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.
Founded in 1978, The Home Depot, Inc. is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer with fiscal 2015 retail sales of $88.5 billion and earnings of $7.0 billion.