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Dec 19, 2011

Leading North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers – Company Benchmarking Analysis Report

Synopsis
This report contains a competitive company benchmarking analysis based on key financial and operating parameters and ratios of a select peer group of companies, compared to one another and to overall global averages for their retail channel. The analysis highlights the companies that are performing the best among the peer group, and in which areas, and therefore clarifies leading performance standards and the strengths and weaknesses of companies covered.


Summary
Canadean’s ‘Leading North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers – Company Benchmarking Analysis Report’ compares the strength of leading home improvement and gardening supplies retailers in North America relative to one another and the international averages for retailers in the same channel.
The benchmark analysis is based on key parameters and ratios that explain the performance of a particular company against that of its immediate peers and its overall channel of operation. As such, it provides an easy-to-use analysis which highlights the companies that are setting the benchmark performance in their channel of operation.

Scope
The report provides a peer group benchmarking analysis of leading home improvement and gardening supplies retailers in North America. The peer group is selected from our Retailer Company Benchmark Database which covers the leading 1,000 global retailers. The peer groups covered includes leading public home improvement and gardening supplies retailers based in North America.
The retailers covered in the report are:
• Kirkland’s, Inc.
• Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
• RONA inc.
• The Home Depot, Inc.
• Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

Reasons To Buy
• Understand the relative competitive strengths and weaknesses of the players covered, both compared to each other, as well as for the average performance of retailers in this channel around the world.
• Detailed scorecards and summary “heat charts” provide clear, concise “at a glance” analysis of the relative performance of the companies covered across a range of metrics. While more detailed data provides the granular detail behind these concise analyses.
• Gain a detailed knowledge of the best in class performance levels amongst the retailers covered in order to benchmark both competitor performance as well as that of your own company.

Key Highlights
As might be expected, Home Depot was the strongest performer of the leading home improvement and gardening supplies retailers in North America.
Lowe’s was the top performer under the scale and growth pillar. It also performed well under operational efficiency pillar. However, its performance in financial performance was comparable to the channel average.
Rona was the weakest performer of the leading home improvement and gardening supplies retailers in North America. Its operational efficiency and financial performance was comparable to, or weaker than the channel average. However, it performed well under scale and growth pillar.
The North American home improvement and gardening supplies retail market is dominated by Home Depot and Lowe’s, both of which are based in the US and have strong presence in the region. Together, these two companies account for 48.1% of the North American market.

Table of Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 What is this Report About?
1.2 Peer Group
1.3 Retail Channel Definitions
1.4 Financial and Operational Metric Definitions
1.5 Summary Methodology
1.5.1 Overall Research Methodology
1.5.2 Scorecard and Heat Chart Methodology
2 Peer Group Summary Analysis
2.1 Leading North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers – Heat Chart
2.2 Leading North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers – Insights from Competitive Benchmarking Analysis
2.2.1 Scale and growth competitive benchmarks
2.2.2 Operational efficiency competitive benchmarks
2.2.3 Financial performance competitive benchmarks
2.3 The Home Depot, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.4 Lowe’s Companies, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.5 Williams-Sonoma, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.6 Kirkland’s, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.7 RONA inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
3 Leading North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers – Company Benchmarking
3.1 Scale and Growth Competitive Benchmarks
3.1.1 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by revenue, 2006–2010
3.1.2 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by revenue growth, 2007–2010
3.1.3 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by retail floor space, 2006–2010
3.1.4 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by retail floor space growth, 2007–2010
3.1.5 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by store count, 2006–2010
3.1.6 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by store count growth, 2007–2010
3.1.7 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by employee count, 2006–2010
3.1.8 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by employee count growth, 2007–2010
3.1.9 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by market capitalization, 2006–2010
3.2 Operational Efficiency Competitive Benchmarks
3.2.1 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by EBITDA margin, 2006–2010
3.2.2 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by net profit margin, 2006–2010
3.2.3 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by inventory turnover, 2006–2010
3.2.4 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by sales per square meter, 2006–2010
3.2.5 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by operating profit per square meter, 2006–2010
3.2.6 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by sales per employee, 2006–2010
3.2.7 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by operating profit per employee, 2006–2010
3.2.8 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by fixed asset turnover, 2006–2010
3.3 Financial Performance Competitive Benchmarks
3.3.1 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by ROCE, 2006–2010
3.3.2 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by return on assets, 2006–2010
3.3.3 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by earnings per share (basic), 2006–2010
3.3.4 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by P/E ratio, 2006–2010
3.3.5 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by quick ratio, 2006–2010
3.3.6 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by debt to equity, 2006–2010
3.3.7 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by debt ratio, 2006–2010
3.3.8 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by capital expenditure, 2006–2010
3.3.9 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by EV/sales, 2006–2010
3.3.10 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by EV/EBITDA, 2006–2010
3.3.11 Leading North American home improvement and gardening supplies retailers by interest coverage, 2006–2010
4 Appendix
4.1 About Canadean
4.2 Disclaimer

