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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

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

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Magic Johnson	Basketball	14-Aug-1959		Lakers star, AIDS spokesman

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