Recent Dividend Increases (News and Updates)

[FrugalTrader]

I couldn't find a thread already started, so I thought a thread on dividend increases would be interesting for dividend investors out there.

I'll start!

August 8/12

BCE says it’s dividend rate will be increased to $2.27 per share annually, or 56.75 cents per share quarterly, beginning with the October payout.

[Beaver101]

Maybe late in the game but my favourite small-cap RSI had a dividend increase to $.36 (from $.34 or ~5.6% increase) per annum effective July 20, 2012 (found out only when paid - nice surprise so no complaint).

[dubmac]

gotta luv Bell
(buy it, DRIP it & forget about it)

[doctrine]

Telus's July dividend was $0.61, which was an increase from $0.58, although it was announced a while ago.

[FrugalTrader]

August 2012 - FCR increased their quarterly dividend by 5% to $0.21 (up from $0.20).

[HaroldCrump]

How recent are we talking about?
Agrium doubled their dividend earlier this year.
Some of the banks raised their dividends too.

[FrugalTrader]

August 2012 - Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Inc ( TSX : RBA ) increased their quarterly dividend by 8.8% to $ 0.1225.

[doctrine]

Autocanada from $0.15 to $0.16, an increase of 6.7% and the 6th dividend increase in 6 quarters.

[Eder]

Algonquin Power increased their div by 11% today....they should yield about 4.7% now.

edit: I just noticed High Liner Foods increased their div by 10%.

[Square Root]

BNS/TD/RY are likely to raise their divs when they report q3 results later this month.