CVS Corporation Announces Quarterly Dividend.Business Editors WOONSOCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 12, 2000 CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CVS) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved its quarterly cash dividend at the rate of $0.0575 per share on the Company's common stock, payable February 4, 2000, to shareholders of record January 24, 2000. As of January 1, 2000, CVS operated 4,098 stores in 26 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , versus 4,122 a year ago. CVS is the largest retail provider of prescriptions in the nation. The Company is the No. 1 drugstore chain in the U.S. with stores in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Midwest regions of the country. General information about CVS is available through the "Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. " link on the home page of the Company's web site, at http://www.CVS.com. |
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