The Home Depot To Present at Merrill Lynch 29th Annual Retailing Leaders Conference

ATLANTA, March 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Home Depot(R), the world's largest home improvement retailer, announced today that Tom Taylor, executive vice president, Merchandising and Marketing, will present at the Merrill Lynch 29th Annual Retailing Leaders Conference in New York, NY. The presentation will begin at 12:15 p.m. ET on March 21, 2006.

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The presentation will be webcast live over the Internet at homedepot.com. On the home page, select "Investor Relations" and a link will be displayed under "Executive Presentations." The webcast will be archived and available at the same location.

Founded in 1978, The Home Depot(R) is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer and the second largest retailer in the United States, with fiscal 2005 sales of $81.5 billion. The Company employs approximately 345,000 associates and has 2,054 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. Through its Home Depot Supply division, the Company operates one of the nation's largest diversified wholesale distributors, with operations in 41 states and Canada. The Home Depot has been recognized by FORTUNE magazine as the No. 1 Most Admired Specialty Retailer and the No. 13 Most Admired Corporation in America for 2006. Its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index. HDE