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Aug 2, 2020 · Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus were fired from Handy Dan Home Improvement in 1978, but they started Home Depot with their low-price and well-trained employee idea. Home Depot became a huge success and made them both billionaires.
Oct 10, 2008 · In 1978, when co-founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank stated that they wanted to make The Home Depot the Sears Roebuck of the home-improvement industry, a lot of people...
Learn how The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer, started from a coffee shop in Los Angeles in 1978. Discover the vision, values and achievements of its co-founders, Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, and their team.
Jan 19, 2023 · He said, 'You and Arthur (Blank, the CFO who was also fired) are great retailers, so be smart and walk away.'" The firing pushed Marcus to realize the dream he had been secretly working on...
When The Home Depot was founded in 1978, Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank had no idea how revolutionary this new “hardware store” would be for home improvement and the retail industry. Today, we’re proud to be the world’s largest home improvement retailer.
Dec 29, 2022 · Modern counterparts of Marcus and Blank are still out there, the veteran retailer believes. But there is no longer as much incentive to take the risks they took when they opened two stores in...
Aug 31, 2020 · Forty-two years after he set off to found a bigger and better hardware store with Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank still thinks of the world's largest home improvement retailer, Home Depot, as his...
