The company provides a broad range of products and value-added services to approximately 250,000 professional customers in maintenance, repair and operations, infrastructure and power and specialty construction sectors.

[citation needed] Home Depot, after changing its CEO from Bob Nardelli to Frank Blake, decided to sell HD Supply in order to raise capital to repurchase Home Depot stock and shore up the stock price.

The shares began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on June 27, 2013, under the ticker symbol HDS.

[6] In December 2014 SEC filings showed that The Carlyle Group and Clayton, Dubilier, & Rice had sold off their holdings in HD Supply.

[7] On 1 August 2017, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice acquired the Waterworks division of HD Supply and changed its name to Core & Main.