Dollar General Nominates J. Neal Purcell, Former KPMG, LLP Vice
Chairman, to Board of Directors
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn., April 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dollar General
Corporation announced today that its Board of Directors hasnominated J. Neal
Purcell, retired partner of KPMG, LLP, for election to the Board at the
Company's May 25th Annual Shareholders' meeting in Tennessee.
Mr. Purcell served on KPMG's Board of Directors and its Management Committee. From October 1998 until his retirement in January 2002, he served as vice
chairman in charge of the firm's national audit practice - operations. Prior to
that, he served as area managing partner for the Southeast region. He is
currently on the board and chairman of the audit committee for Southern Company
in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also on the boards of Synovus Financial Corporation
in Columbus, Georgia and Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California.
A native of Ballground, Georgia, Mr. Purcell graduated from Emory University in
Atlanta, Georgia, and is a charter member of the Goizueta Business School
Advisory Board there. He is on the Emory Board of Trustees, serving on its
finance and investment committees and chairing the committee on executive
compensation.
"We aredelighted that Neal has agreed to serve on the Dollar General Board of
Directors," said Dennis C. Bottorff, Chairman of the Board's Nominating and
Governance Committee, which oversaw the search. "We conducted a thorough and
lengthy search, and Neal emerged as the top candidate because of his financial
and business acumen, his commitment to integrity and his forthright and sensible
manner. We look forward to working with him in the coming years and are
confident that the shareholders will agree with our selection." In addition to his extensive business and board efforts, Mr. Purcell has been
very involved in charitable and community efforts in Atlanta. He chaired the
1998 United Way Campaign of Metropolitan Atlanta. He has also chaired the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the Metropolitan Atlanta Salvation Army Board of
Advisors and is the President-Elect of the Atlanta Rotary Club. He currently
lives in Duluth, Georgia, with his wife Martha. They have two daughters and
seven grandchildren.
If Dollar General shareholders elect Mr. Purcell to the Board at the May 25th
meeting, he will begin serving on the board immediately. On May 25th, two of the
Company's current Board members, John B. Holland and William S. Wire, II, will
retire from theboard because of mandatory retirement rules. DATASOURCE: Dollar General Corporation CONTACT: Emma Jo Kauffman of Dollar General Corporation, +1-615-855-5525 Web site: http://www.dollargeneral.com/
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