Primary Job Title Board of Director Primary Organization Pulte Group
Location Goodlettsville, Tennessee, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
Richard W. Dreiling joined Dollar General (NYSE: DG), the leading small-box retailer with 100,000 employees and 11,000 store locations, in January 2008 as CEO, and was named chairman of the board in December 2008. He spearheaded the company's re-emergence as a public company through a successful Initial Public Offering in November 2009 and
eight secondary offerings.
Prior to coming to Dollar General, Dreiling had been the chairman and CEO of Duane Reade Holdings, Inc. Before that, Dreiling served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Longs Drug Stores Corporation, a chain of retail drug stores on the West Coast and Hawaii, starting there in 2003. Before that, he was executive vice president of marketing, manufacturing and distribution of Safeway, Inc., a food and drug retailer. Earlier still, he served as president of Vons, a Southern California food and drug division of Safeway, Inc.
