Lowe's Home Improvement

Lowe’s India, the global capability center for Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW), opened its second office in Bengaluru in April. Combined with Lowe’s existing office in Manyata Embassy Business Park, the new facility on Lavelle Road in Bengaluru’s central business district will provide approximately 14,000 square feet of additional space to support Lowe’s India’s growing workforce and continued hybrid workforce strategy. “Since the pandemic, we have seen increased demand from our customers across all selling channels, and we continue to invest in our omni-channel capabilities as we accelerate our online business and drive momentum with our Total Home Strategy,” said Seemantini Godbole, Lowe’s executive vice president and chief information officer. "The new office in the heart of the city is a testament to our phenomenal growth and will offer enhanced flexibility to our associates in the new hybrid work world.” said Ankur Mittal, Lowe’s India’s managing director and senior vice president of technology.

One of Lowe’s CSR focus areas in India is enabling children get quality education to optimize their full potential. We have various projects in the education space such as renovating school buildings, providing free meals to students (during the pandemic), sponsoring student education, providing laptops to enable digital & online education, along with collaborating with charity partners to identify future areas for investments to strengthen STEM education in the State of Karnataka. Lowe’s recently engaged with Christel House to support a total of 70 students’ (from 8th & 9th grade) education for the year 2020-2021 amounting ~$64K. The students sponsored by Lowe's attended their online classes till December 2020 and switched to in-person/in-campus classes from January 2021. Lowe’s CSR projects also provide programs in IT/ITES, Warehouse Management, Retail management and Computer Education which has empowered more than 1000 candidates by getting them jobs in 2021-2022.