Cash America announces quarterly dividend.FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 1997--Cash America International Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PWN In gaming, to trounce an opponent. To be "pwned" is to be defeated unmercifully. Pronounced "pone," "pwen," "pawn" or "pun," the derivation of the term is obscure. Some believe it came from a common typo of "own" because the o and p keys are next to each other. ) announced today that the board of directors, at its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting, declared a cash dividend of $0.0125 (1 1/4 cents) per share to be paid to shareholders of common stock of record on May 6, 1997 for payment on May 20, 1997. Cash America International Inc. is the market leader in the specialty finance segment of secured non-recourse loans to individuals, commonly known as pawn loans. The company operated 385 pawnshops world-wide as of March 31, 1997, with 337 locations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , 37 in the United Kingdom and 11 in Sweden. CONTACT: Cash America International Inc., Fort Worth Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs A. Bessant Jr. or Daniel R. Feehan, 817/335-1100 |
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