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Ranked No. 122, is Arthur Blank, age 82, who co-founded Home Depot.Blank is worth $8.9 billion. Blank is well-known not just for his retail success, but also as the chairman of the Atlanta Falcons ...
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 ...
Here are the richest people in Georgia. Chelsea Madden. August 10, 2022 at 3:04 AM. ... Arthur Blank, Home Depot/Atlanta Falcons: $7.1 billion. John Brown, medical equipment: $5.4 billion.
Griffin was the richest person in Illinois before following his hedge fund, Citadel, to Miami. ... Home Depot cofounds Bernard Marcus ($8.1 billion) and Arthur Blank ($7.6 billion); brothers Bubba ...
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 ...
In an effort to replace the aging Georgia Dome and potentially host a future Super Bowl, team owner Arthur Blank proposed a deal with the city of Atlanta to build a new state-of-the-art stadium not far from where the Georgia Dome is located. Blank will contribute $800 million and the city of Atlanta will contribute an additional $200 million ...
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.