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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...
Tags: Product Marketing, Retail, Lowe, Frank Blake, Home Depot Inc., Joseph De Avila, Software, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Blog posts 2007-02-12

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Home Depot: Back to Basics
Home Depot got rid of underperforming assets and redirected resources into what had long been neglected — its customers. The Move: Home Depot got rid of underperforming assets and redirected resources into what had long been neglected — ...
Tags: Home Depot Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Customers, Employee Satisfaction, Retail, Lindsay Blakely
Articles 2008-12-01
The Home Depot F4Q06 (Qtr End 1/28/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions We will take our first question from Danielle Fox - Merrill Lynch. Danielle Fox - Merrill Lynch My question is on Home Depot Supply. I am wondering what companywide initiatives are on hold as you decide the fate of this...
Tags: Home Depot Inc.
Earnings calls 2007-02-20
Home Depot F4Q08 (Qtr End 2/1/09) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question will come from Deborah Weinswig with Citigroup. Deborah Weinswig - Citigroup Good morning. Throughout the call today we heard about the newly improved assortment management tools. How much more opportunity is there to improve the processes? Frank Blake Deborah, I...
Tags: Supply Chain, Home Depot Inc., Call Transcript, Earnings, Citigroup Inc., RDC, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-02-24
Home Depot Setting Stores for Renewed Sales Growth
In its last quarterly conference call, Home Depot struck a relatively pessimistic tone, with CEO Frank Blake saying that, even though 21 out of the company’s top 40 markets recorded a lower rate of comparable store sales decline, “Getting to less bad is not the same as getting to recovery.”...
Tags: Home Depot Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Mike Duff
Blog posts 2009-06-11
Blake cruises to victory in Bangkok
BANGKOK AFP — Third seed James Blake took just 54 minutes to demolish Monaco's Benjamin Balleret 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the quarter finals of the Thailand Open. Blake secured his second straight victory in less than an hour at this tournament to setup a showdown with Finland's Jarkko Nieminen...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, tournament
Research articles 2006-09-28
Home Depot F2Q08 (Qtr End 8/3/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Daniel Binder with Jefferies has our first question. Daniel Binder - Jefferies I was wondering -- could you give us a rough idea of what you think the tax rebate stimulus may have done for your sales in the quarter, either in dollars or...
Tags: Home Depot Inc.
Earnings calls 2008-08-19
Home Depot F3Q07 (Qtr End 10/28/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions We’ll go first to Chris Horvers at Bear Stearns. Chris Horvers - Bear Stearns Thank you and good morning, everybody. First question on the recap program, I think when we are out here speaking with investors and we understand being pushed back because of...
Tags: Home Depot Inc.
Earnings calls 2007-11-13
The Home Depot Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Your first question comes from Matthew Fassler - Goldman Sachs. Matthew Fassler - Goldman Sachs I want to focus on the capital structure if I can. I know that you're not inclined to comment on the specifics about the sale of...
Tags: Home Depot Inc.
Earnings calls 2007-08-14
The Home Depot F1Q07 (Qtr End 4/29/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions We’ll go first to Matthew Fassler with Goldman Sachs. Matthew J. Fassler - Goldman Sachs Thanks a lot and good morning. I want to focus first on supply margins, if you would. I think you spoke at your analyst meeting...
Tags: Home Depot Inc.
Earnings calls 2007-05-15
The Home Depot, Inc. Q3 2008 (Qtr End 11/2/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Colin McGranahan - Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Colin McGranahan - Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Craig, you said that 40% of the decline in ticket was due to lower spending per basket. I'm assuming the remaining...
Tags: Seeking Alpha, Home Depot Inc.
Earnings calls 2008-11-18
Newmark Knight Frank
Two members of a Newmark Knight Frank team have been promoted, while another has won a top company award and a new member has joined the team. For one, Frank D. Recine has been promoted from Managing Director to Principal in the New Jersey office. He joined Newmark...
Tags: Newmark Knight Frank
Research articles 2009-04-15
Blake, Nieminen resume Stockholm rivalry
STOCKHOLM AFP — James Blake and Jarkko Nieminen set up a re-run of last year's final at the Stockholm Open, with the American champion and Finnish runner-up due to meet in a Friday quarter-final. Sixth seed Nieminen, twice a losing finalist at the iconic Kungligahallen built a century ago...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, CAREER
Research articles 2007-10-11
Housing Crunch Delivers Final Blow to Home Depot's Expo
Home Depot’s decision to shutter its 34 Expo Design Centers is being lumped in with other signals of larger economic distress, but it's something that was probably inevitable anyway. Launched in the early 1990s, Expo was to provide consumers with a place they could go as an...
Tags: Home Depot Inc., Mike Duff
Blog posts 2009-01-27
Home Depot F1Q08 (Qtr End 4/29/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions We’ll take our first question from Deborah Weinswig from Citigroup. Deborah Weinswig - Citigroup Good morning. Craig, you talked about providing the merchants with improved tools and how these tools helped improve visibility. Can you go into that in a little bit more detail?...
Tags: Home Depot Inc.
Earnings calls 2008-05-20
Home Depot, Lowe's, Other Home Centers Go from Bad to Worse
Home-center retailers are going to have to work hard if they’re to dig their way out of a recession that has undermined construction in the U.S. Of course, companies such as Home Depot and Lowe's are going to suffer in a recession, but this one is particularly...
Tags: Home Depot Inc., Recession, Retail Company, Retail, Mike Duff
Blog posts 2008-12-19
Contradictory Housing Figures May Offer a Glimmer of Hope
A lot of conflicting housing numbers were issued this week, including a major negative. But here's why, on balance, they may contain a glimmer of hope. The week began with home builder sentiment rising. The index of the National Association of Home Builders rose from 12 in...
Tags: Home Builder, Real Estate, Business Operations, Charles Wallace
Blog posts 2009-05-21
Cost and inventory cuts boost US retailers' results
US retailers reported better-than-expected second-quarter results yesterday, but their outperformance was driven largely by cost cuts and inventory reductions, rather than a sustained recovery in consumer confidence. Home Depot said net income in the three months to August 2 fell to $1.1bn from $1.2bn in the same period a year...
Tags: sales, retail company, Saks Fifth Avenue, Home Depot Inc.
News items 2009-08-18
Home Depot Profit Beats Street
By Dhanya SkariachanNEW YORK (Reuters) - Home Depot Inc HD posted a higher than expected quarterly profit on Tuesday but warned that there was still a lot of pressure in the U.S. housing and home improvement markets, sending its shares lower.Top home improvement chain Home Depot and smaller rival Lowe's...
Tags: Home Depot Inc., Lowe, Lowe's Companies Inc., Sales, Sales Strategy, SAME-STORE SALES BEAT LOWE, Us
News items 2009-11-17
STATEMENT from Bernie Marcus, Co-Founder, The Home Depot, About the Resignation of Bob Nardelli
ATLANTA -- "As co-founder of The Home Depot, I left the company in 2002 and at that time the company had become not only a great brand in the home improvement industry but in all of retailing. Under Bob Nardelli's leadership, it has remained number one in the industry and...
Tags: Bob Nardelli, Home Depot Inc.
Research articles 2007-01-04
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