Weekly Summary Corporate dividends, name changes, new listings
NEW YORK (AP) - Changes announced in corporate dividends Aug. 15-Dec. 19.
INCREASED DIVIDENDS
Badger Meter .23 from .20
Briggs & Stratton .14 from .135
Brinker International .34 from .32
Chemical Financial .27 from .26
Delta Natural Gas .205 from .2075
First American Financial .34 from .26
ITC Holdings Corp .2155 from .1875
Nacco Industries .2675 from .2625
Nordson Corp .27 from .24
Pinnacle Foods .285 from .255
United Bancorp .11 from .10
Whirlpool Corp 1.00 from .90
g- Canadian funds
Reduced Dividends
Communications Systems .04 from .16
Other corporate news and listings:
DECLARED STOCK SPLITS
Brown-Forman Cl A & B 2 for 1 split
ACQUISITIONS AND Mergers
Minimum value $100 million
Cavium Inc - QLogic Corp (1.4B)
Huntington Bancshares Inc - FirstMerit Corp (3.4B)
Marketo Inc - Vista Eqity Partners Management (1.8B)
NEW STOCK LISTINGS
NYSE
Digital Realtytrust 7pc Series E
Medley LLC
Rexford Industrial Realty Inc pfd A
Seaspan Corp pfd H
NASDAQ GLOBAL AND GLOBAL SELECT MARKETS
Gladstone Land Corp 6.375pc preferred series A
Huntington Bancshares 5.875pc pfd C
STOCKS REMOVED FROM TRADING
NYSE
Associated Banc Corp 8pc pfd B
Firstmerit Corp 5.875pc pfd A
CORPORATE NAME CHANGES
Sovran Self Storage Inc to Life Storage Inc