WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

HanesBrands (NYSE: HBI), a leading marketer of everyday basic apparel under world-class brands in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, today announced that its Board of Directors is raising the company’s quarterly cash dividend by 36 percent, the fourth consecutive double-digit annual increase since establishing the dividend four years ago.

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The board is raising the regular quarterly cash dividend to $0.15 per share, up from $0.11 per share. The dividend will be payable March 7, 2017, to stockholders of record Feb. 14, 2017.

“Continued earnings growth has allowed us to increase our quarterly cash dividend to shareholders for the fourth consecutive year,” Hanes Chief Executive Officer Gerald W. Evans Jr. said. “The company has tripled the cash dividend and returned more than $500 million to shareholders since April 2013.”

HanesBrands, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., is a socially responsible leading marketer of everyday basic innerwear and activewear apparel in the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia-Pacific under some of the world’s strongest apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Maidenform, DIM, Bali, Playtex, Bonds, JMS/Just My Size, Nur Die/Nur Der, L’eggs, Lovable, Wonderbra, Berlei, and Gear for Sports. The company sells T-shirts, bras, panties, shapewear, underwear, socks, hosiery, and activewear produced in the company’s low-cost global supply chain. More information about the company and its corporate social responsibility initiatives, including environmental, social compliance and community improvement achievements, may be found at www.Hanes.com/corporate.

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