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42-1113: Carrell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Al Carrell , columnist, author, radio personality, and home construction/improvement expert Alexis Carrel aka Carrell (1873–1944), French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist C. L. Carrell (1875–1933), American entertainment promoter and radio station operator Duane Carrell , American football player George Aloysius Carrell (1803–1868), rector at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and first Roman Catholic Bishop of Covington, Kentucky James P. Carrell (1787–1854), minister, singing teacher, composer and songbook compiler John Carrell (figure skater) , American ice dancer Jordan Carrell (born 1994), American football player Mike Carrell (1944–2013), American politician and educator Monroe J. Carell Jr. (1932–2008), American businessman and philanthropist Peter Carrell (born 1959), New Zealand Anglican bishop Rudi Carrell (1934–2006), Dutch entertainer Suzanne Carrell, founder of

84-805: A Compete.com survey. In the US HomeDepot.com has 5 Call centers located in Kennesaw, GA; Atlanta, GA; Marietta, GA; Ogden, Utah and Tempe, AZ. Home Depot online offers in-store pickup and online returns. In 2006, The Home Depot started testing fuel centers at some of its stores. The first two "Home Depot Fuel" convenience stores (C-Store) were located in Tennessee . Four additional prototype stores were built in Acworth, Georgia ; Smyrna, Tennessee ; Greensboro, Georgia ; and Winchester, Tennessee . In 2012, Home Depot VP of Corporate Communication Stephen Holmes stated that

126-480: A 75% share. All of the Aikenhead's Hardware stores were later converted to The Home Depot stores. By 1995, sales reached $ 10 billion while operating 350 stores. Former General Electric executive Robert Nardelli became CEO and president of The Home Depot in 2000. San Diego maintenance and repair supplies company Maintenance Warehouse was purchased by The Home Depot in 1997 for $ 245 million. Maintenance Warehouse

168-620: A catalog and online sales, but with five physical locations. The five physical locations were not included in the deal. In December 2020, Home Depot bought back HD Supply for $ 8 billion. In January 2022, The Home Depot announced Craig Menear would be stepping down as the CEO and president effective March 1, 2022, while continuing to serve as the chairman of the board. He was replaced by former executive vice president Ted Decker . In February 2023, Home Depot announced that it would spend $ 1 billion to raise hourly employee wages. As of 2020, Home Depot

210-704: A for-associate charity, is named after the mascot, who since its creation, has been a part of Home Depot culture ever since. This includes signage, advertising, awards, and even a life-size costume for stores to rent out. Homer has a wife, named Daisy. Home Depot stores average 105,000 ft (9,755 m ) in size and are organized warehouse-style, stocking a large range of supplies. Home Depot's two largest stores are located in Vauxhall, New Jersey , which encompasses 217,000 ft of space, and in Anaheim Hills, California , where it encompasses 204,000 ft . The company color

252-655: A suburban Detroit store in Harper Woods, Michigan , rejected a bid to be represented by a labor union , voting 115 to 42 against joining the United Food and Commercial Workers . If the union had won, the Michigan store would have been the first Home Depot to have union representation. Your Other Warehouse, a large plumbing distributor with a focus on special order fulfillment, was acquired by The Home Depot in 2001. Your Other Warehouse also supplied two divisions of The Home Depot and

294-456: Is a bright orange (PMS 165, CMYK 60M100Y, HEX FF6600), on signs, equipment and employee aprons. Contractors make up only five percent of Home Depot's customers but they account for 45 percent of the companies $ 132 billion in annual sales. To address these contractor customers the company is building new flatbed distribution centers designed specifically to cater to builders that roll up in a contractor flatbed trucks . The Home Depot announced

336-526: Is also owned by The Home Depot, with 70 distribution centers across the United States. It is the sixth largest United States–based employer globally . The Home Depot was co-founded by Bernard Marcus , Arthur Blank , Ron Brill , Pat Farrah , and Ken Langone in 1978. The Home Depot's proposition was to build home-improvement superstores , larger than any of their competitors' facilities. Investment banker Ken Langone helped Marcus and Blank to secure

378-509: Is an industrial supply and distribution company. The company, formerly called The Maintenance Warehouse, provided infrastructure and construction support services for businesses throughout North America. Renamed as HD Supply, the business was re-acquired by THD in December 2020. The Home Depot exclusively carries several major brands, including: Additionally, the retailer sells the following house brands , though it does not manufacture any of

