Home Depot - A Brand name in itself

People need to understand the exclusive and extensive line of products/merchandise/services Home Depot offers to their customers. Named brands such as; Husky (tools), Pegasus, (kitchen/bath items­), Hampton Bay (outdoor furniture/lighting), BEHR paint and their very own store brand product line Eco Options all offer warrantees and guarantees within their product line as well as the warrantees Home Depot offers to their customers. Since 2006 Home Depot started and funded Fuel Centers at some of their stores across the country. These fuel centers sold more than just gas but also named brand sodas (Pepsi, Coke, etc.. , beers (Budweiser, Coors, etc.) , cold/hot food and even a carwash service they provided that was large enough to clean trucks large and small that deal with moving materials daily. I personally think Home Depot really goes out of their way for their customers by providing these kinds of services and product line on a seven day a week basis as well as really going out of the way with their store warrantees on each item.

Who do you like better, Home Depot or Lowes?

A tough year for home-improvement retailers just got tougher. Home Depot (HD) reported soft second-quarter earnings on Aug. 15 and cautioned that it expects only slight gains for the rest of 2006 (see BusinessWeek.com, 8/16/06, "Wal-Mart, Home Depot Hit Potholes"). Fast-forward nearly one week, and it's a similar story: Lowe's (LOW) echoed its larger rival on Aug. 21, posting lackluster second-quarter results and warning of a sales slowdown.

- reported from BusinessWeek.com

The Home Depot Team

A Team. A Future. A Career. What Will You Build? Welcome to The Home Depot Companies career pages. If you're looking to build a great career, you've come to the right place! Whatever your career aspirations - whether it's part-time sales, managing a store of 200+ associates or heading up a team of IT professionals - The Home Depot offers all the challenge, opportunity, diversity, and growth you're looking for.

"Eco Options"

Home Depot is taking an active part in helping to improve our environment with its new line of products called “eco options.” “Eco Options” is divided into five categories of products. Each product in this line has less of an impact on our environment than competing products. Home Depot specially marks these products so that they are easy to find.

• The first category “sustainable forestry” is composed of wood products that are certified by the FSP (Forest Stewardship Council). This means that all of the wood products come from forests that where responsibly managed by people who took the environment into account when making decisions.



• The next category, “energy efficient” refers to solar and energy star products that use a lot less energy than the leading product. Because they use less energy, these products will greatly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions emitted into the air and save you a lot of money.



• “Healthy Home” is made up of environmentally safe garden products and household cleaners.



• “Clean Air” are products you can place in your home to improve air and help reduce emissions that contribute to climate change. These products include paints and Energy Star filters and heaters.



• “Water” Conservation” are products that use water efficiently.