---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-108865"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DG"
cik: "0000029534"
company_name: "DOLLAR GENERAL CORP"
filed_at: "2023-10-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T01:19:13.149461+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dollar General appoints Todd Vasos as CEO, replaces Jeff Owen; updates FY2023 guidance

## Summary
- Todd Vasos appointed CEO effective Oct 12, 2023, succeeding Jeffery Owen who resigned.
- Vasos previously served as CEO from 2015 to Nov 2022 and retired Apr 2023.
- Vasos receives $1.4M base salary, 150% target bonus, and one-time option on 250,000 shares vesting Oct 2027.
- Board reduced from ten to nine directors following Owen's resignation.
- Company issued updated financial guidance for FY2023; no specific figures in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-108865
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DG
- cik: 0000029534
- company_name: DOLLAR GENERAL CORP
- filed_at: 2023-10-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29534/000110465923108865/0001104659-23-108865-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29534/000110465923108865/tm2328316d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-108865
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-108865.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-108865.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffery C. Owen resigned as Chief Executive Officer at DOLLAR GENERAL CORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Mr. Vasos succeeds Jeffery C. Owen, whose separation from the Company and resignation as a director was effective earlier on October 12, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29534/000110465923108865/0001104659-23-108865-index.htm
- Executive change
  Todd J. Vasos was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at DOLLAR GENERAL CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On and effective October 12, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Dollar General Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Todd J. Vasos as Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29534/000110465923108865/0001104659-23-108865-index.htm

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