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June 13, 2013
Family Dollar courts Father's Day shoppers

With Father’s Day just around the corner, Family Dollar is touting its small-store format, accessible staff and assorted product offerings to draw shoppers into its stores.

June 10, 2013
New VP of real estate at Family Dollar

Family Dollar has named Brad Rogers as the company's SVP of real estate. Rogers replaces Keith Gehl, who announced his retirement from the company at the end of June. Rogers will report to chairman and CEO Howard R. Levine.

June 10, 2013
New VP of real estate at Family Dollar

Family Dollar has named Brad Rogers as the company's SVP of real estate. Rogers replaces Keith Gehl, who announced his retirement from the company at the end of June. Rogers will report to chairman and CEO Howard R. Levine.

May 20, 2013
Family Dollar honors IT partner at annual summit

Family Dollar has named Trade Area Systems, a supplier of enterprise market knowledge systems for retail, its IT Strategic Partner of the Year. The award was presented during the company’s fifth annual IT Strategic Partner Summit.

April 29, 2013
Leadership changes at Family Dollar

Family Dollar has announced that EVP of supply chain Charles S. Gibson will leave the company to pursue other interests.

April 24, 2013
Family Dollar improves visibility with real estate solution

Family Dollar is utilizing TAS Unity, a browser-based enterprise market knowledge system designed to aid retail real estate management from Trade Area Systems.

April 18, 2013
Another signs of soft sales in Q1

Target may not cater to exactly the same shopper as Walmart, but there is enough overlap between the two companies to know that reports of weakness out of Minneapolis are never a good sign in Bentonville.

April 10, 2013
Family Dollar posts Q2 growth, but challenges remain

Family Dollar Stores reported a net sales increase of 17.7% to $2.89 billion for its second quarter. Net income per diluted share for the quarter increased 5.2% to $1.21.

March 27, 2013
Family Dollar signs new marketing software contract with Retail Sense

Family Dollar Stores has signed a multi-year contract with Retail Sense, a marketing software company that accelerates retail and agile marketing processes.

March 25, 2013
Family Dollar names merchandise head

Family Dollar Stores has named Scott Zucker to the newly created position of SVP merchandise operations.

February 5, 2013
Family Dollar optimizes merchandise solutions with Revionics

Revionics a provider of end-to-end merchandise optimization solutions has renewed its software contract with Family Dollar.

January 18, 2013
Family Dollar rewards shareholders following stock slide

Family Dollar’s annual dividend now exceeds a dollar following a 24% increase on Friday.

January 4, 2013
Equality advances evident at retail and CPG

Nineteen of the nation’s leading retail and CPG companies received perfect scores on the 2013 Corporate Equality Index compiled by the Human Rights Campaign.

January 3, 2013
Holidays not so happy at Family Dollar

Despite solid sales trends at Family Dollar during the company’s first quarter ended November 24, margins contracted and profits were less than expected.

December 3, 2012
Family Dollar appoints new SVP, food

Less than six months after joining Family Dollar, Tammy L. DeBoer has been named SVP of food.

November 15, 2012
Family Dollar emphasizes budget priced brands

Family Dollar is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for families this holiday season.

October 5, 2012
Healthways to provide health, wellness services to Family Dollar team members

Family Dollar has inked a partnership with a national leader in health-and-wellness solutions to further drive the retailer's commitment to proactively engage in activities that encourage healthy living.

October 3, 2012
More, more, more at Family Dollar

Family Dollar said it would open 500 new stores next year following the release of record sales and profits on Wednesday morning.

September 28, 2012
Spoiler alert: Walmart’s prices lowest to varying degrees

Pricing studies conducted this week by Wall Street analysts yielded familiar results.

August 24, 2012
Former Target exec named merchandising SVP at Family Dollar

MATTHEWS, N.C. — Family Dollar Stores has named Holly Shaskey-Platek to the position of SVP merchandising. She will lead the home, apparel and seasonal divisions and report to Paul White, EVP, chief merchandising officer.

July 16, 2012
Retailing Today Insights: Family Dollar

Family Dollar is growing like a weed. To see why, click here.

June 29, 2012
And the dollar stores keep coming

Family Dollar’s third quarter results were not as good as expected, but only marginally so, and the company’s growth strategy and potential to steal traffic from Walmart remain intact.

June 28, 2012
Family Dollar keeps delivering value for shareholders and consumers

Dollar stores continue to thrive in this consumer-conscious economy, and Family Dollar is no exception.

June 28, 2012
Family Dollar keeps delivering value for shareholders and consumers

Dollar stores continue to thrive in this consumer-conscious economy, and Family Dollar is no exception.

June 15, 2012
Another dollar store competitive threat

Dollar General and Family Dollar aren’t the only discount retailers Walmart has to worry about. North of the border the Dollarama chain is growing nearly as fast.

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