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Home Depot Direct

Home Depot Direct offers customers expanded merchandise selection and extra time convenience through website and catalog shopping, with direct product delivery to the home, office or job site. It also provides customers with valuable online information about home improvement topics and merchandise for sale in local The Home Depot stores.

Its primary website is located at www.homedepot.com. This site offers an assortment of products available for sale, information about its products and projects, calculators to estimate the amount and kinds of materials needed to complete a project, as well as information about The Home Depot (including store locations and hours of operation) and links to other Home Depot Direct on-line businesses. The focus of this website is on providing products, information and customer service. We believe our Internet site provides us with an opportunity to build relationships with, and educate, our customers, improve service, and provide convenient shopping from home and increase store sales.

Through www.homedepot.com, Home Depot Direct offers an assortment of over 30,000 items for sale. These items are selected based on their potential for on-line sales. Managing product selection and pricing nationally allows it to promote the same product and price to all visitors to its websites and allows Home Depot Direct to leverage certain on-line marketing channels that reach across many or all The Home Depot store pricing markets.

During fiscal 2005, Home Depot Direct continued to enhance the content of www.homedepot.com to describe each of the installation services The Home Depot offers and the capability to allow potential customers to conveniently sign up on-line for in-home consultations. We anticipate continuing to improve the quality and quantity of services-related content on-line.

Home Depot Direct manages other websites in support of the various The Home Depot brands and businesses. The Canadian website, www.homedepot.ca, provides an assortment of products available for sale online in Canada, a store locator, and information on The Home Depot and its Canadian services. The Canadian website is bilingual to service The Home Depot customers in Canada's two official languages, English and French. The Contractor Services Site, www.contractorservices.homedepot.com, allows contractors to browse and purchase store products that can be picked up in The Home Depot stores or delivered to their home. Customers may obtain store information and locations on EXPO Design Center stores at www.expo.com.

Home Depot Direct's 10 Crescent Lane site, www.10CrescentLane.com, and Paces Trading Company site, www.PacesTrading.com, offer their products for sale online using similar photography and content as found in their respective catalogs to provide a consistent brand experience.

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Your Other Warehouse

Your Other Warehouse, which is also a part of Home Depot Direct, is a distributor of special order faucet and plumbing fixtures, lighting, fan and hardware products for The Home Depot and EXPO Design Center stores and a variety of other third-party resellers. Your Other Warehouse carries over 60,000 products from over 130 suppliers, including Kohler®, American Standard® and other major manufacturers. Your Other Warehouse operates five distribution facilities and a call center and employs approximately 900 associates.