COMPANY

Department store chain, founded 1938 by William T. Dillard.

Gwen Moritz, "Fortress Dillard's: A Thorn in the Side of Investors, Analysts", Arkansas Business, 1 October 2007:

Scores of CEOs from publicly traded companies grant interviews or otherwise make public statements every day of the year. But a public statement out of Dillard's is so rare -- and Dillard's is under such pressure from disgruntled institutional investors -- that anything Dillard might say in an interview would probably constitute a "material event" that would trigger SEC reporting requirements.

It's probably unrealistic to think that Dillard would sit down and answer questions from Arkansas Business when he won't even return a call from someone who has invested some $90 million in his company. And that's the point: Dillard's Inc., which provided Dillard family members with salaries and dividends in excess of $16 million last year, has rarely been responsive -- not to the press, not to stock analysts, not to investors. And because the company's bylaws give holders of Class B shares -- that is, the Dillard family -- the right to elect eight of 12 directors, there's not a darn thing anyone can do about it.

Official Website:
http://www.dillards.com/

Industry:
Retail

Ticker:
NYSE:DDS

Corporate headquarters:
Little Rock, AR

Sales:
$7.4B (2007)

Employees:
50,000

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Drue Corbusier	Business	c. 1946		Dillard's executive
Alex Dillard	Business	c. 1949		President of Dillard's
Mike Dillard	Business	c. 1951		Dillard's executive
William Dillard II	Business	16-Jun-1945		CEO of Dillard's
William T. Dillard	Business	2-Sep-1914	8-Feb-2002	Founder of Dillard's
James I. Freeman	Business	c. 1949		CFO of Dillard's

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert C. Connor	Business	c. 1941		Dallas investor
Drue Corbusier	Business	c. 1946		Dillard's executive
Alex Dillard	Business	c. 1949		President of Dillard's
Mike Dillard	Business	c. 1951		Dillard's executive
William Dillard II	Business	16-Jun-1945		CEO of Dillard's
James I. Freeman	Business	c. 1949		CFO of Dillard's
John Paul Hammerschmidt	Politician	4-May-1922		Congressman from Arkansas, 1967-93
Peter R. Johnson	Business	c. 1947		Credit Management Services
Warren A. Stephens	Business	c. 1957		Stephens Capital Management
William H. Sutton	Attorney	1931		Friday Eldredge & Clark
J. C. Watts	Politician	18-Nov-1957		Congressman from Oklahoma, 1995-2003

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bob L. Martin	Business	?		CEO of Wal-Mart International, 1993-99

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