420-570: Is called The Super Handyman’s Home Care Almanac . Carrell married his wife, Jean, and they had daughters Kelly and Meg. His father was a postal worker. This article about a United States journalist born in the 1920s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Home Depot This is an accepted version of this page The Home Depot, Inc. is an American multinational home improvement retail corporation that sells tools , construction products, appliances, and services, including fuel and transportation rentals. Home Depot

462-506: Is effective as of February 1, 2016. Ms. Campbell has been employed by Home Depot for over 30 years, beginning as a cashier in a branch in South Florida . Her most recent role was as president of Home Depot's Southern division. The Home Depot has over 90 distribution centers throughout the United States to serve over 2,000 The Home Depot stores. The domain homedepot.com attracted at least 120 million visitors annually by 2008 according to

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504-573: Is ranked #26 on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. In 2023, the company was ranked 67th in the Forbes Global 2000 . For the Q2 of 2020, the company reported sales of $ 38.1 billion, which represented a growth of 23.4% from the same period, the previous year. The net earnings for the period of three months (ending August 2) rose 27% up to $ 4.3 billion. The growth in

546-680: Is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States. In 2021, the company had 490,600 employees and more than $ 151 billion in revenue. The company is headquartered in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia , with an Atlanta mailing address. Home Depot operates many big-box format stores across the United States (including the District of Columbia , Guam , Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands ); all 10 provinces of Canada; and all 32 Mexican states and Mexico City . Maintenance, repair, and operations company Interline Brands ( The Home Depot Pro )

588-401: Is very heavily dependent upon the success of the company. Although a longtime deputy to Nardelli at GE and Home Depot, Blake was said to lack Nardelli's hard edge and instead preferred to make decisions by consensus. Indeed, Blake repudiated many of his predecessor's strategies, and it has been reported that the two men have not spoken since Nardelli departed Home Depot. In 2008 and 2009, with

630-529: The Congrès de la Culture Francaise en Floride See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Carrell All pages with titles containing Carrell Carel Carrel Carell Carroll (given name) McCarrell [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Carrell . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding

672-702: The NASDAQ , raising $ 4.093 million. The Home Depot joined the New York Stock Exchange on April 19, 1984. The Home Depot began to branch out of Georgia to Florida in 1981 with stores opening in Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale . By 1984, The Home Depot was operating 19 stores with sales of over $ 256 million. To enter the Dallas market The Home Depot acquired Bowater Home Center from Bowater Inc. on October 31, 1984, for $ 40 million. The increased expansion of The Home Depot in

714-812: The EXPO Design Centers. The "EXPO Design Center" division was reorganized in 2001 with three divisions based in the Northeast at South Plainfield, New Jersey , the West at Orange, California , and the Southeast at Atlanta, Georgia . The Home Depot entered the Mexican market in 2002 with the acquisition of the home improvement chain Del Norte. In addition, The Home Depot had begun construction of stores in Mexicali and Tijuana . In

756-522: The Southwest Division. He subsequently served as senior vice president of merchandising from August 2003 to April 2007. He then served as an executive vice president of merchandising from April 2007 to February 2014. Until becoming CEO, Menear served as president of U.S. Retail from February 2014 to November 1, 2014. The company had a data breach in September 2014. One major reason for the data breach

798-417: The United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico that serve customer needs for MRO supplies. The brands of Interline Brands include: Online seller of textile and textile goods for the home decor market. Originally founded in 1911 as a purveyor of home furnishings, its online division—only—was acquired by THD in 2017. Online contractor referral service founded in 2009; now called THD Pro Referral. HD Supply

840-489: The company had no plans for additional fuel centers or growth in that area. The Home Depot offers rental vans and trucks at most of its locations. Blinds.com is an e-commerce retailer of window blinds and window coverings . Blinds.com was founded by Jay Steinfeld in 1993. By 2006, the company was named #186 on the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, as well as the 10th fastest-growing e-commerce company on

