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Arthur Morris Blank (born September 27, 1942) is an American businessman.He is best known for being a co-founder of the home improvement retailer The Home Depot. [2]Blank owns two professional sports teams based in Atlanta, Georgia – the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL) and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer (MLS), the latter of which won the 2018 MLS Cup [3 ...
Fortune Also Favors the Rich. ... Home Depot cofounds Bernard Marcus ($8.1 billion) and Arthur Blank ($7.6 ... The former interior designer and third wife of Tom Benson inherited control of the ...
There's rich and then there's making the Forbes-richest-people list rich. ... Ranked No. 122, is Arthur Blank, age 82, who co-founded Home Depot. Blank is worth $8.9 billion.
Home Depot cofounder and billionaire Arthur Blank joins business leaders supporting Harris. ... He and his wife have given $2.7 million to the former president's 2024 campaign, after giving $10 ...
She has three children with Arthur Blank (born 1942): Kenny Blank, Dena Blank Kimball, and Danielle Blank Thomsen; [2] they divorced in 1993. [1] Her son, Kenny Blank and his wife Nancy; [7] [8] and her daughter Dena and her husband Josh Kimball, serve as directors of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
In 1974, Langone formed the venture capital firm Invemed. Langone organized financing for Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank to found Home Depot. Now an international chain with over 450,000 employees, it is Langone's most notable business venture. [5] Langone was a member of the board of directors of General Electric from 1999 to 2005.
Marcus, who had a net worth of about $7.4 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, gained his fortune from establishing The Home Depot with Arthur Blank in 1978.
In April 1978, he and future Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank were fired during a corporate power struggle at Handy Dan. [11] [12] In 1978, they co-founded the home-improvement retailer Home Depot, with the help of merchandising expert Pat Farrah and New York investment banker Ken Langone who assembled a group of investors. The first two ...