DuPont Announces 5% Dividend Increase to $0.43

DuPont

today announced that its board of directors has approved a 5 percent increase in the company's quarterly cash dividend. The second quarter dividend will increase from 41 to 43 cents per share for common stock, payable June 12, 2012, to stockholders of record May 15, 2012. This is the 431st consecutive quarterly dividend since the company's first dividend in the fourth quarter of 1904.