Dive Summary:

• Michael Duke, Walmart's chief executive, spoke at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting in December, declaring that his company would not buy products manufactured in unsafe factories.
• The New York Times reports that recent internal communications, including an executive's email to retailers about inadequate safety monitoring, inspection reports from 2011 and 2012 and minutes from an April 2011 meeting, contradict Duke's public position.
• The report comes in the wake of a deadly fire at a Bangladeshi factory that several of Walmart's suppliers use.

From the article:

"When Walmart’s chief executive, Michael Duke, appeared at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting in New York this month, a raucous crowd of protesters awaited him. Walmart was confronting reports of bribery in Mexico, a wave of labor demonstrations in the United States and, perhaps most critically, questions about a grisly fire that had killed 112 workers at a Bangladeshi garment factory used by several Walmart suppliers. ..."