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• Dollar General says that its fourth quarter sales were $2.85 billion, up 11.2 percent from a year earlier, on same-store sales that were up 9.4 percent.

• Molson Coors Brewing said that its fourth quarter profit fell 44 percent to $96.8 million, from $173.2 million a year earlier. Q4 revenue fell 49 percent to $1.10 billion.

For the full year, the company’s net income dropped 22 percent to $388 million, from $497.2 million a year ago. Revenue fell 4 percent.

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