Home Depot STRENGTHS - Strong market position - Higher returns than competitors - Balanced brand mix - WEAKNESSES Sub optimal capital structure - Product recall OPPORTUNITIES - International presence - Growing popularity of power tools - Increasing online sales THREATS - Intense competition - Slowdown in US housing market - Rising labor wages in the US |The Home Depot Inc. (HD)
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Introduction Home Depot is a nationally and somewhat internationally recognized company. They not only have stores throughout the US but they have broken into Canada‚ District of Columbia‚ Puerto Rico and Mexico. They are the United States’ largest retailer behind Wal-Mart. Home Depot is known for its bright orange logo and its multiple departments available to individuals and businesses. They have primary operations in the home center and hardware store industry. Their strongest competition
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Home Depot fix or not Lady? Alan E. Paschal MGMT 302A November 27‚ 2013 Laryssa Ziolkowski Home Depot fix or not Lady? Home Depot is a home improvement retailer that is trying to stay with the other rival home improvement stores like Lowes. Home Depot was founded in 1979 in Atlanta‚ Georgia the first home depot was around 60‚000square feet with about 25‚000 sku’s. The biggest problem was they were still using the same technology in 2010 that they had in 1990’s (Home Depot‚ 2012). They need
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Home Depot EMG 3327 11/13/2013 Introduction The reason for selecting this topic is because I worked in a warehouse‚ so most of the work is similar to Home Depot we handle thousands of items on a daily basis like electrical parts‚ hardware‚ paint‚ janitorial supplies‚ and plumbing. The only difference is that we are funded for the government and provide our service to assisted families at or below 80 percent of area median income. History The Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus
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addressed the problems that were easy to point out and also the ones that weren’t apparent to other employees. Nardelli needed to rebuild an organization that could easily compete with other big names‚ and this was relatively easy because the people at Home Depot knew the importance of taking advantage of its growing size. Nardelli did this by implementing a three strategy plan that involved enhancing the core‚ extending the business‚ and expanding the market. Nardelli’s first step in the process was
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Part 4 Case 1: Retail Development Comes To Hattiesburg‚ Mississippi Hattiesburg-a small town full made up of university students mostly has been losing its customers to nearby large towns and cities such as Mobile‚ New Orleans and Biloxi. However‚ the new mall Turtle Creek Mall is expected to lure back the crowd inside the town. This huge center has many big-box retailers such as Bed‚ Bath and Beyond‚ Old Navy etc. it is expected that the new retail facilities will increase retail square footage
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Case Study: The Home Depot Preface This Essentials of Strategic Management assignment has been made by three persons which have been working together and individually to finish the assignment properly and in time. Secondly‚ we would like to thank the company whose websites we were able to visit and use‚ to get additional information that we could use for leading the assignment of Home Depot to a successful ending. We can say‚ that it was a pleasure to work on this assignment and would‚ in the
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COMPANY MISSION / VISION 3. LEADERSHIP 4. THE HOME DEPOT COMPANIES 4.1 EXPO Design Center 4.2 The Home Depot 4.3 The Home Depot Floor Store 4.4 The Home Depot Landscape Supply 4.5 The Home Depot Supply 5. STORES 6. SERVICES 7. SUPPLIERS 8. CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY 8.1 The Home Depot Foundation 9. MARKETING STRATEGY 9.1 Neighbor of Choice? 9.2 Employer of Choice? 9.3 Retailer of Choice? 9.4 Investment of Choice? 10. THE HOME DEPOT VALUES 11. COMPETITION 12. DID YOU KNOW? 13. SWOT
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love places like Home Depot‚ Costco‚ and Lowes? Sure you do! They’re great places to buy wholesale items‚ home improvement materials or simply to just walk around. But did you know you’re not alone in liking these places? According to a new study‚ even the rich love shopping at these places. Maybe we’re not so different after all. RICH PEOPLE PICK COSTCO AND HOME DEPOT OVER NAME BRAND ITEMS A new study from Minitel shows that even wealthy consumers love the Costco and Home Depot brand items you
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HOME DEPOT INC. (Note: all $ amounts are stated in millions) PART 1 a) There are 3 years covered in the following primary comparative financial statements‚ namely fiscal years ended 1 February 2004‚ 2 February 2003 and 3 February 2002: • Consolidated Statement of Earnings • Statement of Stockholders Equity and Comprehensive Income • Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows There are 2 years covered in the Consolidated Balance Sheet‚ namely fiscal years ended 1 February 2004 and 2
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