The Home Depot to Host Second Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call on August 14

ATLANTA, July 31, 2012 /CNW/ - The Home Depot®, the world's largest home improvement retailer, announced today that it will hold its Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call on Tuesday, August 14, at 9 a.m. ET.

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A webcast will be available by logging onto http://earnings.homedepot.com and selecting the Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call icon. The webcast will be archived and available beginning at approximately noon on August 14.

The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, with 2,255 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico and China. In fiscal 2011, The Home Depot had sales of $70.4 billion and earnings of $3.9 billion. The Company employs more than 300,000 associates. 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.

SOURCE: The Home Depot

Financial Community: Diane Dayhoff, Vice President of Investor Relations, [phone], [email protected]; News Media: Paula Drake, Director of Corporate Communications, [phone], [email protected]

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