RPM Declares Quarterly Dividend (PR Newswire)

Thursday July 3, 9:52 am ET Payment of $0.19 per share is 8.6% increase over prior year MEDINA, Ohio, July 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RPM International Inc. (NYSE: RPM - News ) today announced that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.19 per share, payable on July 31, 2008 to stockholders of record as of July 14, 2008. This payment represents an 8.6% increase over the quarterly cash dividend paid at this time last year. RPM's latest cash dividend increase in October 2007 marked its 34th consecutive year of increased cash dividends paid to its stockholders, which places RPM in an elite category of less than half of one percent of all 19,000 publicly-traded U.S. companies. Only 70 other companies, besides RPM, have consecutively paid an increasing annual dividend for this period of time... [read full story]