28 MAR 2025 / FINANCE

Why Dollar Tree Plans to Sell Family Dollar for $1 Billion

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Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar to Brigade Capital Management and Macellum Capital Management for $1 billion, a significant loss on its $9 billion purchase in 2015. The sale follows years of underperformance, shrinking margins and impairment charges for Family Dollar, and it will allow Dollar Tree to refocus on its profitable operations.

Back in 2015, Dollar Tree went all-in, coughing up a whopping $9 billion to buy Family Dollar in a fierce bidding war with Dollar General. Fast forward to 2025, and it’s hitting the eject button, offloading the chain to private equity firms Brig...

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