{"id":213,"date":"2012-03-12T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2012\/03\/home-center-snapshot-the-home-depot-inc\/"},"modified":"2012-03-12T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:21:00","slug":"home-center-snapshot-the-home-depot-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/03\/home-center-snapshot-the-home-depot-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: The Home Depot Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><br \/>\n2455 Paces Ferry Rd NW<br \/>\nAtlanta, GA 30339-1834<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telephone:<\/strong><br \/>\n770 433-8211<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internet Homepage:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/\">http:\/\/www.homedepot.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Total Store Count:<\/strong><br \/>\n2,252<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales<\/strong>:<br \/>\n$70,395,000,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executive<\/strong>:<br \/>\nFrancis S Blake- Chairman, CEO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Normally snapshots list two to three company executives.\u00a0 In this case listing just one is most fitting.\u00a0 Since taking over at the top of the industry\u2019s perennial leader and near icon, Francis S. Blake has quietly restored the company\u2019s financials to a most admirable position with forecasts raising positive expectations for the first times in years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, when the previous administration was unceremoniously removed after issuing a $121 million parachute to its CEO, few industry experts saw much brightness in the near term for Home Depot.\u00a0 When Francis Blake immediately acceded to the top of the company, the industry was already reeling from the fallout of the subprime scandal. \u00a0The then coming recession proved to be the worst economic storm since the Great Depression and only exacerbated the common fears that Home Depot\u2019s recovery was nowhere in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Blake however took swift and stunningly strong action by rapidly disposing of earlier, now burdensome pro dealer acquisitions.\u00a0 Under Blake the company studied where it had gone astray from its roots prior to the onslaught of the subprime mess.\u00a0 It quickly and surprisingly scuttled its EXPO Design Centers concept and removed all retail operations that were not traditional Home Depot including any trace of the convenience stores with which the previous administration had been experimenting.<\/p>\n<p>As the previous administration had significantly cut jobs, ostensibly to improve the bottom line, Blake began to recruit top line, experienced associates and returned to in-depth training programs for new and veteran employees.<\/p>\n<p>After several quarters of very troubling reports and a confused outlook on the market, Home Depot\u2019s recent financials present the picture of a company which has managed to emerge from an internally gloomy era, survived the subprime crisis and rebuilt itself during a recession that has spared few in this industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: 2455 Paces Ferry Rd NW Atlanta, GA 30339-1834 Telephone: 770 433-8211 Internet Homepage: http:\/\/www.homedepot.com Current Total Store Count: 2,252 Total Annual Sales: $70,395,000,000 Senior Executive: Francis S Blake- Chairman, CEO &nbsp; Normally snapshots list two to three company executives.\u00a0 In this case listing just one is most fitting.\u00a0 Since taking over at the top&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/03\/home-center-snapshot-the-home-depot-inc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Company Snapshot: The Home Depot Inc.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-hardware","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}