He was 95. Marcus, whom Forbes has previously listed as the richest man in Georgia, became wealthy after he and Arthur Blank ...

The billionaire, a major donor to Republican politicians, accumulated his fortune by starting The Home Depot with Arthur ...

Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus (left) and co-founder Arthur Blank in 1997. They weren’t the first to build a “big box” store. They weren’t even the first to have a home impr ...

Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is one of the best-performing stocks in history, but the home improvement retailer has struggled recently. The company has faced challenges in the housing market like the rest of ...

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

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

At age 49, Marcus gained his fortune from establishing The Home Depot with Arthur Blank, the Atlanta Falcons owner, in 1978.

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