OAN Staff James Meyers
8:29 AM – Tuesday, November 5, 2024
The co-founder of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, has died at the age of 95.
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Marcus, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who rose from a tenement in Newark, N.J., to create one of the world’s biggest and most recognizable brands, the Home Depot Corporation, died late Monday at his home in Boca Raton, Florida.
Marcus is best known as one of the founders of Home Depot, teaming up with financier Ken Langone and Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank to create from scratch a company that employs almost 500,000 people working in thousands of stores across the U.S.
“The entire Home Depot family is deeply…
