The Home Depot

The Home Depot, Inc.
legal form	Incorporated
ISIN	US4370761029
founding	1978
Seat	Atlanta United States
management	Craig Menear (Chairman & CEO )
Number of employees	400,000+ (2019)
sales	110.2 billion US dollars (2019)
Branch	Building materials trade
Website	www.homedepot.com

A home improvement store by The Home Depot in East Palo Alto , California

The Home Depot, Inc. (listed on the NYSE , stock symbol: HD, ISIN US4370761029, WKN 866953) is a US home improvement chain headquartered in Atlanta .

With a turnover of 100.9 billion US dollars and a profit of 8.6 billion US dollars, The Home Depot ranks 121st among the world's largest companies according to Forbes Global 2000 (as of FY 2017). The company had a market capitalization of approximately USD 220 billion in mid-2018.

Companies

The Home Depot operates 2,284 hardware stores (as of April 2018) in North America (USA, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico) and claims to be the largest hardware store chain in the world. The Home Depot has over 400,000 employees.

The Home Depot also owns home improvement stores and user stores such as the EXPO Design Center , Landscape Supply Garden Center, and a number of specialized "The Home Depot" stores.

Key figures

year	Sales in billions of US $	Balance sheet profit in billion US $	Price per share in US $	Employees
2005	73.094	5.001	29.12
2006	77.019	5.838	28.12
2007	79.022	5.761	27.10
2008	77,349	4.395	19.86
2009	71.288	2.260	20.14
2010	66.176	2,661	25.96
2011	67.997	3,338	30.95
2012	70.395	3.883	47.14
2013	74.754	4,535	66.88	340,000
2014	78.812	5.385	78.40	365,000
2015	83.176	6.345	109.03	371,000
2016	88,519	7.009	124.09	385,000
2017	94.595	7,957	151.88	406,000
2018	100.904	8,630	191.34	413,000

history

The company was founded in Atlanta in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank . It grew rapidly, with annual sales of $ 1 billion as early as 1986. In fiscal 2017, sales were $ 100.9 billion.

In April 2006, the company announced that it would more than double its online and catalog activities by acquiring two companies in these industries.

According to its own admission, The Home Depot had the goal of entering the European market. However, despite all the cooperation talks held on this (early 2000 with Bauhaus ; negotiations were also carried out with a Scandinavian hardware store group) or takeover attempts (early 2004 Kingfisher ), this has not yet been implemented.

Web links

Commons : The Home Depot  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• "The Home Depot", Inc. (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Home Depot Annual Report 2019 (PDF) Accessed April 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ " Corporate and Financial Overview ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice ." The Home Depot . Retrieved April 19, 2012. 
3. ^ Procter & Gamble on the Forbes Top Regarded Companies List . In: Forbes . ( forbes.com [accessed November 20, 2017]).
4. ↑ Home Depot Revenue 2006-2018 | HD. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .