1079 Sabattus Rd
Lewiston, ME 04240

Dollar General is a U.S. chain of variety stores headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. As of March 23, 2016, it operated 12,438 stores located in 43 states. Dollar General was founded in 1939 by Cal Turner in Scottsville, Kentucky as J.L. Turner & Son, Inc. In 1968 the business changed its name to Dollar General Corporation. In 2007 the company was acquired by the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), which took the company public in 2009. Dollar General offers both name-brand and generic merchandise including offbrand goods and closeouts of name-brand items in the same store, often on the same shelf. Although it has the word dollar in the name, Dollar General is not a dollar store. Many of its offerings are priced at more than one dollar. However, goods are usually sold at set price points of penny items and up to the range of 50 to 60 dollars. On January 29, 2016, the company reported total revenues of $20.37 billion, a net income of $1.17 billion and a net worth in excess of $5.38 billion. Lewiston is the most central city in Androscoggin County and the second-largest city in Maine. The city has numerous festivals that draw crowds from all around Maine, including the Patrick Dempsey Challenge, Liberty Festival, Festival FrancoFun, The Great Falls Balloon Festival and the Emerge Film Festival. It is also home to the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, the University of Southern Maine' s Lewiston-Auburn College, Bates College and two significant regional general hospitals: Central Maine Medical Center, a 250-bed affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine, and Saint Mary' s Regional Medical Center, a 233-bed acute care facility. A few of the large employers in Lewiston include: Central Maine Medical Center, TD Bank and a Walmart Distribution Center that services all New England Walmart locations. Between January 2000 and December 2009, more than $432 million in new economic development projects occurred, encompassing a wide variety of industries including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, warehousing and distribution and printing and graphics.