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Business and Finance
Thu, July 7, 2011
Wed, July 6, 2011 WGL Holdings, Inc. and Washington Gas Light Company Revise Record Date for Dividends Previously Declared on June 30, 2011
WASHINGTON--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--WGL Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: WGL) declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.3875 per share of common stock on June 30, 2011. The quarterly dividend is payable Aug. 1, 2011, to shareholders of record as of July 20, 2011, instead of the previously reported date of July 8, 2011.
Washington Gas Light Company, a utility subsidiary of WGL Holdings, on June 30, 2011, declared regular dividends on all classes of its preferred stock as follows:
| Class of Serial | ||||||||||
Preferred Stock | Dividend Per Share | |||||||||
$ 4.25 Series | $ 1.0625 | |||||||||
$ 4.80 Series | $ 1.20 | |||||||||
$ 5.00 Series | $ 1.25 | |||||||||
Dividends on the utilitya™s preferred stock also are payable Aug. 1, 2011, to shareholders of record as of July 20, 2011, instead of the previously reported date of July 8, 2011.
Common stock dividends have been paid for more than 160 years.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., WGL Holdings, Inc. has three operating segments: (i) the regulated utility segment, which primarily consists of Washington Gas, a natural gas utility that serves over one million customers throughout metropolitan Washington, D.C., and the surrounding region; (ii) the retail energy-marketing segment which consists of Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc., a third-party marketer that competitively sells natural gas and electricity and (iii) the design-build energy systems segment, which consists of Washington Gas Energy Systems, Inc., a provider of design-build energy efficiency solutions to government and commercial clients.
Additional information about WGL Holdings, Inc. is available on its website, [ wglholdings.com ]. Go to [ washingtongas.com ] for more information about Washington Gas Light Company.
