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- Home Depot is the largest home-improvement retailer by net sales.
- Business Insider reviewed the company’s filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to get a better sense of its scale.
- From the size of its workforce to the number of its stores, here are several mind-blowing facts about Home Depot.
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Home Depot is big.
By its own estimation, the company is the biggest home-improvement retailer in the world. To get a better sense of the company’s impact, Business Insider recently examined the company’s most recent annual filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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We were able to pick out some interesting numbers and stats from the financial filings that highlight the company’s scale.
Here are a few stats that provide a clearer glimpse of just how big Home Depot truly is:
Home Depot says that it’s "the world’s largest home-improvement retailer based on net sales" as of 2018.
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By the end of fiscal year 2018, Home Depot said that it had established 2,287 stores.
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Source: Home Depot
Those stores take up 104,000 square feet of enclosed space …
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Source: Business Insider – feedback@businessinsider.com (Áine Cain)