19 June 2013

2013 Walmart Celebration







Celebrate Your Successes.  This is a mantra we should all keep and Walmart designates a handful of days each year for just that.  Walmart's Shareholder, International, and Associates meetings celebrate the company's diverse successes with special guests, musical performances, and powerful presentations by top executives.
 
 
 
The 2013 Associates celebration needed a design that would highlight the vast opportunities Walmart provides around the world for its associates and customers:  career advancement, women's empowerment, education, and savings for customers, contributing to communities, and sustainability.  To do so, Drury Design asked us to join forces with them to create a dynamic set that was uplifting, powerful & progressive.
 
 
During the Shareholders Meeting, special guest MC, Hugh Jackman, kept the 15,000 attendees engaged and excited throughout the show.  He introduced a star-studded lineup of musical performers such as Kelly Clarkson, John Legend & Jennifer Hudson, actor Tom Cruise, and was able to perform a bit himself.
 
 

For those of us who weren't able to attend the meetings in Fayetteville, Walmart offered a live, online telecast so anyone could witness the event.  We learned about Walmart's impressive progress in many areas, including their green initiatives such as the plan to have their headquarters in Mexico be 100% sustainable in 2017 (currently they are at 80%...pretty great!).