Hershey Foods (NYSE: HSY) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.656 per share, or $2.624 annualized. This is a 6.1% increase from the prior dividend of $0.618.

The dividend will be payable on September 15, 2017, to stockholders of record on August 25, 2017, with an ex-dividend date of August 23, 2017.

The annual yield on the dividend is 2.4 percent.

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