B&G Foods Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend of $.17

B&G Foods, Inc. BGS announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.17 per share of common stock. The dividend will be payable on January 31, 2011 to shareholders of record as of December 31, 2010. At the closing market price of the common stock on October 18, 2010, the current dividend represents an annualized yield of 6.0%. This is the twenty-fifth consecutive quarterly dividend declared by the Board of Directors since B&G Foods' initial public offering in October 2004.