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Hormel Foods Corporation Declares Quarterly Dividend

Austin, Minn.
Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), a multinational marketer of consumer-branded food and meat products, announced today that its quarterly dividend on the common stock, authorized by the Board of Directors at seventeen cents (17¢) a share on September 23, 2013, will be paid November 15, 2013, to stockholders of record at the close of business on October 21, 2013.
The November 15 payment will be the 341st consecutive quarterly dividend paid by the company. Since becoming a public company in 1928, Hormel Foods Corporation has paid a regular quarterly dividend without interruption.