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Expanding into new markets, new platforms and new geographies means better servicing existing
customers and attracting new ones, opening a whole new world of opportunity.
Leading: For some, being the world’s largest home improvement retailer is a goal. For us, it represents an
opportunity. We are the #1 home improvement retailer in Mexico and Canada. And we will lead the way – with
innovation and excellence – as we continue to explore other markets. We are paving the way – capturing and
creating market opportunity in the international and professional arena.
Changing: Strategic acquisitions have created a unique value chain in the professional space, offering
products and services from infrastructure to lifetime maintenance. A general contractor developing a planned
community can look to National Waterworks to provide the pipe for water and sewer lines, to White Cap
Expand
the market