Throwback Thursday is a regular weekly feature in which we dip into the archives of the Hardlines Weekly Report.
Ten years ago, in June 2015, we reported on an acquisition that Home Depot had made in Atlanta. The world’s largest home improvement retailer had just bought Interline Brands, a Florida-based company that distributed products to the maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) market. Under the terms of the deal, Home Depot acquired Interline for US$1.625 billion in cash. Bill Lennie, president of Home Depot’s Canadian division at the time, was made EVP of the new acquisition.
