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Cal Turner. 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.
Hurley Calister "Cal" Turner Jr. (born January 25, 1940) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Dollar General, a chain of low-cost variety stores founded by his father, Cal Turner Sr.
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 19, 2018 · In this excerpt from his memoir, My Father’s Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company, Cal Turner Jr., a 1962 Vanderbilt graduate who was Dollar ...
Jun 29, 2020 · In 1939, James Luther Turner’s only child, Hurley Calister Turner, known as Cal Sr., bought a building in Scottsville to serve as the warehouse for a new wholesale business, J. L. Turner and...
Mar 19, 2019 · Learning the Value of a Dollar. Mar 19, 2019. The longtime CEO of Dollar General and son of the company’s founder tells how a simple pricing idea launched a retail giant. By Cal Turner Jr., BA'62. Cal Turner, Sr., left, and Cal Turner, Jr. prepare to board the Dollar General company helicopter.
