<P> Lowe's former corporate headquarters is located in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the county in which it was founded . Lowe's still maintains a major corporate presence in the county, where it employs over 2,400 people . The Central Production Office is located in the former Wilkes Mall, which Lowe's purchased in 1997 . Since then, the entire 440,000 square - foot campus has been remodeled and includes a full service food court, a doctors office, and gym within the gated campus . </P> <Dl> <Dt> Canada </Dt> </Dl> <P> The headquarters of subsidiary Lowe's Companies Canada, ULC is located in Boucherville, Quebec, due to the merger with Rona . Prior to 2016, Lowe's Canada was headquartered in Toronto, Ontario . </P> <P> Lowe's won eight consecutive Energy Star awards from 2003 to 2010, including four Energy Star Partner of the Year awards for educating consumers about the benefits of energy efficiency . On March 1, 2010, Lowe's also became the first winner of the Energy Star Sustained Excellence Award in Retail, to recognize its contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy - efficient products and educating consumers and employees on the value of the Energy Star program . In 2000, Lowe's released a policy promising that all wood products sold would not be sourced from rainforests . However, according to a 2006 report released by the Environmental Investigation Agency, wood used in flooring that Lowe's was selling had been coming from the forests of Indonesia's remote Papua Province, where some logging was estimated to be illegal . </P>

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