Leading oral care products manufacturer Colgate-Palmolive today declared a third interim dividend for FY10 at Rs 5 per share, taking its total dividend payout to Rs 20 per share this fiscal, against Rs 15 last fiscal.
The dividend payout will be Rs 68 crore, and payable on April 23, a press release issued here stated today. But it will be eligible to only those shareholders who are on the Register of Members of the Company as on April 9, 2010.
Including this interim dividend, the company has declared a total of Rs 20 per share for this fiscal by way of three interim dividends as against Rs 15 per share in the year-ago period, it said.