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This excerpt taken from the WMT 10-K filed Mar 29, 2006. ITEM 2. PROPERTIES The number and location of United States and international Wal-Mart Discount Stores, Supercenters and SAMS CLUBs and other formats are incorporated by reference to the table under the caption Fiscal 2006 End-of-Year Store Count included in our Annual Report to Shareholders for the year ended January 31, 2006, which information we have included as an exhibit to this Annual Report on Form 10-K. United States. As of January 31, 2006, in the United States, we owned 2,589 of the buildings in which Discount Stores, Neighborhood Markets and Supercenters operated and 437 of the buildings in which our SAMS CLUBs operated. Land on which our stores are located is either owned or leased by the Company. In the United States, we either lease the remaining buildings in which our stores and clubs operate from a commercial property developer, lease them pursuant to sale/leaseback arrangements or lease them from a local governmental entity in connection with industrial revenue bond financing arrangements. All store leases provide for fixed annual rentals and, in some cases, the leases provide for additional rent based on sales volume. We use independent contractors to construct our buildings. For details on our distribution centers, see the caption Distribution provided for each of our segments under Item 1. Business. We own the office facilities in Bentonville, Arkansas that serve as our home office. We lease an office facility in Brisbane, California that serves as the home office for Walmart.com International. We operate our International segment stores and restaurants in a combination of owned and leased properties in each country in which our International segment operates. As of January 31, 2006, we owned nine properties in Argentina, 107 properties in Brazil, 96 properties in Canada, no properties in China, 19 properties in Germany, 86 properties in Japan, 16 properties in South Korea, 395 properties in Mexico, 10 properties in Puerto Rico and 202 properties in the United Kingdom in which operating units are located, with the remaining units in each country being leased on terms that vary from property to property. We utilize both owned and leased properties for office facilities in each country in which we are conducting business. Our International operations are supported by 85 distribution facilities as of January 31, 2006. Of these 85 distribution facilities, we owned 38 and leased 29. Third parties owned and operated the remaining 18 distribution facilities. This excerpt taken from the WMT 10-K filed Mar 31, 2005. ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
The number and location of United States and international Wal-Mart Discount Stores, Supercenters and SAMS CLUBs and other formats is incorporated by reference to the table under the caption Fiscal 2005 End-of-Year Store Count included in our Annual Report to Shareholders for the year ended January 31, 2005, which information we have included as an exhibit to this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
United States As of January 31, 2005, in the United States, we owned 2,303 of the properties on which Discount Stores, Neighborhood Markets and Supercenters were located and 407 of the properties on which our SAMS CLUBs were located. In some cases, we own the land associated with leased buildings in which our Discount Stores, Neighborhood Markets, Supercenters and SAMS CLUBs are located. In the United States, we either lease the remaining buildings in which our present stores and clubs are located from a commercial property developer, lease them pursuant to sale/leaseback arrangements or lease them from a local governmental entity in connection with industrial revenue bond financing arrangements. All store leases provide for fixed annual rentals and, in many cases, the leases provide for additional rent based on sales volume.
We use independent contractors to construct our buildings.
As of January 31, 2005, we operated 99 Wal-Mart distribution facilities. We lease 15 of the distribution facilities under industrial development bond and other financing arrangements that provide us with the option to purchase those facilities at the end of the lease term for nominal amounts. We own seven SAMS CLUB distribution facilities.
We own the office facilities in Bentonville, Arkansas that serve as our home office. We lease an office facility in Brisbane, California that serves as the home office for Walmart.com
International We operate our International segment stores and restaurants in a combination of owned and leased properties in each country in which our International segment operates. As of January 31, 2005, we owned 9 properties in Argentina, 80 properties in Brazil, 80 properties in Canada, 1 property in China, 19 properties in Germany, 16 properties in South Korea, 344 properties in Mexico, 10 properties in Puerto Rico and 180 properties in the United Kingdom in which the operating units are located, with the remaining units in each country being leased. We utilize both owned and leased properties for office facilities in each country in which we are conducting business. Our International operations are supported by 58 distribution facilities as of January 31, 2005. Of these 58 distribution facilities, we owned 32 and leased 10. Third parties owned and operated the remaining 16 distribution facilities.
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