Alumni, Retiring President Honored. Retiring President David L. Soltz and Roberta âRobbieâ L. Soltz, Ph.D., were recently named 2017 honorary alumnus and alumna, at the annual Bloomsburg University Alumni Awards Dinner.
Origins, Locations, and Customer-base. Despite being the larger of the pair, The Home Depot, Inc. (HD) was actually founded over 30 years later than Loweâs Companies, Inc. (LOW)âHome Depot in 1978 and Loweâs in 1946. Since then, Home Depot has grown to 2,269 stores, of which 1,976 are in the United States, 182 are in Canada, and 111 are in Mexico.
A description of each of these types of stores is as follows: Home Depot stores sell a wide assortment of building materials, home improvement and lawn and garden products and provide a number of services. Home Depot stores average approximately 106,000 square feet of enclosed space, with approximately 22,000 additional square feet in the outside garden area.