Jenny Frost, president and publisher of Crown, said that there would be some layoffs at Ten Speed as its distribution and warehousing units were consolidated into Crown's operations.
The company's Sam's Club warehouse unit posted a 5.3 percent increase in same-store sales, excluding fuel, helped by extra marketing efforts for its grocery business.
At the end of a working day, they come back to this warehouse unit to sleep in a metal bunk bed alongside 42 others.
At outlets open at least a year, sales at Wal-Mart distores storoserose 6.8percentt, and sales at its warehouse unit, Sam's Club, increased 3.7percentt.
Under scrutiny for the long waits that have cost manufacturers — and ultimately consumers — many millions of dollars, Goldman said on Wednesday that its warehouse unit, Metro International Trade Services, would give customers who store aluminum at the warehouses immediate access to their metal.
Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, said yesterday that Thomas Grimm had retired as president and chief executive of its warehouse unit, Sam's Club, which is struggling in the face of tough competition.
Sam's Club, the warehouse unit of Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, has joined with the manufactured housing company Fleetwood Enterprises to sell homes through its stores in nine states at discounted prices.
Home Depot Inc. agreed yesterday to buy the NCH Corporation's apartment-maintenance business to expand in the Southern United States its own Maintenance Warehouse unit, which sells repair products to hotels and apartment complexes.
When Ron Carey, a parcel truck driver from Queens, ran on an anticorruption platform and captured the presidency of the Teamsters, a union that had been long notorious for Mafia connections, Ms. Pope became an international representative for the union's warehouse unit.
The world's biggest retailer said its quarterly earnings rose more than 20%, bolstered by a recovery in its Sam's Club warehouse unit and rapid international expansion.
