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Lowe's

COMPANY

Home improvement retailer, founded 1946 as North Wilkesboro Hardware Company, by H. Carl Buchan and James Lowe, in North Wilkesboro, NC.

Official Website:
http://www.lowes.com/

Industry:
Retail

Ticker:
NYSE:LOW

Corporate headquarters:
Mooresville, NC

Sales:
$43.2B (2006)

Employees:
150,000

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Robert A. Niblock
Business
c. 1963   CEO of Lowe's
Dale C. Pond
Business
c. 1947   Former EVP Marketing at Lowe's
Robert L. Tillman
Business
c. 1944   CEO of Lowes, 1996-2005

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ralph Alvarez
Business
c. 1955   President and COO of McDonald's
David W. Bernauer
Business
1944   CEO of Walgreens, 2002-06
Leonard L. Berry
Business
c. 1942   Professor of Marketing, Texas A&M
Peter C. Browning
Business
2-Sep-1941   CEO of Sonoco Products, 1998-2000
Dawn E. Hudson
Business
c. 1958   CEO of Pepsi-Cola North America
Robert A. Ingram
Business
6-Dec-1942   Glaxo SmithKline executive
Robert L. Johnson
Business
8-Apr-1946   CEO of BET
Marshall O. Larsen
Business
c. 1948   CEO of Goodrich
Richard K. Lochridge
Business
c. 1943   Lochridge & Company, Inc.
Robert A. Niblock
Business
c. 1963   CEO of Lowe's
Stephen F. Page
Business
c. 1940   CFO of United Technologies, 2002-04
O. Temple Sloan, Jr.
Business
c. 1939   Founder of General Parts

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Paul Fulton
Business
c. 1934   President of Sara Lee, 1988-93
Kenneth D. Lewis
Business
9-Apr-1947   CEO of Bank of America, 2001-09
Jack C. Shewmaker
Business
14-Mar-1938 17-Nov-2010 President and COO of Wal-Mart, 1978-84
Robert L. Tillman
Business
c. 1944   CEO of Lowes, 1996-2005

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John Diebold
Author
8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation
Frank Luntz
Pundit
23-Feb-1962   Republican pollster, strategist

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Magic Johnson
Basketball
14-Aug-1959   Lakers star, AIDS spokesman


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