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Byline: Michael E. Kanell michael.kanell@ajc.com Before Home Depot, the world of home improvement was fragmented, the stores smaller, the businesses often owned locally and unlikely to have everything you might [...]

Byline: Christopher Burns Nov. 14A man was found dead outside the Home Depot in Windham on Tuesday morning. The man was found unresponsive outside the store on Franklin Drive about [...]

Byline: Michael E. Kanell michael.kanell@ajc.com Home Depot on Tuesday reported sales of $40.2 billion and net earnings of $3.8 billion for the third fiscal quarter, results that were better than [...]

Byline: Matt Kempner matthew.kempner@ajc.com Long before he was a billionaire, Bernie Marcus immigrant mother stressed to her young American-born son how important it was to help others in need. The [...]

Byline: Matt Kempner matthew.kempner@ajc.com Bernie Marcus funeral attracted a crowd of current and former Home Depot acolytes in their orange aprons, nonprofit leaders, titans of the Atlanta corporate world, the [...]

Byline: Matt Kempner matthew.kempner@ajc.com A funeral for Bernie Marcus, a Home Depot co-founder and a leading philanthropist, will be held today in Atlanta. The service is scheduled for 1 p.m. [...]

Byline: Jim Tharpe For the AJC and Matt Kempner matthew.kempner@ajc.com He was lousy with tools but built the worlds largest chain of hardware stores. He never owned a home aquarium [...]

Byline: Savannah Sicurella savannah.sicurella@ajc.com Bernie Marcus made his billions co-founding Home Depot with his partner, Arthur Blank, creating one of the largest companies in Georgia. But civic and business leaders [...]

In 1978, he came up with the idea of a warehouse-style store that would appeal to the do-it-yourself homeowner. It became the world’s largest home-improvement retailer. Bernie Marcus, who came [...]

Byline: Cade Higgins Nov. 5LIMA Lima's Menards home improvement location, 2614 N. Eastown Rd, will join those across the nation serving as Toy Drive drop sites throughout the month of [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Bernie Marcus, a Home Depot co-founder who tried to coax customers into the first store with dollar bills and helped grow the warehouse-style home supply chain into [...]

Byline: Pawan Naidu As True Value tries to win approval to sell 'substantially all' of its business operations to Indiana-based home improvement competitor Do It Best, the Chicago-based retailer says [...]

Byline: Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY They're hard to miss this time of year - and not just because they tower at 12 feet tall. Skelly, the nickname given to [...]

Byline: By, Conor Knell Home improvement retailer Wickes opened a new store in Leamington Spa on Saturday as part of an ongoing investment. Located at Ashbourne Drive in Leamington Spa, [...]