WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bunge Limited , an integrated, global agribusiness and food company, today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.17 per share of common stock. The dividend is payable on February 29, 2008 to shareholders of record on February 15, 2008.
The company declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.21875 per share on its 4.875% cumulative convertible perpetual preference shares. The dividend is payable on March 1, 2008 to shareholders of record on February 15, 2008.
The company also declared an initial dividend of $16.23 per share on its 5.125% cumulative mandatory convertible preference shares. The dividend is payable on March 1, 2008 to shareholders of record on February 15, 2008, and covers the period from November 7, 2007 through February 29, 2008. Subsequent quarterly dividend payments of $12.8125 per share will be payable from June 1, 2008 through December 1, 2010 on March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1 of each year.
About Bunge Limited
Bunge Limited (http://www.bunge.com/) is a leading global agribusiness and food company founded in 1818 and headquartered in White Plains, New York. Bunge's over 22,000 employees in over 30 countries enhance lives by improving the global agribusiness and food production chain. The company supplies fertilizer to farmers in South America, originates, transports and processes oilseeds, grains and other agricultural commodities worldwide, produces food products for commercial customers and consumers, and supplies raw materials and services to the biofuels industry.
