Cardinal Health Announces Quarterly Dividend, Preliminary Shareholder Voting Results at Annual Meeting

Cardinal Health today announced that the board of directors approved a regular quarterly dividend of $0.215 per share, payable Jan. 15, 2012, to shareholders of record on Jan. 1, 2012. This is the 109th consecutive regular quarterly dividend. In addition, the preliminary results of shareholder voting at its annual meeting of shareholders were also released. Based on preliminary voting results, shareholders re-elected all 12 members to the board, ratified Ernst & Young as the company's independent registered public accounting firm and approved the company's long-term incentive plan. In addition, shareholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of certain executive officers and selected, on an advisory basis, an annual vote on the frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation. One shareholder proposal failed to pass.