882-455: The company's patent-pending Instafit shade product. In January 2014, Blinds.com was acquired by The Home Depot. Power equipment rental company that prior to 2017 provided equipment to rental departments in over 1,000 Home Depots in North America. Acquired by The Home Depot on July 6, 2017. Interline Brands (renamed in 2018 as The Home Depot Pro) has over 90 distribution centers throughout

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924-420: The downturn in the housing market, The Home Depot announced the layoff of several thousand associates, as well as the closing of 54 stores nationwide, including the entire EXPO Design Center chain. Associates at EXPO were allowed to re-apply for Home Depot jobs after the layoffs , and did not lose any tenure if hired back. In the year of February 2009, sales totaled $ 71.288 billion, more than $ 20 billion down from

966-496: The goods itself: Home Depot is mainly owned by institutional investors, who own around 70% of shares. The largest shareholders in December 2023 were: The Home Depot Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the company created in 2002. It has contributed over $ 200 million in time, labor, money, and supplies to a number of causes, including Habitat for Humanity , California-based City of Hope National Medical Center , and playground construction organization KaBOOM! Home Depot supports

1008-484: The largest home improvement store in the United States, surpassing Lowe's . In the 1990s The Home Depot searched for ways to redefine its marketplace. The EXPO Design Center subsidiary was launched in 1991 to provide high-end products and design services. A 480-page book Home Improvement 1-2-3 was published in 1995. The Canadian hardware chain Aikenhead's Hardware was acquired by The Home Depot in 1994 for $ 150 million with

1050-516: The late 1990s and "The Home Depot: First In Home Improvement!" from 1999 to 2003. Long-time employee Marc Powers became the head of Home Depot's US stores division in 2014. He took the place of Marvin Ellison, who left to become the chief executive of J.C. Penney . In January 2016, Home Depot announced the departure of Powers as division head, to be replaced by another veteran employee, Ann-Marie Campbell , one of Powers' deputies. The change in leadership

1092-521: The launch of "Paces Trading Company," its online lighting store. In mid-2006, the Home Depot acquired Home Decorators Collection, which was placed as an additional brand under its Home Depot Direct division. In 2006, the Home Depot acquired Hughes Supply the largest home retailer in the United States for $ 3.2 billion. Hughes Supply was integrated into The Home Depot Supply to better serve business-to-business customers. The Home Depot Supply rebranded under

1134-582: The list. In 2009, Blinds.com was given the Marketer of the Year Award by the American Marketing Association , in recognition of its innovative marketing strategy. In response to demand for window coverings that could be installed quickly and easily, CMO Daniel Cotlar led a partnership with a manufacturing vendor to design a window shade that could be installed without tools or adhesive. This led to

1176-540: The management of Interline Brands for $ 1.6 billion. Interline Brands became fully integrated with The Home Depot in August 2016 with the Interline Brands website merging with The Home Depot website. The subsidiaries of Interline Brands are now companies of The Home Depot. In 2017, Home Depot acquired the online presence of The Company Store from Hanover Direct . The Company Store was founded in 1911, operating primarily as

1218-404: The mid-1980s created financial difficulties with earnings falling by 42% and debt rising to $ 200 million. The financial difficulties of The Home Depot also caused the stock price to fall. To curb The Home Depot difficulties it opened only 10 stores in 1986 with a stock offering 2.99 million shares at $ 17 per share which helped The Home Depot to restructure its debts. In 1989, The Home Depot became

1260-717: The necessary capital . Bernie and I founded The Home Depot with a special vision – to create a company that would keep alive the values that were important to us. Values like respect among all people, excellent customer service and giving back to communities and society On June 22, 1979, the first two stores, built in spaces leased from J. C. Penney that were originally Treasure Island " hypermarket " ( discount department and grocery ) stores, opened in metro Atlanta (in Doraville and on Memorial Drive in Decatur , both near I-285 ). On September 22, 1981, The Home Depot went public on

1302-658: The new name HD Supply in January 2007. Five months later The Home Depot sold HD Supply to a consortium of three private equity firms, The Carlyle Group , Bain Capital and Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (with each agreeing to buy a one-third stake in the division). On January 2, 2007, the Home Depot and Robert Nardelli mutually agreed on Nardelli's resignation as CEO after a six-year tenure. Nardelli resigned amid complaints about his heavy-handed management and whether his pay package of $ 123.7 million (excluding stock option grants) over

