---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000935703-22-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DLTR"
cik: "0000935703"
company_name: "DOLLAR TREE, INC."
filed_at: "2022-02-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T06:50:13.040736+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dollar Tree Executive Chairman Bob Sasser to retire before 2022 annual meeting

## Summary
- Bob Sasser, 70, intends to retire as Executive Chairman prior to the 2022 Annual Meeting; will receive Chairman Emeritus title.
- Under Sasser, Dollar Tree grew from <$1B to >$25B sales; market cap from $2.3B to $30.8B over 20+ years.
- CEO Michael Witynski continues in role; no immediate successor for Executive Chairman has been named.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000935703-22-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DLTR
- cik: 0000935703
- company_name: DOLLAR TREE, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-02-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935703/000093570322000004/0000935703-22-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935703/000093570322000004/dltr-20220218.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000935703-22-000004
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000935703-22-000004.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000935703-22-000004.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bob Sasser departed as Executive Chairman at DOLLAR TREE, INC..
  - Action: intends to retire
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: On February 18, 2022, Dollar Tree, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Bob Sasser intends to retire from his role as Executive Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors prior to the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935703/000093570322000004/0000935703-22-000004-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.