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• Home Depot to Close 15 Stores, Curb Openings

  By Karen Jacobs ATLANTA (Reuters) - Retailer Home Depot Inc HD, which has been battered by the slumping housing market, on Thursday said it plans to close 15 underperforming U.S. stores and will curb future openings, sending its shares up more than 5...

  News items 2008-05-01

  Tags: Retail, Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Investment, Home Depot Inc., retail company, Atlanta, board, IPO, shareholder, sales, CEO, analyst, profit margin, revenue, stock, earnings per share, Thomson Reuters Corp.

• Home Depot to Close 15 Stores, Curb Store Openings

  ATLANTA (Reuters) - Retailer Home Depot Inc HD, which has been battered by the slumping U.S. housing market, on Thursday said it plans to close 15 underperforming stores and said it will curb future store openings. Home Depot said it will no longer...

  News items 2008-05-01

  Tags: Retail, Home Depot Inc., opening, Atlanta, retail company, Thomson Reuters Corp.

• What Roger Adams Brings to Lord and Taylor

  Industry insiders are voicing surprise that Lord & Taylor, the nation's oldest department store, would turn to Roger Adams, ex-Chief Marketing Officer of The Home Depot, as its first CMO. Adams joined Home Depot in 2005 as VP of marketing, and became CMO a year later. He has also worked...

  Blog posts 2008-04-21

  Tags: Lord & Taylor, Home Depot Inc., Roger Adams, Industry Insider, Branding, Gender And Diversity, Marketing Research, Marketing, Human Resources, Lisa Everitt

• Another New Face at Chrysler

  Another New Face at ChryslerNardelli from Home Depot to Chrysler hmm..You know, I am recalling Jim Kramer's remarks about Nardelli at Home Depot Kramer calls it Home Despot and my personal experience shopping at Home Depot and how the stores look like trash (look more like Builder's Square did then...

  Discussion threads 2007-09-11

  Tags: Chrysler LLC, Home Depot Inc., New Face, Nardelli

• The Houston Retail Market Update

  The housing market's recent slowdown has had a ripple effect that can be felt across all markets, and retail is no exception. Many retailers such as Lowe's, Home Depot, and Sears have especially been hit. The nation's number one home improvement retailer, Home Depot, recently reported that it expects earnings...

  White papers 2007-08-14

  Tags: Retail, Financial accounting, Home Depot Inc., Sears Roebuck & Co., retail company, housing market, earnings per share

• Ask the Experts: How Would You Fix Wal-Mart?

  Growth is stalled. Image-problems abound. We asked the experts to provide some free advice on how Wal-Mart can solve its current problems. The Problem: Opening new stores in U.S. cities The Summary: Whether it's Best Buy, Target, or Costco, every mega-retailer finds it challenging to open stores in cities and urban areas....

  Articles 2007-08-08

  Tags: TVs, Joseph De Avila, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Home Depot Inc., consultant, food, same-store sales, China, plasma TV, retail company, health care, president, brand, emerging market, patient, TV, leader

• Does the Transition at Chrysler Signal Big Changes for the Big 3?

  Cerberus Capital Management LP announced today that former Home Depot Inc. Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli will take on the role of CEO at Chrysler, unleashing a flood of speculation about the meaning of the appointment. Nardelli left Home Depot under a cloud of controversy surrounding his compensation and the...

  Blog posts 2007-08-06

  Tags: Benefits, Strategy, Jessica Stillman, Robert Nardelli, Chrysler LLC

• Daily Dispatch: Samsung, Home Depot, GE Money, and U.S. Industrials

  Samsung Electronics today unveiled a new flash memory production line at its Texas plant and revealed plans to invest another $3.5 billion in flash memory chip production there. The announcement marks the first time the leading memory chip-maker has released details on production capacities. Analysts say Samsung's...

  Blog posts 2007-06-15

  Tags: Memory, Investment, Andrew Hines, eBay Inc., Home Depot Inc., flash memory, General Electric Co., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

• The Branding Power of Eco-Labels

  Earlier last month, Home Depot introduced a new "Eco Options" label meant to identify certain products as the environmentally responsible choice. Timberland, producer of footwear and apparel, has introduced a label that resembles the nutrition panel on U.S. food products -- except it displays information on products' environmental impact. What's...

  Blog posts 2007-05-03

  Tags: Andrew Hines, branding, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Home Depot Inc.

