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Home Depot Classes The Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Ron Brill, and Pat Farrah. The Home Depot�s proposition was to build home-improvement warehouses, larger than any of their competitors� facilities. Investment banker Ken Langone helped Marcus and Blank to secure the necessary capital.

�Bernie and I founded Home Depot Classes with a special vision � to create a company that would keep alive the values that were important to us. Values like respect among all people, excellent customer service and giving back to communities and society.�

rthur Blank

In 1979, the first two stores, built in spaces leased from J. C. Penney that were originally Treasure Island �hypermarket� (discount department and grocery) stores, opened in metro Atlanta on June 21. Two more opened not long after, and all four shared the space under the �squiggly� zig-zag roof with Zayre on its right side. The first headquarters was on Terrell Mill Road on the southeast side of Marietta, Georgia, just down from one of the stores at the corner of Cobb Parkway. (That store [335423 842914 / 33.9065N 84.4872W / 33.9065; -84.4872 (former location of The Home Depot's first store (Marietta Plaza, 1979))], in the Marietta Plaza strip mall, became Value City, changing to Burlington Coat Factory in 2008; part was also a short-lived Little Bucks, in which Brill had a stake.)

Since the 1990s, its current headquarters (335154 842855 / 33.865N 84.482W / 33.865; -84.482 (The Home Depot, headquarters)) is a complex of high-rise buildings on Paces Ferry Road, on the western edge of the Cumberland/Galleria edge city in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, across Interstate 285 from the town of Vinings, and served by mail from Atlanta. The tallest is approximately 85 metres (280 ft) high, the fourth-tallest in the Vinings area.

In 2000, after the retirement of Marcus and Blank, Robert Nardelli was appointed chairman, president, and CEO. Nardelli was replaced in January 2007 by Frank Blake.

In 2007 the Home Depot Classes sold its USD $ 13 billion revenue wholesale (trade) division, HD Supply, to a consortium of three private equity firms, The Carlyle Group, Bain Capital and Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (with each agreeing to buy a one-third stake in the division). Home Depot sold their wholesale construction supply business to fund a stock repurchase estimated at $ 40 billion