Tianyu and Yonglida Toys are Disney suppliers owned by the same factory boss in Dongguan, China

Would we ever associate lovable Disney toys with sweatshop Chinese workers? 

Talk about big. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., headquartered in rural Bentonville, Arkansas (population 29,000), is the world’s largest corporation, with annual revenues approaching the $350 billion range. Wal-Mart’s revenues are larger than the combined GDPs of Hong Kong and Malaysia. Wal-Mart imported about $27 billion in merchandise from China last year—about the same as did Singapore. What began 45 years ago when hillbilly entrepreneur Sam Walton launched a no-frills mom-and-pop discount store in a remote corner of the American South, now is a corporate empire that spans the globe.

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November 19, 2007

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