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ANNUAL MEETING
Dollar General Corporation’s annual meeting of
shareholders is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. Central
Time on Wednesday May 27, 2015, at:
Goodlettsville City Hall Auditorium
105 South Main Street, Goodlettsville, TN 37072
Shareholders of record as of March 19, 2015 are
entitled to vote at the meeting.
NYSE: DG
The common stock of Dollar General Corporation is
traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the
trading symbol “DG.” The number of shareholders of
record as of March 19, 2015 was 1,922.
STOCK PERFORMANCE GRAPH
The graph below shows a comparison of Dollar
General’s cumulative total shareholder return on
common stock with the cumulative total returns of
the S&P 500 index and the S&P Retailing index. The
graph tracks the performance of a $100 investment
in Dollar General common stock and in each index
(with the reinvestment of all dividends) from January
29, 2010 to January 30, 2015.
COMPARISON OF
CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN
The stock price performance included in this graph is not
necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.
S&P Retailing IndexS&P 500 Index
$150
$200
$100
$250
$300
1/28/111/29/10 2/3/12 2/1/13 1/31/14 1/30/15
Dollar General Corporation
1/28/11
$120.90
$130.27
$122.19
1/29/10
$127.34
$152.96
$178.54
2/3/12
$197.02
$148.71
$196.91
2/1/13
$239.76
$180.70
$248.81
$285.48
$206.41
$297.75
1/31/14 1/30/15
Dollar General
S&P 500 Index
S&P Retailing Index
$100
$100
$100
$201
2010
$13.0
2010
$14.8
2011
$16.0
2012
$17.5
2013
$18.9
2014
2.8%
2014
4.9%
2010
6.0%
2011
4.7%
2012
3.3%
2013
11,789
2014
9,372
2010
9,937
2011
10,506
2012
11,132
2013
$223
2014
$213
2011
$216
2012
$220
2013
NET SALES (IN BILLIONS)
SAME-STORE SALES GROWTH
ENDING STORE COUNT
SALES PER SQUARE FOOT
Fiscal 2011 includes 53 weeks, while all other years
presented contain 52 weeks. Sales in the 2011 53rd
week were $289 million.