Dollar General Corporation Celebrates IPO and First Day of NYSE Trading
13 Novembre 2009 - 5:04PM
Business Wire
NYSE Euronext announced today that Dollar General Corporation
(“Dollar General”), a leading discount retailer based in
Goodlettsville, Tenn., has listed on the New York Stock Exchange
and begun trading under the ticker symbol “DG.” The IPO raised $716
million in gross primary and secondary proceeds.
"Dollar General is a leader in value shopping and one of the
largest private equity-backed IPOs of the year," said Scott R
Cutler, Head of Listings, Americas, NYSE Euronext. “We welcome
Dollar General in joining the NYSE's network of leading discount
retailers, and look forward to a strong and lasting
partnership."
To celebrate the company’s IPO, Rick Dreiling, Chairman and CEO
of Dollar General, will ring today’s Closing Bell.
“This is an important milestone in our company’s 70-year history
and could not have been achieved without the dedication and hard
work of all of Dollar General’s 77,000 employees throughout the
U.S.,” said Mr. Dreiling. “We are excited about the future of
Dollar General as a publicly traded company, and we’re proud of the
work our team has accomplished in taking Dollar General to the next
level.”
About Dollar General
Corporation (NYSE: DG)
Dollar General is the largest discount retailer in the United
States by number of stores with more than 8,700 neighborhood
stores, located in 35 states. Dollar General helps shoppers Save
time. Save money. Every day!(R) by offering quality private and
national branded items that are frequently used and replenished,
such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies,
basic apparel, house wares and seasonal items at everyday low
prices in convenient neighborhood stores. Dollar General is among
the largest retailers of top-quality products made by America's
most trusted manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble,
Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, Kellogg's, General Mills, Nabisco, Fruit
of the Loom, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola. The Company store support
center is located in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial
markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The
company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities,
futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With
more than 8,000 listed issues, NYSE Euronext's equities markets --
the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext, NYSE Arca and NYSE Amex as
well as NYSE Arca-- represent nearly 40 percent of the world's
equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group.
NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, the leading European
derivatives business and the world's second-largest derivatives
business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive
commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and
services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P
500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100
index and Fortune 500. For more information, please visit:
www.nyx.com
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