MIAMI, (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Burger King Holdings Inc. (NYSE:BKC) announced today that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.0625 per share of common stock. The dividend is payable on December 29, 2008 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 10, 2008.
The BURGER KING(R) system operates more than 11,600 restaurants in all 50 states and in 73 countries and U.S. territories worldwide. Approximately 90 percent of BURGER KING(R) restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees, many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades. In 2008, Fortune magazine ranked Burger King Corp. among America's 1,000 largest corporations. To learn more about Burger King Holdings Inc. please visit the company's Web site at www.bk.com.
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Founded in 1954, the Burger King® brand is the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world.