Bernie Marcus cofounded the Atlanta-based Home Depot chain of home-improvement stores and supported many charitable causes such as the Marcus Jewish Community Center.

(WANF/Gray News) - Bernie Marcus ... Within two years The Home Depot went public. Today the retail chain has more than 2,300 stores in North America. Marcus retired from actively working at ...

A man of second acts, Marcus started Home Depot after getting fired from another retailer. He then became a philanthropist, a ...

(WANF/Gray News) - Bernie ... Marcus, Blank and Langone founded The Home Depot, and opened their first-ever two stores in Atlanta on June 22, 1979. Within two years The Home Depot went public. Today ...

ATLANTA — Bernard "Bernie" Marcus, the co-founder of The Home Depot and a Republican megadonor ... story and other breaking news in Atlanta and north Georgia.

He knew Marcus for decades. “Bernie not only (had ... he put his Atlanta and North Carolina homes up for sale. A born showman who never met a microphone he didn’t like, Marcus was an eternal ...