• BNET Daily Dispatch: Home Depot, Microsoft, Tesco, and the U.S. Dollar

  Home Depot announced today the largest environmental labeling initiative in the history of American retailing. The program will tag almost 3,000 products with the "Eco Option" label, indicating superior environmental performance.  “Who in the world has a chance to have a bigger impact on this sector than Home Depot?” said...

  Blog posts 2007-04-17

  Tags: INTERNET, Andrew Hines, Home Depot Inc., U.S. Dollar, Tesco, Microsoft Corp.

• Home Depot's Extreme Makeover

  Frank Blake is wasting no time shaking things up Home Depot. He's ditching executive perks. The company unveiled a new marketing campaign featuring realty TV like commercials. And the biggest move is yet to come. Today Blake formally announced that the company is considering selling off its wholesale division. Getting into...

  Blog posts 2007-02-12

  Tags: Joseph De Avila, Home Depot Inc., Lowes, Blake

• Home Depot Turns Its Attention to Supplier Performance Management

  Home Depot's information systems were not near where they needed to be to support the business of a Fortune 500 company. The Atlanta-based home-improvement chain, outranked in sales only by Wal-Mart Stores and France's Carrefour, had been sailing along with a hodgepodge of systems. To stay on the course of...

  Case studies 2006-06-01

  Tags: Channel management, Benefits, Keller International Publishing, Home Depot Inc., home improvement, supplier, information system, business process, health care, worker, environment, sales, tool

• Home Depot Case Study

  Home Depot is a $45 billion retail company. Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement retailer, with stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Home Depot's goal with the Corporate Purchasing Card CPC program was to streamline and automate their purchasing processes, rationalize their spend, and...

  Case studies 2004-10-01

  Tags: Channel management, Retail, American Express Co., Home Depot Inc., supplier, home improvement, retail company, strategy

• Home Depot: How Big Hardware Retailer Makes Direct Delivery Work

  This case study is about the Home Depot that has truckers to provide the buffer that’s missing from a direct store delivery DSD model. Home Depot, the “big-box” hardware and home products chain, prefers to receive direct from suppliers in Canada and the U.S. “The stores are...

  White papers 2002-07-01

  Tags: Keller International Publishing, Home Depot Inc., supply chain, hardware, customer service, supplier, strategy, network

• The Home Depot: World-Class Pallets for a World-Class Company

  If a company needed a pallet with functionality to work with eight different lifting mechanisms, four different conveyor systems, with full four-way entry, that is rackable in both directions, flows in both directions, and that is also durable enough to provide years of trouble-free service, what would they do? This...

  Case studies

  Tags: pallet, Home Depot Inc., team

Additional Resources

• Thomson's PRN Wins Top 2008 Communications Award for Point-of-Purchase Advertising

  Display TV Content Produced by PRN for Ryobi at The Home Depot Honored with Golden Hammer Award SAN FRANCISCO -- An engaging Display TV media experience created by Thomson's Premier Retail Networks, Inc. PRN for Ryobi at The Home Depot has won the 2008 Golden Hammer Communications Award...

  Articles 2008-05-07

• The Home Depot to Host First Quarter 2008 Earnings Conference Call on May 20, 2008

  ATLANTA, May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Home DepotR, the world's largest home improvement retailer, announced today that it will hold its First Quarter 2008 Earnings Conference Call on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at 9 a.m. ET. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030502/HOMEDEPOTLOGO ) A webcast will be available...

  Articles 2008-05-06

• More Shoppers Heading to Discount Giant for Electronics, Home Improvement & Grocery Items

  Higher gas and grocery prices coupled with anuncertain economic environment are driving more consumers to Wal-Mart forelectronics, home improvement and groceries according to the April RetailRatings Report from BIGresearch ( http://www.bigresearch.com ). For the Electronics category, Wal-Mart had the highest year over yeargrowth in share of consumers that shop there...

  Articles 2008-05-06

• Partners Help Make Affordable Housing Possible During Habitat for Humanity's Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project 2008

  ATLANTA & BILOXI, Miss. -- Habitat for Humanity today announced its appreciation for the many partners that are making homeownership possible with low-income families during this year's 25th annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project in the Gulf Coast, May 11-16. Through material, volunteer labor and funding donations, Habitat's partners...

  Articles 2008-05-05

• Ask the Ad Team

  Q: There is a Home Depot commercial with Jason Taylor of the Miami Dolphins and several other athletes. Who is the guy who plays the basketball player that gets "scanned" at the register? Ironically, he's wearing a jersey from the NCAA champion Kansas Jayhawks. --Mike Noblet, Parkland, Fla....

  Articles 2008-05-05