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The General Mills Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.49 per share, payable August 1, 2017, to shareholders of record July 10, 2017. This represents an increase of 2 percent from the previous quarterly rate of $0.48 per share, and marks the thirteenth increase in the quarterly dividend rate in the last ten years.

Mastercard announced that The Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.22 per share, payable on August 9, 2017, to holders of record of its Class A common stock and Class B common stock as of July 7, 2017.

The Board of Directors of S&P Global has approved a regular quarterly cash dividend on the Corporation's common stock. The dividend of $0.41 is payable on September 12, 2017, to shareholders of record on August 28, 2017. The annualized dividend rate is $1.64 per share. The Company has paid a dividend each year since 1937 and is one of fewer than 25 companies in the S&P 500® that has increased its dividend annually for at least the last 44 years.

The Board of Directors of Campbell Soup today declared a regular quarterly dividend on Campbell's capital stock of $0.35 per share. The quarterly dividend is payable July 31, 2017, to shareholders of record at the close of business July 13, 2017.

The Board of Directors of McCormick declared a quarterly dividend of $0.47 per share on its common stocks payable July 24, 2017, to shareholders of record on July 10, 2017. McCormick's current annualized dividend rate of $1.88 per share represents an increase of 9% over the annual dividend of $1.72 per share paid in fiscal year 2016. This is the 93rd year of consecutive dividend payments by the Company.

For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.