The Home Depot Announces Organizational Realignment to Provide a More Seamless Customer Experience, Drive Growth and Capture Market Share
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The Home Depot (HD) announced an organizational realignment to accelerate innovation and capture a share of an estimated $1.2 trillion home improvement market. The company is unifying leadership portfolios across merchandising, loyalty, finance, Pro and technology to support its strategy to drive its core business, deliver an interconnected customer experience and grow with professional customers.
Private brand merchants are moving into the core merchandising group led by EVP Billy Bastek. Credit, loyalty, online and financial services are being unified under EVP of interconnected retail Jordan Broggi. A new Office of Pro Acceleration, led by CFO Richard McPhail, will coordinate Pro-focused businesses, while EVP and CTO Fran Bell’s organization will consolidate store, supply chain and Pro product technology.
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- $1.2 trillion total addressable home improvement market targeted
- Pro customer base represents about $700 billion addressable market
- End-to-end Pro ecosystem with 2,360+ stores and 1,300 branches
- 325 customer-facing warehouses and 16,000 delivery assets supporting Pro
- Creation of unified interconnected retail organization under EVP Jordan Broggi
- Office of Pro Acceleration formed under CFO Richard McPhail to coordinate Pro growth
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Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | 24h Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15 | Halloween collection launch | Positive | +1.1% | New interactive seasonal merchandise and upgraded large-format decorations were announced. |
| Jul 08 | Delivery partnership expansion | Positive | -2.6% | Tax-free delivery expanded to more than 20,000 products across overseas military addresses. |
| May 21 | Quarterly dividend declaration | Positive | -0.2% | The board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $2.33 per share. |
| May 21 | Foundation investment | Positive | +1.0% | The Home Depot Foundation committed $5.5 million to disaster preparedness and resilience. |
| May 19 | First-quarter earnings report | Neutral | +0.9% | Sales increased while earnings declined and fiscal 2026 guidance was reaffirmed. |
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HD's recent news reactions were mixed, with two positive announcements aligning with gains and three events diverging or producing negative responses.
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"To capture greater share of this enormous opportunity, our focus is clear: drive our core and culture, deliver a frictionless interconnected experience and win the Pro," said Ted Decker, chair, president and CEO of The Home Depot. "We are aligning our organization to further support this strategy, enable smarter, faster innovation and create a more seamless customer experience for DIY and Pro customers."
With these changes, the company has unified key leadership portfolios across merchandising, loyalty, finance, pro and technology.
Core and Culture: Unified Core and Private Brands Merchandising – A key element of the company's strategy is its commitment to its core and culture to drive the best customer experience in home improvement. Customer experience starts with having the right products at superior values, which is why The Home Depot focuses on being the product authority in home improvement – delivering the best value for our customers through unmatched quality and innovative brands. To enable better product alignment, the company transitioned its private label merchants into its core merchandising organization, led by Billy Bastek, executive vice president (EVP) of merchandising. Combining product merchandising allows the company to deliver greater innovation to market even faster.
Interconnected Experience: Integrated Offerings – Increasingly, credit and loyalty programs have become a critical part of the interconnected shopping experience. The Home Depot is aligning its customer experience, online, financial services and loyalty teams into a unified interconnected organization, led by Jordan Broggi, EVP of interconnected retail.
By combining these capabilities, the company can offer customers more personalized, seamless financial offers and shopping experiences better tailored to their needs – building increased loyalty and customer satisfaction no matter how they choose to shop. This alignment helps ensure that as customers' shopping habits evolve, The Home Depot's ecosystem evolves with them—delivering more value, ease and consistency from project start to finish.
Win the Pro: The Office of Pro Acceleration – The Pro customer represents an approximately
To advance its enterprise-wide Pro growth strategy, The Home Depot is evolving its Office of Integration into the Office of Pro Acceleration, led by Richard McPhail, EVP and chief financial officer. This office will spearhead coordination across Home Depot Pro, HD Supply, SRS and Construction Resources to further develop shared enterprise capabilities including enhanced customer relationship management, a shared product catalog and optimized fulfillment across its businesses. Ultimately, the office will help ensure every part of the business works together seamlessly on behalf of the Pro.
Technology Alignment Powering Growth: Technology innovation supports all three pillars of The Home Depot's growth strategy. Earlier this year, the company appointed Fran Bell as EVP and chief technology officer, combining AI, data science, product management, user experience and technology into a unified organization. As part of this continued alignment, the store, supply chain and Pro product technology teams will move into Fran's organization, enabling the company to bring new technology to market faster.
About The Home Depot
The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer. At the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2026, the company operated a total of 2,361 retail stores and over 1,280 SRS locations across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. The Company employs over 470,000 associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index.
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All statements made in this release that are not historical constitute "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on currently available information and current assumptions, expectations and projections of The Home Depot (the "company") about future events, and use words such as "may," "will," "could," "should," "would," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "project," "plan," "believe," "expect," "target," "prospects," "potential," "commit" and "forecast," or words of similar import or meaning or refer to future time periods. They are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to future events, risks and uncertainties – many of which are beyond the company's control, dependent on the actions of third parties, or unknown to the company – as well as potentially inaccurate assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described in the "Risk Factors" section and elsewhere in the company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, and also as described from time to time in reports subsequently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company encourages you to review these filings. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the company does not undertake to update these statements other than as required by law. You are advised, however, to review any further disclosures the company makes on related subjects in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in its other public disclosures.
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