{"id":3961,"date":"2014-07-07T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T10:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2014-07-07T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T10:23:48","slug":"company-snapshot-dollar-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/07\/company-snapshot-dollar-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: Dollar General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dollar General Corp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>100 Mission Ridge<br \/>\nGoodlettsville, TN 37072<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telephone:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>(615)-855-4000<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Founded:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>1939<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>11,338<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>$17,504,167,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executive:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Richard W. Dreiling- CEO, Chairman of the Board<\/p>\n<p>Dollar General\u2019s penchant for constantly updating its merchandising mix while investing generously, though prudently, in improving customer attraction for its stores, is much of the reason behind the success of its aggressively expanded store arsenal.\u00a0 In late 2012, the retailer opened its 10,000<sup>th<\/sup> store.\u00a0 Coincidentally, this landmark opening was in the then just-entered territory of California, indicating lots of room for future growth.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, as can be seen above, Dollar General operates well over 11,300 locations, as it continues its pace of rapid expansion.\u00a0 The company is meeting its projections to open 700 new locations during this year.<\/p>\n<p>Included in this number are the company\u2019s larger prototypes, Dollar General Market and Dollar General Plus.\u00a0 These come in at around twice the size of the company\u2019s traditional stores and are designed to accommodate its greatly expanding mix of groceries.\u00a0 Increased attention to groceries, especially perishables and organics are responsible for more frequent visits by shoppers, thus better financials.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Board, CEO Richard W. Dreiling, just announced his plan to retire by May\u00a030, 2015 or upon the appointment of a successor.\u00a0 He began his service as Chairman in December 2008 and as CEO during the next month.\u00a0 This time period coincides with the official start of the recession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dollar General Corp. Address: 100 Mission Ridge Goodlettsville, TN 37072 Telephone: (615)-855-4000 Year Founded: 1939 Total Stores: 11,338 Total Annual Sales: $17,504,167,000 Senior Executive: Richard W. Dreiling- CEO, Chairman of the Board Dollar General\u2019s penchant for constantly updating its merchandising mix while investing generously, though prudently, in improving customer attraction for its stores, is much&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/07\/company-snapshot-dollar-general\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Company Snapshot: Dollar General<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discount-specialty","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}