Home Depot Targeting Millennials with New Service Hub

Retailers all across the building trade are trying to find new ways to reach millennial customers and Home Depot’s New Homeowners Hub is the latest tactic to try. As the millennial generation becomes the center of the housing market, home improvement, furnishings, and building businesses continue to look for new ways to reach out to […]

Why the Home Depot Results Are Good for the Home Improvement Category

Even though its sales for the most recent quarter were slightly down, there were many positive things in Home Depot’s second quarter earnings results. If there is one retailer most closely followed by those in the lumber and wood products sectors it is Home Depot. So, its second quarter results, released last week, were studied […]

What Do the New Home Depot and Lowe’s Results Mean for the Building Business?

The new financial results from the two big home improvement chains show both the pro and do-it-yourself building sectors have slowed down…but it’s not all bad news. If the building industry needed any more proof of the slowdown in the construction sector they didn’t have to look any further than the new first-quarter financial results […]

Lumber Now #4 Business for Home Depot

The home improvement giant has grown its revenue in this key category from its sixth largest classification to now its fourth biggest over the past decade. Everyone knows Home Depot is the biggest retailer in the home improvement sector but a recent analysis of their business over the past decade shows a dramatic rise in […]