List of Tables
Table 1: List of Leading Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers in North America, 2010
Table 2: Retail Channel Definitions
Table 3: Financial and Operational Metric Definitions
Table 4: List of Company Benchmarking Metrics by Pillar
Table 5: Sample Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 6: The Home Depot, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 7: Lowe’s Companies, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 8: Williams-Sonoma, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 9: Kirkland’s, Inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 10: RONA inc. – Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 11: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Revenue (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Table 12: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Revenue Growth (%), 2007–2010
Table 13: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Retail Floor Space (Thousand Square Meters), 2006–2010
Table 14: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Retail Floor Space Growth (%), 2007–2010
Table 15: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Store Count, 2006–2010
Table 16: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Store Count Growth (%), 2007–2010
Table 17: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Employee Count, 2006–2010
Table 18: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Employee Count Growth (%), 2007–2010
Table 19: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Market Capitalization (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Table 20: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by EBITDA Margin (%), 2006–2010
Table 21: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Net Profit Margin (%), 2006–2010
Table 22: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Inventory Turnover, 2006–2010
Table 23: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Sales per Square Meter (US$), 2006–2010
Table 24: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Operating Profit per Square Meter (US$), 2006–2010
Table 25: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Sales per Employee (US$), 2006–2010
Table 26: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Operating Profit per Employee (US$), 2006–2010
Table 27: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Fixed Asset Turnover, 2006–2010
Table 28: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by ROCE (%), 2006–2010
Table 29: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Return on Assets (%), 2006–2010
Table 30: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Earnings per Share (Basic) (US$), 2006–2010
Table 31: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by P/E Ratio, 2006–2010
Table 32: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Quick Ratio, 2006–2010
Table 33: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Debt to Equity, 2006–2010
Table 34: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Debt Ratio, 2006–2010
Table 35: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Capital Expenditure (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Table 36: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by EV/Sales, 2006–2010
Table 37: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by EV/EBITDA, 2006–2010
Table 38: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Interest Coverage, 2006–2010
List of Figures
Figure 1: Sample Heat Chart
Figure 2: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers – Heat Chart
Figure 3: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Revenue (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Figure 4: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Revenue Growth (%), 2007–2010
Figure 5: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Retail Floor Space (Thousand Square Meters), 2006–2010
Figure 6: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Retail Floor Space Growth (%), 2007–2010
Figure 7: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Store Count, 2006–2010
Figure 8: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Store Count Growth (%), 2007–2010
Figure 9: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Employee Count, 2006–2010
Figure 10: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Employee Count Growth (%), 2007–2010
Figure 11: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Market Capitalization (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Figure 12: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by EBITDA Margin (%), 2006–2010
Figure 13: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Net Profit Margin (%), 2006–2010
Figure 14: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Inventory Turnover, 2006–2010
Figure 15: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Sales per Square Meter (US$), 2006–2010
Figure 16: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Operating Profit per Square Meter(US$), 2006–2010
Figure 17: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Sales per Employee (US$), 2006–2010
Figure 18: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Operating Profit per Employee (US$), 2006–2010
Figure 19: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Fixed Asset Turnover, 2006–2010
Figure 20: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by ROCE (%), 2006–2010
Figure 21: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Return on Assets (%), 2006–2010
Figure 22: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Earnings per share (basic) (US$), 2006–2010
Figure 23: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by P/E Ratio, 2006–2010
Figure 24: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Quick Ratio, 2006–2010
Figure 25: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Debt to Equity, 2006–2010
Figure 26: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Debt Ratio, 2006–2010
Figure 27: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Capital Expenditure (US$ Million), 2006–2010
Figure 28: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by EV/Sales, 2006–2010
Figure 29: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by EV/EBITDA, 2006–2010
Figure 30: Top Five North American Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers by Interest Coverage, 2006–2010