Home Depot made its biggest bet yet on expanding its business earlier this year when it bought SRS Distribution, a ...
Home Depot's sales have gotten hit by economic factors, as higher interest rates slow housing turnover and more than two ...
Bernard "Bernie" Marcus, the billionaire Home Depot cofounder and a Republican megadonor, who in recent years became an ...
Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, died Monday at the age of 95 ... eventually taking the helm at Handy Dan Home Improvement in California, where, in 1978, he was fired at the age of 49. It ...
In 1978, he came up with the idea of a warehouse-style store that would appeal to the do-it-yourself homeowner. With a ...
Marcus co-founded The Home Depot with former co-worker Arthur Blank, when the two were dismissed as employees with a ...
a chain in California. They both were fired after new management came in, so the duo hatched a plan to start a new chain that was bigger than traditional hardware stores with better-trained staff.