1. The Home Depot Announces Plans for 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
ATLANTA, March 14, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- The Home Depot(R), the world's largest home
improvement retailer, today announced that it will hold its 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Thursday, May 24 in
Atlanta, Georgia. The meeting will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Cobb Galleria Centre.
Additional details regarding the shareholder meeting will be available when the Company files its proxy statement. An audio
webcast of the meeting will be available for shareholders who are unable to attend.
The Home Depot(R) is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, with 2,164 retail stores in all 50 states, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico and China. Through its HD Supply(SM)
businesses, The Home Depot is also one of the largest diversified wholesale distributors in the United States, with nearly 1,000
locations in the United States and Canada offering products and services for building, improving and maintaining homes,
businesses and municipal infrastructures. In fiscal 2006, The Home Depot had sales of $90.8 billion and earnings of $5.8
billion. 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. HDG
SOURCE Home Depot
Financial Community, Diane Dayhoff, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations,
+1-770-384-2666, or diane_dayhoff@homedepot.com, or Media, Jerry Shields, Sr. PR
Manager, +1-770-384-2741, or jerry_shields@homedepot.com, or Paula Drake, PR Manager,
+1-770-384-3439, or paula_drake@homedepot.com, all of Home Depot
http://www.homedepot.com
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