The Home Depot: Difference between revisions

{{Hatnote|For the database of individual Home Depot locations, see '''[https[Bluepages:Tables//www.bluepageswiki.org/wiki/Special:Drilldown/Home_Depot?_singleHome Depot|the Drilldowndata pagetable]]''' for [[Template:Infobox Home Depot|Infobox Home Depot]].}}

'''The Home Depot''' is a chain of 2,291296 [[home improvement warehouse]] stores in North America operated by [[The Home Depot, Inc.]], as of FebruaryJanuary 231, 20202021.<ref name=sec2019sec2020/> The first three Home Depot stores opened in the [[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]] area in 1979. Since The Home Depot, Inc. closed all of its [[EXPO Design Center]] and [[Yardbirds]] stores in 2009, Home Depot has been the company's only retail brand.<ref name=sec2008/>

The first four Home Depot stores were all located in [[The Home Depot stores in Georgia|Georgia]], with the next four opening in south [[The Home Depot stores in Florida|Florida]] in 1981.<ref name=miami-nov1981/><ref name=hdcom-1982/> With the acquisition of [[Bowater Home Centers]] in 1984, the chain grew from 22 to 31 locations and entered the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.<ref name=fortworth-1984>Stauder, Kathleen. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73179406/fort-worth-star-telegram/ "Company promotes fix-it-up idea"], [[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]], December 20, 1984, page 2C.</ref> Home Depot's store footprint in the United States grew rapidly throughout the first three decades of the chain's history, but since the {{w|Great Recession}} in the late 2000s, it has remained steady at just under 2,000 stores. The company began to expand internationally in 1994 with the acquisition of {{w|Aikenhead's Hardware}} in Canada. Home Depot also expanded into Mexico in 2001, and previously operated stores in Chile (1998–2001), Argentina (2000–2002), and China (2006–2012).<ref>[https://ir.homedepot.com/financial-reports/annual-reports/archive Annual Reports Archive] (1982–2009), homedepot.com.</ref><ref>[https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?CIK=0000354950&owner=exclude Home Depot, Inc.] company filings (1993–present), EDGAR, sec.gov.</ref>

Since the opening of the chain's first locations in [[The Home Depot stores in West Virginia|West Virginia]] in 2003, Home Depot stores have existed in all 50 U.S. states.,<ref name=sec2003/> Thereas havewell alsoas beenthe [[The Home DepotsDepot stores in allthe 32District Mexicanof statesColumbia|District sinceof Columbia]] and the firstterritories of [[The Home Depot stores openedin Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]], [[The Home Depot stores in OaxacaGuam|Guam]], and Zacatecasthe [[The Home Depot stores in 2014the U.S.<ref name=sec2014/>Virgin Islands|U.S. Virgin Islands]]. All 10 provinces of Canada exceptcurrently have Home Depot stores, with the last province to get one being [[The Home Depot stores in Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland currentlyand Labrador]] in 2005.<ref name=sec2005/> There have also been Home Depots in all 32 Mexican states since the chain's first stores opened in [[The Home Depot stores in Oaxaca|Oaxaca]] and [[The Home Depot stores in Zacatecas|Zacatecas]] in 2014.<ref name=sec2019sec2014/>

| 1/29/2006 || 1,984 || 1,793 || 137 || 54 || || || 0 || <ref name=sec2005>[https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354950/000104746906004211/a2168212z10-k.htm The Home Depot, Inc. 2005 Annual Report], via sec.gov.</ref><ref>[https://ir.homedepot.com/~/media/Files/H/HomeDepot-IR/reports-and-presentations/annual-reports/annual-report-2005.pdf The Home Depot, Inc. 2005 Annual Report], homedepot.com.</ref>

| 1/28/2007 || 2,100 || 1,872 || 155 || 61 || || || 12 || <ref name=sec2006>[https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354950/000104746907002295/a2176777z10-k.htm The Home Depot, Inc. 2006 Annual Report], via sec.gov.</ref><ref>[https://ir.homedepot.com/~/media/Files/H/HomeDepot-IR/reports-and-presentations/annual-reports/annual-report-2006.pdf The Home Depot, Inc. 2006 Annual Report], homedepot.com.</ref>

| 2/3/2008 || 2,193 || 1,950 || 165 || 66 || || || 12 || <ref name=sec2007>[https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354950/000104746908004077/a2183971z10-k.htm The Home Depot, Inc. 2007 Annual Report], via sec.gov.</ref><ref>[https://ir.homedepot.com/~/media/Files/H/HomeDepot-IR/reports-and-presentations/annual-reports/annual-report-2007.pdf The Home Depot, Inc. 2007 Annual Report], homedepot.com.</ref>