Established in 1959, Family Dollar Stores, Inc., (FDO) a Fortune 500 company, is a publicly held company with common stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Based in Matthews, North Carolina., the stores offers products, such as grocery, health/beauty supplies, expand clothing, laundry care/detergents, home d cors well as paper/plastic products. It provides groceries and apparel of national brands. Additionally, it offers appetizers, breakfast, dinner and dessert recipes. Most outlets of FDO comply with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification standards.