Bernie Marcus, who co-founded the Home Depot chain with Arthur Blank in 1978 with the help of early investor Ken Langone, has ...

The Home Depot co-founder Bernard "Bernie" Marcus, one of the region’s biggest benefactors, has died. He was 95 years old.

Bernie Marcus, the billionaire who cofounded Home Depot and became a Republican megadonor and supporter of civic and ...

In 1978, he came up with the idea of a warehouse-style store that would appeal to the do-it-yourself homeowner. With a ...

A man of second acts, Marcus started Home Depot after getting fired from another retailer. He then became a philanthropist, a Republican megadonor and an evangelist of capitalism.

Bernie Marcus, the co-founder and former CEO of the Atlanta-based home improvement retailer chain Home Depot, has died at the ...

Bernard Marcus, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who rose from a tenement in Newark, N.J., to create one of the world’s ...

Marcus’ meteoric rise began as he was approaching his 50th birthday, when he and Blank were abruptly fired after a run-in with their boss in 1978. “Bernie got whacked,” Blank said in a 2005 interview, ...

A top donor to Donald Trump, he boosted the fortunes of downtown Atlanta and supported health care and democracy in Israel.

Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the billionaire Home Depot cofounder and a Republican megadonor, who in recent years became an ...