home depot

Agent orange is its nick name
it took over a decade it sell its first hammer.
1929 one of the owners imported from russia
300,000 assiciates
both owners started out poor.
berrny wanted to be a someone
Berrny was a co owner of a pharmacey and liked being on the floor than being behind the counter.
Aruther and berrny leared about how failures
1794 was when home depot was born called handy dan hardwhare
ken ladgone helped make home depot
the texas billionare put in a 2 million investment to help out home depot
They started out in alanta
june 22  1979 was the opening day
the first month it was very slow
the word got spread around fast and busness picked up very fast
it was very alive at the store
they trained thier employees to think for them selfs
in its first year the home depot lost 1 million dollers.
by the end of year 2 there was a 1 million doller profit
home depot was a sleeping giant it took other companys out.
home depot took out allot of small campanys like walmart did.
hippies protested in frount of home depts saying to stop cutting down indangerd forests, and so they changed thier polices.
home depot sponserd the olimpic usa team.
Loews gave home depot a run for its money.
more stores less service.
3 people died at home depot in one year
in 2000 home depot got a new president and ceo.
berrny bought out the atenta falcons
aruther  is worth 1.6 billio
and berrny is worth 1.3 billion