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BOYCOTT ISRAEL CAMPAIGN |
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HOME DEPOT |
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PRODUCTS & AFFILIATED
COMPANIES:
| Home Depot retails stores |
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| EXPO Design Centers |
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| Villager’s Hardware stores |
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| Apex Supply Company |
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| Georgia Lighting |
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| Maintenance Warehouse |
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| National Blinds and Wallpaper |
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RESEARCH FINDINGS :
The Home Depot is the world’s largest home improvement retailer
and the second largest retailer in the United States, with sales
of $45.7 billion. The Home Depot operates 1,134 retail locations,
including 1,029 Home Depot stores in the United States, 67 Home
Depot stores in Canada and 7 Home Depot stores in South America.
The Company also operated 26 EXPO Design Centers, 4 Villager’s
Hardware stores and 1 Home Depot Floor Store. In addition, the Company
operated wholly-owned sub-sidiaries Apex Supply Company, Georgia
Lighting , Maintenance Warehouse and National Blinds and Wallpaper.
The Company employed approximately 227,000 people. [2]
Its founder, and Co-Chairman of the Board Bernard Marcus is an
active zionist. He is on the board of directors of Emet, the Pro-Israel
Media "War Room" whos function is to ensure that all media
in the US stays biased in favour of Israel.[1]
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ADDITIONAL INFO &
REFs :
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The World
August 18, 2001
http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/08-18-01/opening_5.asp.
A group of American business and political leaders are building
a pro-Israel media "war room" in Washington, D.C.
The group will be called "Emet"-which in Hebrew
means "truth."
Emet will try to address biased media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict and also make the case that the conflict, while serious
and important, pales in comparison to the larger geo-strategic
threat posed to the United States and the West by Iran and
Iraq, both of whom are trying to build and/or acquire weapons
of mass destruction.
Funding Emet is Leonard Abramson; he sold U.S. Healthcare
to Aetna in the mid-1990s for $8.9 billion. Abramson has recruited
a powerful board of directors, including Bernie Marcus, founder
of Home Depot; Les Wexner, founder of The Limited; Edgar Bronfman
Sr., who once owned Seagram's; and Lou Ranieri, a major Wall
Street player who now co-owns one of Israel's largest banks.
Also joining the board are Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S.
Ambassador to the UN, and Jack Kemp.
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| [2] |
Home Depot Annual Report 2000 available on their website |
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Additional information from Yahoo Finance:
Bernard Marcus is a co-founder of The Home Depot and had
served as Co-Chairman of the Board. From inception of the
Company in 1978 until 1997, he had served as Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive Officer, at which time the title
of CEO was passed on to Mr. Arthur M. Blank. In December 2000,
Mr. Marcus became Co-Chairman of the Board (salary in 2001
$900,000). Mr. Marcus serves as a director on the boards of
ChoicePoint Inc., and Westfield America, Inc.
source:
http://yahoo.marketguide.com/MGI/compens.asp?target=%2Fstocks%2Fcompanyinformation
%2Fofficersanddirectors%2Fcompens&Ticker=HD&rt=compens&rn=4366N#Offr_49895
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URL:
http://www.inminds.com/boycott-home-depot.html
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