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Dollar General: Reenergizing a National Retailer
Headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, Dollar General is a national retailer that has been revived by private equity. The company’s growth and…
Private Equity Investment Grows Dollar General into one of the Nations Largest, Most Successful Retailers
Today the Private Equity at Work campaign released a new video case study today featuring national retailer Dollar General, now the nation’s largest small-box discount retailer by store count….
Private Equity Investment Grows Dollar General into one of the Nation’s Largest, Most Successful Retailers
Judge: “Dollar General is one of many examples of household names reenergized by private equity.”
Often left out of the conversation surrounding the presidential election, private equity is…
Private Equity Reenergizes a National Retailer
Headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, Dollar General is a national retailer that has been revived by private equity. The company’s growth and profitability had slowed and in 2007, the…
Legislative Priorities
New Academic Analysis Finds Double Taxation on Partnership Businesses Reverses Trend Toward Tax Neutrality
Postlewaite: “The logic for the [tax increase] proposal is undercut by the evolution of the tax law over the last 30 years, which has embraced single-level taxation as the standard for business tax…
Pensions
WSJ: PE’s Ongoing PR War Sees Lobby Group Push Public Pension Data
By Michael Wursthorn
As politicians and pundits continue to hammer the private equity industry during this election, the industry’s lobby group has culled public data from pension plans across…
The $214 Billion Map: PEGCC Report Breaks Down Pension Fund Investment by State, Ranks Top Funds by Returns and Allocation
Judge: “This data, coupled with the new interactive map, further demonstrates who benefits most from successful private equity investments – the teachers, policemen, firefighters and other…
Tax Policy
Tax Notes: “Raising Revenue Through Misguided Classification Reform”
Passthrough Proposal Would Reverse 30 Years of Tax Law
Tax law expert, Professor Philip Postlewaite of Northwestern University, argues that recent proposals to tax passthrough businesses as…
Capitol Hill Update
The presidential election continues to bring unprecedented attention to private equity. Never has it been more important for private equity to explain to policy makers in Washington what private…
Who Benefits From Private Equity?
It is the investors—the pensioners in a public or private pension fund, or the foundation that relies on high returns to continue operations. It is the companies that are made stronger, more…