Wal-Mart names new CEO

Courtesy CNN Money  Fri, 11/21/2008 - 8:14am

Wal-Mart Stores announced Friday that CEO Lee Scott will retire and the company's board has elected Mike Duke, vice chairman of Wal-Mart International, to succeed him.



 

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