Home Depot

The Home Depot (or Home Depot) is an American retail corporation that sells home improvement items. It has over 2,000 stores. The Home Depot is headquartered near Atlanta, Georgia."Corporate and Financial Overview ." The Home Depot. Retrieved on April 24, 2009. "Headquarters: Atlanta Store Support Center, 2455 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30339""Ward Map ." (). City of Smyrna. Retrieved on July 4, 2011."Vinings CDP, Georgia." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on July 4, 2011.

The Home Depot makes more of a profit than any other home improvement store. It is the fourth largest chain store in general.Top 100 Retailers: The Nation's Retail Power Players (PDF), Stores, July 2009. The stores are very big, with high ceilings, like a warehouse. They are usually 105,000 square feet. (9,755 square meters). The biggest Home Depot is . It is in  Vauxhall, New Jersey.

History

Bernard Marcus, Arthur Blank, Ron Brill and Pat Farrah founded The Home Depot in 1978.  They wanted to have warehouses to sell home-improvement tools and materials. A banker named Ken Langone helped them get enough money.

The first two stores opened in 1979 in the city of Atlanta. The first headquarters was on Terrell Mill Road in Marietta, Georgia. In the 1990s, The Home Depot moved its headquarters to some skyscrapers near the town of Vinings, Georgia.

The two founders, Marcus and Blank retired in 2000. Robert Nardelli became the new CEO. Robert Nardelli quit as CEO on January 3, 2007. He quit because of controversy about how much he was paid when the company was not doing well. Frank Blake became the new CEO.

References

Other websites

Home Depot, Inc. (Corporate website) 
Home Depot Canada (English and French website)
Home Depot USA (English website)

Category:1978 establishments in the United States
Category:Companies based in Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:Hardware stores of Canada