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January 25, 2006
Whats Home Depots Impact?
Growth into distribution channels raises more questions than answers
By Lindsay Young
The announcement this month that The Home Depot has made its biggest foray yet into wholesale distribution with plans to buy Hughes Supply has created a stir. Will Home Depot Supply succeed and do to a largely fragmented wholesale market what it and the other big-box giant Lowes did for do-it-yourself markets? Should industrial distributors be worried as HD inches closer to their market?
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