Arkansas Best maintains 3-cent dividend

Fort Smith-based Arkansas Best Corp. has again declared a quarterly cash dividend of 3 cents, the freight transportation services company said Friday.

The dividend will be payable Nov. 22 to its shareholders of record as of Nov. 8, the company said in a statement.

The company has offered a 3-cent dividend since October 2009; it regularly offered a quarterly dividend of 15 cents for the four years before that.

Arkansas Best plans to announce its third-quarter earnings Nov. 11 before the market opens.

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