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Hurley Calister "Cal" Turner (May 28, 1915 – November 20, 2000) was an American businessman. He was the co-founder of Dollar General alongside his father.
Callum Robilliard Turner (born 15 February 1990) is a British actor. After beginning a career as a fashion model, he began working in film and television. Turner has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor and named as a Breakthrough Brit by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts .
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Cal Turner Jr. was born on January 25, 1940, to Laura and Cal Turner. He is the son of Cal Turner, the founder of Dollar General. He has three siblings, including a sister, Laura Dugas. He is the oldest son. He grew up in Scottsville, Kentucky. Turner graduated from Vanderbilt University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962. He serv...
Turner started his career at the family firm, Dollar General, in December 1965. He worked his way up and began by "sweeping the warehouse in the company." He became president in 1977 and chairman in 1988. He served as its chairman and chief executive officer until 2003.During his tenure, he forced both his father and his brother out of the business...
Turner serves on the board of trust of his alma mater, Vanderbilt University. He endowed the Cal Turner Program For Moral Leadership in the Professions at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in 1994. With his sister Laura Dugas, Turner donated a pipe organ to the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. Additional...
Turner had a wife, Margaret (who died in 2019), and has a son, Cal Turner, III. They resided in a home in Fieldstone Farms, a neighborhood of Franklin, Tennessee, near Nashville. Turner is a member of the United Methodist Church.He plays the piano and pipe organ.
Turner, Cal Jr.; Simbeck, Rob (2018). My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General Into a Billion-Dollar Company. New York City: Center Street. ISBN 9781478992981. OCLC 100...
Nov 20, 2000 · Cal Turner Sr., who began a retailing empire based on the philosophy that no item should cost more than a dollar, died at his home in Scottsville, Ky., on Tuesday. He was 85.
Aug 4, 2018 · Cal Sr.’s father, James Luther Turner, was the oldest of four children, a child who left school at age 11 to run his family’s farm in Macon County, Tennessee, following the death of his own...
Nov 15, 2000 · Cal Turner Sr, the founder of Dollar General Corp., died late Tuesday at the age of 85. Working alongside his father, J.L. Turner, Mr. Turner created what is regarded today as one of Middle...
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99+ Photos. Callum was born in London and grew up on a Chelsea estate - he is a huge Chelsea football fan - where, he claimed in a 2014 interview, "I learned more from films than I did through life itself."