Home Depot Mexico reaches 143 stores, eyes expansion to 170
Home Depot Mexico says it can reach 170 stores after one recent count put it at 143 locations and company materials listed 142 current stores.
By one recent count, Home Depot Mexico has reached 143 stores, and company materials now list 142 current locations as the chain pushes toward a 170-store footprint across the country. The path to that goal runs through a format Mexican customers have kept adopting for do-it-yourself projects, remodeling and more frequent home improvement spending.
José Antonio Rodríguez Garza, known inside the business as Pepe Rodríguez, has spent years framing Mexico as a long-term growth market rather than a mature store base. The company entered the country in 2001 by acquiring Total Home, a four-store chain, then opened in Nuevo León and expanded to 50 stores across 24 states by 2005. At its 20th anniversary, Home Depot said it had 128 stores in all 32 Mexican states. The latest store count shows how much more room management still sees in the market.
That growth case is tied to localization as much as real estate. Home Depot Mexico says 80% of the products it sells come from Mexican suppliers, and the company works with more than 1,000 suppliers, mostly local. For store leaders, that means the assortment is built closer to the customer and the pro jobsite, with a supply chain that has to support both everyday DIY traffic and larger remodeling and contractor orders.
The capital plan behind that push has gotten larger. In February 2025, Home Depot announced a US$1.3 billion investment plan for Mexico covering 2025 through 2028, with a target to grow from 140 to 165 stores, add 2,500 direct jobs and 10,000 indirect jobs, and strengthen support for local suppliers, professional customers, sustainability and community impact. In March 2026, the company said it would invest 4,788 million pesos in 2026, its highest annual plan in a decade and 25% above the prior year.
The workforce numbers show how much of that scale has to happen inside the stores. Company materials say Home Depot Mexico employed about 18,200 associates in 2024, awarded about 170 scholarships to associates’ children, gave Orange Fund grants to about 1,200 associates totaling 17 million pesos and completed about 876,600 hours of training. That kind of investment matters in a business where associates need enough product knowledge to help weekend DIY customers and enough trade fluency to keep pro customers moving.
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