Dollar General Honored by Coca-Cola Customer Veterans Day Award
November 08 2017 - 6:55AM
Business Wire
Major Discount Retailer Recognized as the First
Retail Recipient
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) plans to formally recognize
Dollar General (NYSE: DG) with its President’s Veterans Recognition
Award at a special event at its world headquarters in Atlanta on
Friday, November 10, 2017. As the 2017 recipient, Dollar General is
the first retailer ever to be bestowed with the honor, which
recognizes the company’s outstanding engagement and outreach with
the military community.
“Dollar General is humbled by this prestigious recognition of
our ongoing work with the military and veteran communities,” said
Larry Gatta, Dollar General’s senior vice president and general
merchandise manager. “As a company dedicated to our mission of
Serving Others, we continually strive to support and show
appreciation to the men and women who have served and continue to
serve our country. We appreciate Coca-Cola’s partnership in
recognizing our efforts as we continue to be grateful and thankful
for the sacrifices made by our military communities and their
families.”
Presented by Sandy Douglas, President of Coca-Cola North
America, the award recognizes a customer who shows exemplary
support for the U.S. Armed Forces, its veterans and families.
Dollar General’s engagement with the military community includes
exclusive discounts to active military, veterans and their
immediate family members, outreach with the military communities
through its military employee resource group, founding of the
Paychecks for Patriots program, which supports service members’
transition to civilian life through meaningful employment
opportunities, and more. The Company also collaborated with
Coca-Cola in 2017 to debut its exclusive Share a Coke® patriotic
can series honoring service members, veterans and their
families.
“On behalf of everyone at Coca-Cola, we are proud to recognize
our longstanding customer Dollar General for their commitment to
veterans, members of the U.S. military and their families across
the country,” said Douglas. “Dollar General exemplifies the gold
standard in honoring and celebrating our nation’s servicemen and
women, and we salute them as a Coca-Cola President’s Veterans
Recognition Award recipient.”
As part of Coca-Cola’s annual Veterans Day employee celebration,
which will be centered around the theme of Honoring Military Women
and Families this year, Dollar General also plans to present the
USO of Georgia with a $10,000 donation.
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story, please visit the DG Newsroom, contact the Media Relations
Department at 1-877-944-DGPR (3477) or via email at
dgpr@dg.com.
About Dollar General
Corporation
Dollar General Corporation has been delivering value to shoppers
for over 75 years. Dollar General helps shoppers Save time. Save
money. Every day!® by offering products that are frequently used
and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids,
cleaning supplies, basic apparel, housewares and seasonal items
at everyday low prices in convenient neighborhood
locations. Dollar General operated 14,000 stores in 44 states as
of August 19, 2017. In addition to high quality private
brands, Dollar General sells products from America’s
most-trusted brands such as Clorox, Energizer, Procter &
Gamble, Hanes, Coca-Cola, Mars, Unilever, Nestle, Kimberly-Clark,
Kellogg’s, General Mills, and PepsiCo.
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