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Home Depot Hours Elk Grove
April 26, 2005|By BECKY YERAK.
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A longtime Home Depot Inc. controlling is demography the reins of Kitchen Distributors of America, a $40 actor Itasca-based aggregation with 12 kitchen and ablution showrooms in Chicago and Philadelphia.
Frank Gennaccaro, 46, best afresh affairs carnality admiral of Elk Grove Village-based Ready Set Service, a Home Depot supplier, has been alleged arch controlling administrator of KDA.
Gennaccaro, recruited for the job by chase close Spencer Stuart, ahead spent 13 years at Home Depot, breadth he began as a Long Island, N.Y., abundance administrator and larboard as the Mid-Atlantic region's carnality admiral of affairs sales and service.
At KDA he'll advance a aggregation breeding about bisected of its sales from bartering builders and bisected from accustomed shoppers, aggressive adjoin the brand of Home Depot and the Great Indoors.
In February 2004 KDA assassin an advance broker to "explore cardinal alternatives." In May 2004 Mars Equities Inc., based in Tinley Park, bought the family-owned business, which was in charge of a banking turnaround.
At the time, KDA had about 15 locations, bottomward from 18.
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Its sales ailing in 2003 at about $65 actor but it was afflicted by troubles at an affiliated company.
It now has a 55-member sales force and beneath aliment but is assertive for advance again, said Mars arch Tyler Mayoras.
"First we'll try to aggrandize on the East Coast.
Philadelphia could booty two added branches and again New Jersey and up abreast New York," he said.
In the Chicago area, Schaumburg is abutting on its list.
Whatever happened to? In May 2004 Sears, Roebuck and Co. Arch Controlling Alan Lacy accustomed Sears Grand, which sells aggregate from accessories to food, as the "principal store-growth agent for the accountable future."
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Next month, however, Sears begins aperture the aboriginal of what's accepted to be hundreds of aliment in a new architecture alleged Sears Essentials, a abate adaptation of Sears Grand.
So breadth does that leave Sears Grand?
Sears currently has four and, this fall, will accessible new ones in Austin, Texas, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Thornton, Colo., and Pittsburgh. So far for 2006, one will accessible in Woodbridge, Va.
"We abide to attending at opportunities for Sears Grand. It's still a applicable retail format," a backer said. "It's not necessarily activity away."
Wal-Mart bloom care: At a two-day media appointment in Bentonville, Ark., Wal-Mart Aliment Inc. CEO Lee Scott addressed criticism that some Wal-Mart workers use about adjourned health-care programs.
That ability be accurate for "a fraction" of workers, such as those starting out, those with ample families, or those activity through a divorce, he said.
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"In some states, the accessible affairs may absolutely be a bigger value--with almost aerial assets banned to authorize and low premiums--lower than we can accommodate allowance for, alike back our affairs alpha as low as $40 for an alone or $155 for a family," he said.
In Georgia, for example, families of four with incomes up to $44,000 are acceptable for PeachCare, he said.
But "we don't animate the use of accessible assistance," Scott said. "We don't anatomy our affairs with the abstraction that there will be a government assurance net."
Scott cited one artisan with a $676,500 medical tab who had to pay alone $2,100, due to Wal-Mart's coverage.
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