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Home Depot to close 15 U.S. stores, including Findlay, Lima locations

01.05.2008 16:01 Shopping - Source: toledoblade.com

ATLANTA - The Home Depot is closing 15 of its namesake stores, affecting 1,300 employees. It is the first time the home improvement retailer has closed a flagship store for performance reasons.

The Atlanta-based company said Thursday that the underperforming U.S. stores being closed represent fewer than 1 percent of its existing stores. They will be shuttered within the next two months.

The stores to be closed consist of three in Wisconsin, two in Ohio, two in New Jersey, two in Indiana and one each in Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, New York and Vermont. The Ohio stores are in Findlay and Lima.

A company spokesman said some employees will be relocated, while others could lose their jobs.

Spokesman Ron DeFeo said Home Depot has closed only one of its flagship stores previously because of structural damage.

The company reiterated its intention to open 55 new stores in the 2009 fiscal year.

Due to the store closings, Home Depot will record a charge of roughly $186 million, including inventory markdowns of $11 million and severance of $8 million. It also will record a charge of roughly $400 million related to development costs and ongoing obligations associated with the future store locations that it is scrapping.

New store capital spending will be reduced by $1 billion over the next three years, Home Depot said.

Excluding charges, the company reiterated that its earnings per share from continuing operations are expected to decline by 19 percent to 24 percent for fiscal 2008. Home Depot releases its first-quarter results May 20.

Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement store chain. It operates 2,258 stores in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China.

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