Overview
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Homebase is the easiest way to track hours, schedule your team, and hire—for free! We build modern software for local businesses and their employees. Our goal is to make hourly work easy. Everyone has a favorite spot - that cafe that serves the perfect chicken sandwich on sourdough, a tavern with forty brews on tap, the Italian place you took your significant other on your first date, the bookstore with the greatest collection of scifi. All of these local favorites have cultivated something special and unique - as special and unique as the people that dedicate their time to making that business great. We believe in these entrepreneurs and we believe in the people who work in these businesses. We are on a mission to eliminate this paper so that owners, managers, and employees can focus on the things they love. Homebase is the easiest way to track hours and schedule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomeBase Robert J. McNulty and George Handgis founded the chain as a warehouse club called the HomeClub, opening the first two stores in Norwalk and Fountain Valley, California in 1983. It went public in 1985, trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HBI. In 1985 it was acquired by Zayre, a Framingham, Massachusetts-based discount department store chain. After Zayre was acquired by Ames, HomeClub was spun off under a new company called Waban Inc., which also owned BJ's Wholesale Club. In 1991 it discontinued its membership program and adopted the HomeBase name shortly thereafter. The chain expanded to 89 stores by the mid-1990s, becoming the sixth largest home improvement retailer in the United States. Although it outperformed competitors like Orchard Supply Hardware and Builders Square, it could not match the growth or pricing power of The Home Depot or Lowe's. On December 5, 2000, after several dramatically unprofitable years, it announced that 67 stores would be converted to a home decorating superstore chain, House2Home, and the remainder closed. House2Home would fare no better and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 7, 2001 and was subsequently liquidated in early 2002.
