Teaching Purpose: To illustrate the strategic issues facing a business-to-business online market maker. HBS Number: 9-800-327 Type: Case (Field) Publication Date: 2/28/2000 Geographic Setting: New York, NY Industry Setting: construction Company Size: start-up Number of Employees: 25 Event Year Start: 1999 Event Year End: 1999 Subjects: Building materials industry; Business policy; Business to business; Construction; Electronic commerce; Entrepreneurship; Internet; Vertical integration Source: Harvard Kmart, Inc...
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and Builders Square Add View 25 pp. Case Meulbroek, Lisa; Barnett, Jonathan In 1997, Kmart received an offer from retail buyout specialists Leonard Green & Partners for the purchase of its ailing 162-store home improvement chain, Builders Square. Green’s offer included a $10 million cash payment, a warrant to HBS Number: 9-200-044 Type: Case (Library) Publication Date: 2/3/2000 Revision Date: 7/12/2000 Industry Setting: building supplies retailing Gross Revenues: $2...
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