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1344-478: The new slogan "How Doers Get More Done" on December 5, 2019, replacing the previous slogan "More saving. More doing." which was introduced in the March 18, 2009, circular, replacing "You can do it. We can help." which had been used since 2003. Other slogans used in the past 25 years include "The Home Depot, Low prices are just the beginning" in the early 1990s and "When you're at the Home Depot, You'll feel right at home" in

1386-566: The peak of two years earlier due to the sale of HD Supply and falling revenue at the retained business. In 2012, they proceeded to close the big-box style stores that they had in China, however, smaller stores that specialized in custom products and that focused on more intimate interactions between customers and associates remain open there. In 2013, The Home Depot established two large distribution centers in Atlanta and Los Angeles . In August 2014, it

1428-536: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carrell&oldid=1153004913 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames French-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Al Carrell In 1951, Carrell and his wife moved to Dallas, Texas . Carrell graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas, Texas) and in 1999,

1470-426: The previous five years was excessive, considering the stock's poor performance versus its competitor Lowe's . His severance package of $ 210 million was criticized because when the stock went down, his pay went up. His successor, Frank Blake , previously served as the company's vice chairman of the board and executive vice president. Blake agreed to a much more conservative compensation package than Nardelli, which

1512-548: The sales was a result of Americans staying at home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic . In the Q3 for 2020, ending November 1, Home Depot reported a revenue of $ 33.5 billion; it represents a year-on-year increase of 24 per cent. The Home Depot's mascot has been Homer D. Poe since 1981 when he was first used in advertising. Gwyn Raker, the illustrator, says, "I designed him to be a funny guy next door who wasn't intimidating." The Homer Fund,

1554-551: The same year the Home Depot Landscape Supply was launched to integrate professional landscapers and upscale plants into a plant nursery retail chain. Home Depot Landscape Supply lasted only five years with only a few stores each in metro Atlanta and Dallas/Fort Worth . The Home Depot decided to close all Home Depot Landscape Supply stores in late 2007. In September 2005, Home Depot Direct launched its online home-furnishings store, 10 Crescent Lane, shortly followed by

1596-430: Was a leading direct-mail marketer of maintenance, repair and operations supplies that could reach customers out of reach by The Home Depot. Atlanta-based company Apex Supply was acquired by The Home Depot in 1999. Apex Supply is a wholesale distributor of plumbing, HVAC, industrial pipe and fittings. Apex Supply and Maintenance Warehouse were rebranded in 2004 as "The Home Depot Supply." In 2004, Home Depot employees at

1638-454: Was announced that Frank Blake would step down as CEO and would be replaced by 57-year-old Craig Menear . The change occurred on November 1, 2014. Blake continued with the company as chairman. Menear joined The Home Depot in 1997 and served in various management and vice-presidential positions, until 2003, including merchandising vice president of hardware, merchandising vice president of the Southwest Division, and divisional merchandise manager of

1680-591: Was inducted into Woodrow 's Hall of Fame. On August 27, 2014, Carrell died of pneumonia in Dallas. Carrell began his career writing a syndicated newspaper column for The Dallas Morning News . It appeared in this newspaper for 20 years. Carrell was a spokesman for the Home Depot in its early days from its creation in 1979 up until the early 90s. A Dallas radio station called him and wanted him to start up his own show where listeners would call in to ask for advice. The show

1722-561: Was nationally known as The Handy Man Show. His daughter was a co-host with him on his show and hopes to continue the show with a different name, "Super Handy Mom". The program ran on KSKY-AM (660). While no longer the company spokesman, Carrell's subsequent endeavors were often sponsored by Home Depot . He spent over 30 years on radio, helping citizens in North Texas with household repairs. Carrell wrote six books, including The Super Handyman’s Encyclopedia of Home Repair Hints . His last book

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1764-624: Was the practice of entering credit card numbers directly into computers at the service-desk and pro-desk, and in specialty departments including flooring, kitchen cabinets, appliances, and millwork , rather than using POS credit card terminals directly. The practice was stopped, and Home Depot offered a year of free credit monitoring through AllClearID for any customers who requested it. There were also reports of credit card numbers being stolen when used to make purchases on Homedepot.com. On July 22, 2015, Home Depot acquired Interline Brands from P2 Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs' private equity arm, and

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