The video, titled “Got off the dating apps to find me a blue collar man at Home Depot," has since generated nearly 6 million ...

In 1978, he came up with the idea of a warehouse-style store that would appeal to the do-it-yourself homeowner. With a ...

His chain of warehouse-style stores used cavernous interiors, low prices to lure customers.

Bernard Marcus, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who rose from a tenement in Newark, N.J., to create one of the world’s ...

The billionaire, a major donor to Republican politicians, accumulated his fortune by starting The Home Depot with Arthur ...

The Republican donor was also a prolific philanthropist whose numerous gifts included funds to build the Georgia Aquarium in ...

Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus (left) and co-founder Arthur Blank in 1997. They weren’t the first to build a “big box” store. They weren’t even the first to have a home impr ...

At age 49, Marcus gained his fortune from establishing The Home Depot with Arthur Blank, the Atlanta Falcons owner, in 1978.

Home Depot with its 2,300 locations is the nation ... he floated 50 years ago to Langone after he was fired as CEO of a hardware chain — doesn’t do total justice to Marcus’ legacy.

About 2 p.m., firefighters received a call of an incident inside the hardware store on State Highway 121, near the ...

Marcus, whom Forbes has previously listed as the richest man in Georgia, became wealthy after he and Arthur Blank opened the first two Home Depot stores in 1979 in Atlanta. The hardware store ...

They both were fired after new management came in, so the duo hatched a plan to start a new chain that was bigger than traditional hardware stores with better-trained staff. Then, the Home Depot ...