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After the two were fired, Marcus and Blank founded Home Depot in 1978, with Marcus serving as the company's first CEO. The pair in Home Depot aprons. Rob Kinmonth/The LIFE Images Collection via ...
In April 1978, he and future Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank were fired during a corporate power struggle at Handy Dan. [11] [12] In 1978, they co-founded the home-improvement retailer Home Depot, with the help of merchandising expert Pat Farrah and New York investment banker Ken Langone who assembled a group of investors. The first two ...
Marcus was Home Depot’s CEO until 1997 and served as the company’s chairman until his retirement in 2002. The Home Depot got its start in Atlanta, a city where Marcus was a well-known ...
Robert Louis Nardelli (born May 17, 1948) is an American businessman who was the CEO of Freedom Group from September 2010 to March 2012. Prior to that role, Nardelli served as chairman and CEO of Chrysler from August 2007 to April 2009 and CEO of The Home Depot from December 2000 to January 2007.
Arthur Morris Blank (born September 27, 1942) is an American businessman.He is best known for being a co-founder of the home improvement retailer The Home Depot. [2]Blank owns two professional sports teams based in Atlanta, Georgia – the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL) and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer (MLS), the latter of which won the 2018 MLS Cup [3 ...
Former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli is sounding alarm bells over the thousands of Americans being culled from the workforce this year. “We’re seeing people being laid off,” Nardelli recently ...
In October 2020, Decker became president and chief operating officer at Home Depot. [7] Decker was announced as the new CEO and president at Home Depot in January 2022 after 22 years with the company. Decker's appointment to the position coincided with renewed demand for home improvement materials following a lull spurred by the COVID-19 ...
‘Keep it simple, stupid’: Former Home Depot CEO says Trump’s proposals resonate with all Americans ‘dying under 9.1% inflation.’ Here’s the real story behind the US affordability crisis