NYSE, DG - Dollar General Corp
The Company is a leading discount retailer of quality general merchandise at
everyday low prices. Through conveniently located stores, the Company offers a
focused assortment of basic consumable merchandise including health and beauty
aids, packaged food and refrigerated products, home cleaning supplies,
housewares, stationery, seasonal goods, basic clothing and domestics. Dollar
General stores serve primarily low-, middle- and fixed-income families.
The Company was founded in 1939 as J.L. Turner and Son, Wholesale. The Company
opened its first dollar store in 1955, when the Company was first incorporated
as a Kentucky corporation under the name J.L. Turner & Son, Inc. The Company
changed its name to Dollar General Corporation in 1968 and reincorporated as a
Tennessee corporation in 1998. As of March 3, 2006, the Company operated 8,019
stores in 32 states, primarily in the southern, southwestern, midwestern and
eastern United States. ...
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