4 1962 Sam Walton, the company’s founder, opens Wal-Mart’s first discount store in Rogers, Arkansas USA. TIMELINE 1970 Wal-Mart opens its first distribution centre and establishes its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. 1975 Wal-Mart makes its first acquisition, purchasing 16 Mohr-Value stores in the states of Michigan and Illinois. 1983 Wal-Mart is named “No. 1 Retailer” by Forbes magazine for the 8th year in a row. 1991 Wal-Mart opens its first international store, in Mexico City. 1994 Wal-Mart opens its first environmentally friendly prototype store. In 2010, Wal-Mart represents a network of 8 416 stores worldwide generating hundreds of billions of dollars in sales annually, but it started with a single store in Rogers, Arkansas in the United States in 1962. With such tremendous growth, highlights have been many, but here are some of the most significant financial, environmental and social milestones in Wal-Mart’s 48-year history. A few of Wal-Mart’s milestones Highlights from a short history of Wal-Mart Images: walmart.com