Wal-Mart Stores's Pat Curran Named One of FORTUNE's 50 Most Powerful Women
(Fortune) -- Pat Curran, EVP, Store Operations of Wal-Mart Stores (Charts), ranks No. 32 on Fortune's 2006 list of 50 Most Powerful Women. Curran started out as an hourly employee in the pets department. Now she's the top operations executive for Wal-Mart's 3,800-plus U.S. stores, which cash in $210 billion in annual sales. By the key criteria Fortune uses in assembling its annual list - the size, importance, and health of each business in the global economy, and the momentum of each woman's career (along with her social and cultural influence) - there's no question that the power of women in the corporate sphere is rising. Indeed, it could be called the year of the Most Powerful Woman CEO. The top seven positions on Fortune's 2006 Most Powerful Women list are held by CEOs. Some other powerful women on the list include: Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (Charts); Christine Poon, Johnson & Johnson (Charts); Ellen Kullman, DuPont; (Charts) Ginni Rometty, IBM (Charts): Linda Dillman, Wal-Mart (Charts); and Brenda Barnes, Sara Lee (Charts). Next: Full list: 50 Most Powerful Women at //money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fortune/mostpowerfulwomen/1.html Plus: Most Powerful Women: 10 Highest-Paid at //money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fortune/womenpay/index.html |
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