Lancaster Colony Corporation recently announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 70 cents per common share, marking 57 consecutive years of increasing regular cash dividends.
The company is one of only 13 U.S. companies with 57 straight years of regular cash dividend increases. The dividend will be payable on December 31, 2019 to shareholders of record on December 6, 2019.
As of the record date for today’s annual shareholder meeting, there were 27,492,982 common shares outstanding.
CEO David A. Ciesinski said, “The increased regular cash dividend reflects the company’s continued strong financial position and will be the 226th consecutive quarterly cash dividend paid by the company since September 1963.” He noted that the indicated annual payout for the current fiscal year ending June 30, 2020 is $2.75 per share, up from the $2.55 per share paid in fiscal 2019.
