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Costco Wholesale Corporation Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend
| Source: Costco
ISSAQUAH, WA--(Marketwire - January 30, 2008) - Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ : COST )
today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash
dividend on Costco Wholesale common stock. The dividend of $.145 per share
is payable February 29, 2008, to shareholders of record at the close of
business on February 15, 2008.
Costco currently operates 531 warehouses, including 389 in the United
States and Puerto Rico, 75 in Canada, 19 in the United Kingdom, six in
Korea, five in Taiwan, seven in Japan and 30 in Mexico. The Company also
operates Costco Online, an electronic commerce web site, at www.costco.com
and at www.costco.ca in Canada. The Company plans to open nineteen to
twenty-one new warehouses (including the relocation of four to five
warehouses to larger and better-located facilities) prior to the end of its
52-week 2008 fiscal year on August 31, 2008.