Genuine Parts (GPC) Declares $0.675 Quarterly Dividend; Announces 15M Share Buyback & Names Russ Hardin to Board

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Genuine Parts Company Announces New Board Member, Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend And Announces Additional 15 Million Share Repurchase Program

August 21, 2017 12:35 PM EDT

ATLANTA, Aug. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC) announced today that its Board of Directors elected P. Russell Hardin as a new independent director of the Company.  Mr. Hardin is President of the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation and the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation.  These foundations manage approximately $10 billion in assets and distribute approximately $400 million in grants each year, which support Georgia's institutions in the areas of education, health, human welfare, the environment, community and economic development, philanthropy and volunteerism, and... More