Compass Minerals International, Inc. Announces Dividend.Business Editors OVERLAND PARK Overland Park, city (1990 pop. 111,790), Johnson co., NE Kans., a residential suburb of Kansas City; inc. 1960. There is printing and publishing, and the manufacture of apparel, aircraft parts, cement, prepared foods, salt, chemicals, marine accessories, and signs. , Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2004 The Board of Directors of Compass Minerals International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information ) has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.1875 per share on its outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on March 15, 2004, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 1, 2004. About Compass Minerals Based in the Kansas City metropolitan area, Compass is the largest producer of highway deicing De-icing is the process of removing ice from a surface. Anti-icing is the process of preventing ice from forming on a surface. Deicing can be accomplished by mechanical methods (scraping), through the application of heat, by use of chemicals designed to lower salt in North America and the United Kingdom and operates the largest rock salt mines in these regions. The company is also the third-largest producer of general trade salt in North America and the second-largest in the United Kingdom, serving major retailers, agricultural cooperatives and food producers. In addition, Compass is the largest producer of sulfate sulfate, chemical compound containing the sulfate (SO4) radical. Sulfates are salts or esters of sulfuric acid, H2SO4, formed by replacing one or both of the hydrogens with a metal (e.g., sodium) or a radical (e.g., ammonium or ethyl). of potash in North America, which is used in the production of specialty fertilizers. Certain statements in this press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These statements are based on the Company's current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. There can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Factors that could cause the Company's results to differ materially from current expectations include: general economic and business conditions, industry trends, weather, raw material costs and availability, changes in demand for the Company's products, actions of the Company's competitors and the additional factors and risks contained in the Company's registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 11, 2003. |
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