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The Home Depot Pro, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, is one of the largest wholesale distributors and direct marketers of maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products for non-industrial businesses in the United States. The Home Depot Pro distributes a broad range of products such as HVAC, janitorial supplies, plumbing supplies and ...

Stats for Home Depot Canada. I was at a Home Depot store grand opening yesterday where company executives stated that this was the 159th store in Canada and that HD Canada now employs over 30,000 people. I corrected the line to read "The Canadian operation consists of 159 stores and employs over 30,000 people in Canada."

Home Depot, after changing its CEO from Bob Nardelli to Frank Blake, decided to sell HD Supply in order to raise capital to repurchase Home Depot stock and shore up the stock price. In 2007, the HD Supply was purchased by private equity firms Bain Capital , The Carlyle Group , and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice , and continued to operate as HD Supply.

Lowe's is the second-largest hardware chain in the United States (previously the largest in the U.S. until surpassed by The Home Depot in 1989) behind rival The Home Depot and ahead of Menards. It is also the second-largest hardware chain in the world, also behind The Home Depot but ahead of European retailers Leroy Merlin, B&Q, and OBI.