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Costco Wholesale Corporation Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend
| Source: Costco
ISSAQUAH, WA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 1, 2007 -- Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ : COST )
today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash
dividend on Costco Wholesale common stock. The dividend of $.13 per share
is payable February 28, 2007, to shareholders of record at the close of
business on February 14, 2007.
Costco currently operates 504 warehouses, including 371 in the United
States and Puerto Rico, 70 in Canada, 19 in the United Kingdom, five in
Korea, four in Taiwan, five in Japan and 30 in Mexico. The Company also
operates Costco Online, an electronic commerce web site, at www.costco.com
and at www.costco.ca in Canada. The Company plans to open an additional
sixteen to seventeen new warehouses, including the relocation of one
warehouse to a larger and better-located facility, prior to the end of its
52-week 2007 fiscal year ending on September 2, 2007.