Dividend Aristocrat Procter & Gamble Company (PG) will increase its quarterly dividend by seven percent to $0.562 per share in 2012.
The Procter & Gamble Company provides branded consumer packaged goods to consumers worldwide. The company has five reportable segments: Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care and Baby, Feminine & Family Care. Procter's brands include Gilette, Olay, Old Spice, Safeguard, Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Rejoice, Mach3, Prestobarba, Venus, Cascade, Dawn, Febreze, Mr. Clean, Bounty and Charmin. P&G has paid a dividend every year since its incorporation in 1890. The company was incorporated in Ohio in 1905, having been built from a business founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble.