Wal-Mart in China Zaibao food safety scandal
Wal-Mart (Walmart) is facing new allegations of the sale of inferior products, in a few months ago, a scandal around the fake green pork, leading to the person in charge of the company’s business in China step down, and people of great interest to food safety of the Chinese market has damaged the reputation of the supermarket chains.
Sichuan Province has a population of nearly 7 million Dazhou near Chongqing. The Dazhou Animal Husbandry and Food Bureau said that in January, Florida Wal-Mart to stop the sale of pig disease ribs.
The council an official said yesterday that the announcement now, is because the government requires the council this week (Food Safety Week) to the media classic case.ルブタンプラットフォーム
The same day, the other one of the official Chinese media reported that Wal-Mart stores in Beijing, a sales sesame oil contains carcinogenic substances and heavy metals exceeded the fresh squid. According to local, state media reported, Wal-Mart off the shelf all the unqualified products.
Wal-Mart yesterday released a statement about the Florida incident, but there is no off the shelf products in Beijing position. The company said that the (pork) products from the shelves of stores now been taken off the shop has to stop supplying the products. Since January, Wal-Mart and the Florida Municipal Government on related issues to keep in close contact.
The latest exposure of these events may fight against Wal-Mart’s efforts to improve business performance in China. Wal-Mart has 370 stores in China. In a quarter of Wal-Mart’s overall sales, China is the only lagged behind the overall market. The increase in comparable store sales increased by only 1.2%.
China’s retail consultant Ray Hill, Shaun Rein, said, in part because such a perception, that is, Wal-Mart failed to provide adequate local supply chain protection.http://szc168.blogspot.com/
Since 2006, the company was 21 times the Chongqing municipal government penalties; Bo in charge during this period Chongqing sacked by now. The worst scandal in October last year, Wal-Mart stores in Chongqing was accused of ordinary pork paste the label of green pork sold at high price. This leads to Chongqing two store managers were arrested, Wal-Mart China management team was reorganized.
Faced with the occasion of the above allegations, Wal-Mart because of its Mexican operations involved in the allegations of corruption. “New York Times (New York Times), the first exposure to these allegations, to investigate allegations of two U.S. senators said this week, Wal-Mart’s outside counsel, they say, they are considered Wal-Mart in Mexico, China and the policies of Brazil and has been proposed to evaluate its policy in India and South Africa.
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