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This Lowe´s Companies Inc Company Profile is the essential source for top-level company data and information. The report examines the company’s key business structure and operations, history and products, and provides summary analysis of its key revenue lines and strategy.

Lowe´s Companies (Lowe´s) is a home improvement retailer, offering products and services for home decorating, maintenance, repair and remodeling of commercial buildings. The company is headquartered at Mooresville, North Carolina and employs approximately 160,000 people on a full-time basis. The company recorded sales of $48,283 million during the financial year (FY) ended February 2008, an increase of 2.9% over 2007. Lowe’s attributes the increase in sales primarily to its store expansion program. The operating profit of the company was $4,705

 

 

million during FY2008, a decrease of 8.7% over 2007.The net profit was $2,809 million in FY2008, a decrease of 9.5% over 2007. The decline in profitability may be primarily attributable to increase in selling, general, and administrative (S,G & A) and depreciation costs as well as interest expenses.

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