Jan
14

Some people envision opening a restaurant in their neighborhood or in their hometown. Jason Seyler’s vision was the parking lot of Home Depot.
It turned out the vision made a lot of sense.
Seyler’s Gigunito’s sandwich shops have 13 outposts in Home Depot and Lowe’s parking lots in Virginia and Pennsylvania, serving contractors and customers lunch and [...]

Jan
10

Home Depots former head, Bob Nardelli, was named Sunday to lead the newly created Chrysler LLC.
DaimlerChrysler AGs $7.4 billion sale of Chrysler Group to Cerberus Capital Management LP closed Friday.
Tom LaSorda, the former Chrysler Group president and CEO, was appointed vice chairman and president of the new unit. He will report to [...]

Jan
10

Brown Jordan International Inc., a St. Augustine, Fla., furniture manufacturer with a Louisville presence on Stanley Gault Parkway, recently was recognized as Home Depots 2007 Partner of the Year.
The award was presented at Home Depots Supplier Partnership Meeting in Atlanta to the companys top supplier who has demonstrated a consistent high level of [...]

Jan
10

The national housing market is in turmoil, but that hasn’t stopped large home improvement retailers from moving into the Bay Area.
Lowes is the latest to add yet another mammoth store, this one in South San Francisco, less than five miles from its San Bruno store and within 12 miles of three competing Home [...]

Jan
10

The Home Depot Inc. has sold its HD Supply segment for $10.3 billion to a group of private equity firms and will use the net proceeds and other funds to buy back company stock.
Atlanta-based Home Depot (NYSE: HD) said it will sell the unit to Clayton, Dubilier %26amp; Rice, Bain Capital and [...]

Jan
10

Big Orange is giving away a lot more green for being green.
The Home Depot Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The Home Depot Inc., is committing $100 million over the next 10 years to its two focus areas: making affordable housing environmentally friendly and tree renewal programs. Tied to the foundations five-year anniversary, [...]

Dec
18

As the deal for Home Depots wholesale supply unit was renegotiated over the weekend, a question lingered about whether the push to lower the price was a harbinger for other buyouts.
Home Depot agreed Sunday to make several concessions in the sale of the unit, HD Supply, including lowering the price by $1.8 billion, to $8.5 [...]

Dec
18

Home Depot was forced to drop the sale price of its commercial supply business by nearly $2 billion yesterday, according to people involved in the negotiations, one of the first big buyouts to be renegotiated as a result of the recent tightening of credit and problems in the housing market.
The refashioned deal cut the sale [...]

Dec
18

CHILDRENS health was on business minds amid toy recalls and changes to nutritional advertising standards, while retail sales, hedge funds and a big stock issue by a high-tech company got Wall Streets attention.
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Dec
18

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 A proposal to open a Home Depot is deeply dividing the mostly rural area of Sunland in northern Los Angeles, but not for the usual reasons.
Opponents say they have no quarrel with a big-box store, but they want a large general-merchandise retailer, one that sells socks, not sockets. They fear [...]