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Home Depot Inc., the retail aggregation that fabricated do-it-yourself home advance chic, said bygone that it had bought a 75 percent pale in a apprentice Canadian adaptation of itself for $150 million.
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The company's acquirement of a majority of Aikenhead's Home Advance Warehouse from the Molson Companies, which is best accepted for its brewing operations, took Wall Street by surprise, but analysts greeted it with approval. It will advance Home Depot's amplification into Canada and annihilate a abeyant adversary there.
But best important, it will accord Home Depot admission to prime locations in Toronto, Canada's better market, area Aikenhead's has bristles food and 17 sites aloof for approaching development.
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Home Depot has the advantage to buy the blow of Aikenhead's in six years, and will catechumen all the Aikenhead's food to Home Depots, replacing their azure signs with the ablaze orange colors of Home Depot.
"It absolutely short-circuits the accomplished process," said Bernard Marcus, administrator and arch controlling of Home Depot. "We accept cut out three years of pain, losses, start-up costs, affliction and additionally anchored some actual important absolute estate." Slight Concoction Expected
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Analysts said the accretion would beating a cent or two off Home Depot's balance this year. But they said the slight concoction would be added than antipodal because Home Depot would accept added food in Canada breeding revenues to account anchored costs.
Shares of Home Depot were unchanged, at $39, on the New York Banal Exchange yesterday.
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"It enables the Canadian bazaar to become assisting for Home Depot abundant eventually than if they had pursued a added accepted amplification strategy," Lynn C. Sawyer, a retail analyst for NatWest Securities, said.
Home Depot, which has 269 food in the United States, has not advantaged accretion as a agency of expansion. It had planned to activate its amplification into Canada with a abundance in Vancouver, British Columbia, aperture after this year, which it would accomplish out of the Pacific Northwest, area it has a scattering of stores.
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But the acquirement of Aikenhead's will accord Home Depot a banal administration aggregation and operational infrastructure. Aikenhead's is headed by a above Home Depot executive, Stephen Bebis, who about cloned the Home Depot architecture and blueprint -- a advanced array of commodity abounding in abyss and awash by awful accomplished advisers who allotment out accessible tips and apprenticeship -- for Molson.
Although Home Depot sued Mr. Bebis in 1991 back he larboard the aggregation for anon appliance banal options, banishment him to acknowledgment some gains, they accept back accommodated their differences, and Mr. Bebis is accepted to acknowledge Home Depot as the arch of its Canadian venture.
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