NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. tobacco giant Altria Group Inc. said Wednesday it planned to spin off its Philip Morris International Inc. cigarette unit to shareholders.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. drug giant Pfizer said Thursday it had decided to increase its stock dividend for 2006 to 24 cents.
DALLAS, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Texas Instruments of Dallas said Friday its board has authorized the company to repurchase $1 billion of its common stock.
PADUCAH, Ky., June 24 (UPI) -- Computer Services of Paducah, Ky., said Thursday its directors voted to hike the quarterly cash common stock dividend by 28.6 percent.
PEORIA, Ill., June 9 (UPI) -- Caterpillar Inc. of Illinois said Wednesday its board of directors agreed to raise the company's common stock dividend 11 percent.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 27 (UPI) -- The board of directors of Cato Corp. of North Carolina Thursday voted to increase the company's common stock dividend by 9 percent.
NEW YORK, May 20 (UPI) -- Tiffany & Co. of New York said Thursday its Board of Directors have voted to increase the company's quarterly common stock cash dividend by 20 percent.
PHILADELPHIA, May 20 (UPI) -- Deb Shops Inc. of Philadelphia said Thursday its board of directors has declared a special dividend of 40 cents a share.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Microsoft, with its second quarter earnings, Thursday announced its intention to pay a quarterly dividend of 4 cents per share, a total of 16 cents per annum. In addition, Microsoft common stock is to be split 2 for 1.
DETROIT, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Ford Motor Co. shareholders got some bad news. Five top executives Thursday announced their retirements and the board of directors cut the regular quarterly div
