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In 2002, The Home Depot introduced
three Home Depot Landscape Supply
stores. These stores serve landscape
professionals and garden enthusiasts with certified nursery experts
and carry a wide selection of lawn, landscape and garden products,
including live goods, chemicals, tools, landscaping materials and
irrigation systems.
Your “other” Warehouse
(YOW) is one of the country’s
premier plumbing distributors,
with a focus on fast turnaround, broad product assortment, and
special-order fulfillment. YOW currently supplies EXPO and the
U.S. divisions of The Home Depot with special-order faucets and
plumbing fixtures.
With a national sales force,
catalog and on-line operations,
Maintenance Warehouse is the
industry leader in supplying building repair and replacement products
at the lowest wholesale prices to owners and managers of multi-
housing, lodging and commercial properties in the United Sates.
In 2002, The Home Depot
tapped the residential home-
builders market by acquiring three of the top 10 turnkey providers
of installed flooring for new residential construction in the United
States: Arvada Hardwood Floor Company; Floors, Inc. and Floorworks,
Inc. These three companies have relationships with 17 of the nation’s
top 20 homebuilders, and operate in three of the 15 largest new
home construction markets in the country. These acquisitions make
The Home Depot the largest turnkey supplier of flooring to the resi-
dential construction market.
Apex Supply Company is a wholesale
distributor of plumbing, HVAC, industrial
pipe, valves and fittings and appliances.
Based in Atlanta, GA, the Company
has branches and showrooms in Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and
South Carolina.
In 2001, The Home Depot established Home Depot Supply, which is geared
specifically to the needs of the professional and contractor customer. Each of
the five current locations has separate areas dedicated to electrical, plumbing,
paint, millwork, hardware, lumber and building materials.