Dollar Tree, Inc.

Is Dollar Tree publicly traded?
Yes, on NASDAQ under ticker DLTR, with no controlling shareholder.

What happened to Family Dollar?
Dollar Tree sold it to private equity-backed 1959 Holdings, LLC on July 5, 2025, generating about $793 million in cash. They are now separate competitors.

How many stores does Dollar Tree operate?
9,282 at the end of fiscal 2025 in January 2026: 9,005 in the US and 277 in Canada.

What was Dollar Tree's fiscal 2025 revenue?
$19.4 billion in net sales from continuing operations, up 10.4% year over year.

Does Dollar Tree still charge $1?
No. The base price moved to $1.25 in 2021, and a multi-price Plus assortment sells items at $3, $5, and $7, though most merchandise remains near $1.25.

Who is the CEO?
Michael Creedon leads Dollar Tree, Inc. from Chesapeake, Virginia.

The company grew from a family Ben Franklin variety store business in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1986, Doug Perry, Macon Brock, and Ray Compton opened Only $1.00 stores built entirely around the single $1 price point.

Renamed Dollar Tree Stores in 1993, the company went public on NASDAQ in 1995 and scaled into a national chain of small-format stores in suburban and rural markets.

The defining deal came in 2015, when Dollar Tree won a bidding war with Dollar General to acquire Family Dollar for about $8.5 billion. The combined company reached more than 15,000 stores but spent a decade struggling to fix Family Dollar's operational problems, under sustained pressure from activist investors.

In March 2025, the company agreed to sell Family Dollar to 1959 Holdings, LLC, a Brigade Capital and Macellum-backed entity, closing July 5, 2025, and generating about $793 million in cash. The divestiture returned Dollar Tree to a single-banner model.

Operational evolution continued in parallel: the company ended its strict $1 price with a $1.25 base in 2021 and layered in a multi-price assortment, moves that powered fiscal 2025's 10.4% sales growth to $19.4 billion and the strongest comps in years.

Dollar Tree publishes ESG reporting covering emissions measurement, sustainable packaging commitments, and responsible sourcing standards for its import-heavy assortment. It participates in CDP climate reporting and has set emissions reduction targets for operations.

Its supplier standards govern labor practices in global sourcing. As a discount importer it faces the same supply chain scrutiny applied to the wider value retail sector.

Dollar Tree has faced OSHA citations common to the dollar store sector, primarily for blocked exits and unsafe storeroom conditions, part of an industry-wide enforcement pattern. A 2019 FDA warning letter cited receipt of adulterated over-the-counter drugs from foreign suppliers, remediated through supplier changes.

The divested Family Dollar business carried more severe liabilities, including a 2024 guilty plea and record fines over a rodent-infested warehouse; those obligations transferred with the July 2025 sale.