Family Dollar

Introduction

Family Dollar introduced a new research and development effort named 'Concept Renewal' to create various new initiatives for growth in the company's profits. This concept would help the company in introducing new products and ideas in its stores. This could also help the company change its structure according to changing market demand and trends.

Scope

• Contains corporate strategy, value chain presence and SWOT Analysis
• Provides detailed business description, segment analysis, 5-year financial trends, key products and key competitors
• Includes information on suppliers/ partners, shareholding structure and key employees with biographies

Highlights

Family Dollar operates a chain of self-service general merchandise retail stores. The company operated 6,438 stores in 44 US states and the District of Columbia as of October 2007.

Family Dollar sells nationally advertised brands, company owned branded merchandise and other private labels or unlabelled products. The company categorizes its merchandise as: consumables, home products, apparel and accessories, and seasonal and electronics.

The company procures merchandise from about 1,400 suppliers in the US. The company purchases 60% of its merchandise directly from the US manufacturers. To address the needs of the low income group population, Family Dollar opened new stores to provide more value and convenience to this growing customer base.

Reasons to Purchase

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• Understand company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats along with business strategy and value chain
• Gain access to company's adjusted five year financial data along with key ratios and market capitalization