Puerto Rico
Walmart opened its first store in the municipality of Fajardo in 1992. The first Sam’s Club opened in Bayamón in 1993. Two more Sam’s Club followed in 1994, and in 2001, the first Walmart Supercenter opened in the Municipality of Cayey. In 2003, the company acquired Supermercados Amigo. Walmart Puerto Rico launched its newest format, Super Ahorros, in November 2008. The current President and CEO of Walmart Puerto Rico is Renzo Casillo. Our headquarters are in Caguas. For more information, please visit http://www.walmartpr.com Community 
Through strategic alliances with organizations such as the Women’s Cardiologist Association, Puerto Rico Children’s Hospital, and Center for Disease Control, among others, we have provided awareness campaigns to customers. Also, throughout the year, the local health department has provided free vaccines for children and adults, impacting thousands of customers in our stores across the island. Our stores held the fifth annual“Dona tu Cambio” (Donate Your Change) campaign, raising more than USD $100,000 for the local chapter of the Red Cross. We donated US$50,000 to the local chapter of Feeding America for a program which will help provide nutritious meals for children in risk of going hungry during the weekend. This donation was given to the organization during the launch of our local Food Donations program, which is part of the Zero Waste Program. Sustainability 
We held our first Sustainability Forum in March 2009. The forum brought together diverse sectors in a collaborative effort to promote sustainability on the island. Among the topics discussed in the forum were global warming and its effect on the island, initiatives and actions to diminish our environmental impact, the importance of sustainability in the local market, renewable energy and solid waste, reforestation and environmental conservation, as well as the initiatives we developed through our Sustainable Development Program launched in 2006. In 2009, our operational energy efficiency initiatives saved more than 8.0M Kwh, equivalent to USD $1.4 million. Additionally, our recycling efforts diverted 77 percent of generated waste from Puerto Rico’s landfills. During the third quarter of 2009, more than 400 volunteers, including 70 of our associates, participated in cleaning Carraizo Lake. The lake provides potable water for more than 1 million people in the San Juan metropolitan area. More than 25 tons of waste were diverted from landfills through recycling. In alliance with the local Solid Waste Authority and Sony Puerto Rico, we held a television recycling campaign in six stores, recovering 112,540 pounds. or six tons of recyclable material. Opportunity We are the main private employer in Puerto Rico, with more than 13,600 jobs. In August 2008, we launched a local farmers development program called “Wal-Mart Siembra el Desarrollo del Pais" (Sowing the Development for the Country) in alliance with government agencies and non-government organizations, to increase consumption of local produce and create new jobs in the agricultural sector.
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