Home Depot

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Home Depot

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Introduction

The Home Depot is a retail outlet that sells home improvement and construction products and services . The main office of the company is inVinings , Georgia , USA . Home Depot has somewhere around 2141 stores or big box format stores all over United States , UK , China , Canada and Myxico . The company has somewhere around 355 ,000 people working for them . In 2006 the company had a turnover of 90 .837 billion . A survey was conducted in 2008

and it was found that 120 million people visit the Home Depot 's website annually (The Home Depot , 2008

Home Depot was founded by Bernie Marcus , Arthur Blank , Ron Brill and Pat Farrah in 1978 . At that time the plan of Home Depot was to build home improvement warehouses for their customers and clients . The first store was opened in Atlanta , Georgia on 22nd June , 1979 and the store stocked in that outlet was somewhere around 25000 SKUs , which was considered to be a major feat in that time because it was double or triple amount of the products that were stored in the store in comparison to an average hardware store at that time

The slogan that Home Depot has been using since 2003 is `You can do it We can help . Over the past 25 years or so there have been other slogans the company has been using for its marketing campaigns . For example `The Home Depot , Low Prices...