingPulse™, which looks at U.S. retail sales trends across cards, cash and checks, retail sales excluding auto and gas grew 7.9% during the traditional Black Friday to Christmas Eve shopping season. The biggest winners this season were eCommerce and furniture, with double-digit growth, while electronics and men’s apparel lagged well behind.Commerce grew roughly 20% compared to last year. This is not a total surprise, as 70% of U.S. consumers report doing more research online than before, according to our recent Omnishopper Guide


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AMAZON, WALMART AND HOME DEPOT are among the most  powerful retail brands across the world.Walgreens and Ikea round of the top 5 most valuable retail brands



Amazon leads the way in the retail sector by a significant margin, and the brand continues to grow. Amazon overtook Walmart in brand value terms in early 2014 and has pulled further ahead this year, rising 24% to US$56 billion, highlighting the challenge to the industry as a whole posed by new technology. Alibaba is the fastest growing brand in the sector. Its brand value has increased 90% in a year to US$11.4 billion.

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THE BIGGEST MOST POWERFUL 15 COMPANIES IN CHINA :China is a nation that continues to break global records. It is the world!s largest car market (14 million units sold), has the largest number of Internet users (400 million against the entire US population of 300 million), and its GDP is on the point of overtaking Japan to become the world!s second largest economy after the US. China is now home to among the best global brands.The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) in Hong Kong and Shanghai on July 19 this year (and which is reflected in this report) means that China is now home to four of the world’s 10 biggest banks by market capitalization. This has happened only five years since the country’s first major state-owned lender – Bank of China – went public in recordbreaking IPO launches in Hong Kong and Shanghai.



China Mobile is the most valuable China brand, valued at US$22.62 billion. According to latest data  the second  most valuable China brand is banking giant ICBC, which has a brand value of US $16.947 billion.The second most valuable sector is Telecommunications with a combined brand value of US$37.436 billion, or 17.5% of the total. Meanwhile Insurance-related brands make up the third most valuable sector among the top 100 brands with a combined brand value of US$16.217 billion. China Life is by far the most valuable brand in this sector, with a brand value of US$11.073 billion.

Layoffs in the US Retail Industry reached its highest durin 2008-2009 economic crises

Hod much you would have earned as an investor if you had invested $100 in Apple and Walmart
 Apple would have give you almost 10 time returns if you held the stock for 10 years ,$10 would  have been approx $110 in 2015. In 2014 had you cashed out , your money would have grown 12 times

Walmart would have given you 9 times the returns had you cashed out in 2014, In 2015 right now Walmart shares would have given you 7 times on what you had invested.$10 would have grown to $70 right now

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