I have chosen three of the top home retail giants, who know how to target their customers’ demands: Home Depot verse Lowes and Ace hardware store, The Home Improvement battle for first place.
Before considering Home Depot, as one of the top home improvement retailer, it is important to note that Lowes is also a goliath in the retail business. On the other hand, we have a simple mom and pop hardware stores like Ace Hardware that are independently owned entrepreneur stores. These three major competitors have been matching giants of their industry for many decades, both Home Depot and Loews company sharing first and second position in the pyramid of retail hierarchy. While Ace hardware stores struggle to compete with these two giant leaders in the retail industry. I will be using a SWOT analysis that stands for: Strength, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, for each of the companies I’m writing about.
Home Depot:(SWOT). …show more content…
Some of Home Depot strengths, relies on their recognized brands, which is one of the largest home retailers in the world and the most recognized brand in the Industry today. Home Depot have grown to 2,269 stores, which 1,976 are in the United States, and 182 in Canada, plus 111 stores in Mexico. Their competitive advantage is having the highest sales of any of their competitor on the market. Their fiscal revenue exceeded over $83 billion dollars and a net profit of more than $6 billion dollars, which demonstrated a remarkable growth in stock prices in the last five years. They revolutionized the Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-For-Me, attitude. Despite this, Home Depot managed to carve its way to being one of the industry top