FBL Financial Group Raises Quarterly Dividend Ten Percent.WEST DES MOINES, Iowa West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 46,403; a special census taken in the spring of 2005 counted 51,744 residents. -- FBL FBL Full Bell Lines (coin grading) FBL Fly by Light FBL FIATA Bill of Lading FBL Functional Baseline FBL Foundation for a Better Life FBL Federal Barge Lines, Inc. Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FFG FFG Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (German: Austrian research promotion agency) FFG Flash Flood Guidance FFG Guided Missile Frigate FFG Fall from Grace (band) FFG Fast Frigates FFG Freeware Flight Group ) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a ten percent increase in the quarterly cash dividend to $0.115 per share from $0.105 per share on its Class A and Class B common stock. The dividend reflects an indicated annual dividend rate of $0.46 per share. The dividend will be payable on March 31, 2006 to shareholders of record as of March 15, 2006. There are 28,112,658 shares of Class A common stock and 1,192,990 shares of Class B common stock, for a total of 29,305,648 common shares outstanding. FBL Financial Group (www.fblfinancial.com) is a holding company whose primary operating subsidiaries An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. are Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company and EquiTrust Life Insurance Company. FBL underwrites, markets and distributes life insurance, annuities and mutual funds to individuals and small businesses. In addition, FBL manages all aspects of three Farm Bureau affiliated property-casualty insurance companies for a management fee. FBL's three-pronged growth strategy includes (1) growth through its traditional Farm Bureau Life distribution channel, (2) growth in EquiTrust Life through independent and other distribution channels and (3) acquisitions or consolidations. FFG-1 |
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