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)
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INTRODUCTION Home Depot enjoyed high growth of revenues and profits in the period 1978-2003. From 7 mio USD of revenues in 1979 to 64‚8 bn in 2003. Revenue growth was generated mainly due to external growth coming from mergers and acquisitions. Home Depot has four product categories: Building and Remodeling‚ Home Décor and Organizing‚ Outdoor Living and Tool and Hardware. Company went through some structural changes when in 2000 first non funder Bob Nerdelli became the CEO of the company. Nerdelli
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David McGee Jr. BUS 482 Strategic Analysis Professor Bevensee The Home Depot The Home Depot‚ Inc. (The Home Depot)‚ based in Georgia‚ US‚ is a home improvement retailer. The Company operates The Home Depot stores‚ which are full-service‚ warehouse-style stores. The Home Depot stores sell an assortment of building materials‚ home improvement and lawn and garden products and provide a number of services. The Home Depot stores average approximately 104‚000 square feet of enclosed space‚ with approximately
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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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The 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
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Home Depot Case Study Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank opened the first Home Depot in Atlanta‚ Georgia in 1979. They had big plans for the hardware and home improvement industry. Today‚ Home Depot is extremely successful with over 22 million customers shopping weekly and 66 billion in revenue‚ which makes them the largest home improvement retailer in the world. Home Depot employs over 300‚000 people and operates over 2200 stores in the US‚ Mexico‚ Puerto Rico‚ China‚ the Virgin Islands‚ Guam and
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Set up in the late 1970s‚ Home Depot grew rapidly over the 1980s and early 1990s‚ adding stores at the average annual rate of 20 percent. In the late 1990s‚ the company’s comparable store growth rate began declining. It was also experiencing operational difficulties due to its tardiness in developing systems to manage its rapid growth. In this situation‚ the board decided to bring new leadership to the company that can focus on new technologies‚ build efficiencies and reallocate resources while keeping
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MIDTERM – THE HOME DEPOT’S ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION Organization Communications Mgmt 305 Potomac College Abstract This paper will analyze the culture of The Home Depot and its communication practices. This will be accomplished by examining the dimensions of the organization’s structure. The Home Depot’s sociability‚ power distribution and job autonomy‚ degree of structure‚ achievement rewards‚ opportunities for growth‚ tolerance for risk and change‚ conflict tolerance‚ and emotional
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Home Depot Case Study Fabian Gonzalez Great Basin College Line and staff relationships consist of two types of authorities that work hand in hand in order for a company to work in an efficient manner. Line authority deals with the ability to make decisions over production‚ sales‚ or finance‚ while staff authority deals with the assisting of those who have line authority‚ by helping with the performance expected by workers (Certo). In the Home Depot case‚ the
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another method of collecting primary data? Why? The case suggests that customers‚ especially women in particular found it difficult or awkward to lift‚ carry‚ and pour from conventional buckets when full of soil or other contents. The decision to observe consumers using buckets is a direct way to determine whether consumers have any difficulties with buckets‚ and if so‚ what kind and how much difficulty. Furthermore‚ the observation is‚ in this case‚ easier than asking consumers to describe in words
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