06-05-2015, 09:38 AM
Flowers Foods announced a quarterly dividend of $.145 per share, which represents an increase of 9.4% over the quarterly dividend paid previously. The dividend is payable on July 2, 2015, to shareholders of record on June 19, 2015. This action increases the annualized dividend rate to $.58 per share, a 20.8% increase from the annualized rate at this time last year.