From Wikipedia - Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is an American public corporation, currently the world's largest retailer and the second largest corporation behind ExxonMobil. It was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. It is the largest private employer in the United States and Mexico. Wal-Mart is the largest grocery retailer in the United States, with an estimated 20% of the retail grocery and consumables business, and the largest toy seller in the U.S., with an estimated 45% of the retail toy business, having surpassed Toys "R" Us in the late 1990s.
