Harte-Hanks Board Declares Quarterly Dividend Increase


SAN ANTONIO, TX--(Marketwire - Jan 25, 2012) - Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE: HHS) today reported that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 8.5 cents per share payable on March 15, 2012, to the holders of record of shares of common stock of the company at the close of business on March 2, 2012. This represents a 6.25% increase in the regular quarterly dividend and is the fifteenth dividend increase since the company went public in 1993 for the second time. With the payment of this dividend, Harte-Hanks will have paid consecutive quarterly dividends since the first quarter of 1995.

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