INTRODUCTION Home Depot‚ Inc. first opened its doors in June of 1979 in Atlanta‚ Georgia under the owners of Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. They had the vision of a one-stop shop for every need a do-it-yourself customer might have. The first few stores were around 60‚000 square feet and they used empty boxes to give the illusion of more products on their shelves. Home Depot quickly became a popular home improvement warehouse throughout the country and revolutionized the do-it-yourself industry
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“Office Depot” The First Office Depot opened in 1986 in Lauderdale Lakes‚ Florida. The Office Depot is a global supplier of office products and services and has experienced a dramatic growth process over the past twenty-five years. In 1990 the Office Depot Companies bought “The Office Club Inc.”‚ and immediately became the largest office retailer in North America. Having built its business within the United States and having secured a firm business foundation‚ Office Depot expanded internationally
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[Comprehensive business Analysis: Office Depot] | Background Office Depot was founded in 1986 by F. Patrick Sher‚ Stephen Dougherty and Jack Kopkin in Boca Raton‚ Florida. The three envisioned a warehouse style store that could offer office supplies at discounted prices. The first store was opened in October in Fort Lauderdale. It was immediately successful and before the year was over‚ two more stores were opened in Florida. While Office Depot was one of the first companies to tap into this
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tim tomas 3-31-14 Eng 1020 Instructor Faulk Rhetorical Analysis As a college student in todays world technology is all around. It comes in many forms such as laptops‚ cell phones‚ tablets and many more. It seems every college student has either a smart phone or a laptop if not both. College students rely heavily on technology for homework and research and also for connecting with friends on social media websites. Many people have created Facebook or Twitter accounts. The sites have spread worldwide
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Executive Summary Submitted By: Usman Riaz Industry & Company Description Home Depot is a home improvement and construction company. It has its headquarters located in Georgia‚ Atlanta. Founded in 1978‚ Home Depot is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States with 2248 stores. This includes 1976 stores in US and the rest in Canada‚ Mexico‚ China‚ UK‚ Argentina and Chile. Home Depot serves three primary customer groups; do-it-yourself (D-I-Y)‚ do-it-for-me (D-I-F-M) and
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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS END TERM PROJECT The Home Depot Inc. Submitted by: Janmey Patel (202)
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industry analysis‚ competitive analysis and corporate analysis. Since Home Depot carries only one business‚ corporate strategy analysis is not relevant for this question. 2.1 Industry Analysis The Home Depot is the leader in the industry‚ but the market share is almost negligible (0.9%). However‚ it obtained 62% growth in 1985 which is far above the average in the industry. Judging from Porter’s five forces‚ the Home Depot is facing challenges brought by the existing firms. No much challenges
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Home Depot is the largest home improvement retailer in the Unites states with 2252 stores across the globe and the fourth largest retailer. Home Depot is a Fortune 500 company currently ranked number 35.The home depot was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus‚ Arthur Blank and Pat Farrah.Today‚ Home Depot‘s stores stock up to 35000 different kinds of building materials and lawn and garden products. The chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman of Home Depot is Frank Blake .Headquarter of Home Depot is
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Home depot Case Study analysis 1) In the case of Home Depot‚ I feel the two values that seem more concurrent are Universalism and Benevolence. Through the very tough economic conditions Frank Blake remained very loyal to his staff‚ he took care of them during the market downfall by lowering sales and profit target that hourly employees were to meet to receive bonuses. This inspired workers to want to meet goals that were much more realistic‚ and had great rewards. This also generated a higher
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Home Depot MGT 330 Management‚ Theory‚ and Application University of Phoenix Harry Clore February 16‚ 2009 Home Depot Introduction When two upper level managers decided to relinquish their jobs with the small hardware store they were working at‚ “Handy Dandy” they had a vision and set out to develop a company that catered to the “do-it-yourselfer‚” and with that idea‚ The Home Depot was born. As the company exploded from one store into hundreds‚ it soon became the largest supplier of
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