DUBLIN, Feb. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Perrigo Company plc
(NYSE, TASE: PRGO) today announced that its Board of Directors
declared a quarterly dividend of $0.16 per share, payable on March 21, 2017 to shareholders of record on
March 3, 2017.
About Perrigo
Perrigo Company plc, a leading global
over-the-counter ("OTC") consumer goods and pharmaceutical company,
offers patients and customers high quality products at affordable
prices. From its beginnings in 1887 as a packager of home remedies,
Perrigo, headquartered in Ireland,
has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of OTC
healthcare products and supplier of infant formulas for the store
brand market. The Company is also a leading provider of generic
extended topical prescription products and receives royalties from
the sales of the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri®. Perrigo provides
Quality Affordable Healthcare Products® across a wide variety of
product categories and geographies primarily in North America, Europe, and Australia, as well as other markets, including
Israel, China and Latin
America.
A copy of this announcement will be available on Perrigo's
website at www.perrigo.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this
press release are "forward-looking statements." These statements
relate to future events or the Company's future financial
performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors that may cause the actual results, levels of
activity, performance or achievements of the Company or its
industry to be materially different from those expressed or implied
by any forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking
statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will,"
"could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate,"
"intend," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential" or the
negative of those terms or other comparable terminology. The
Company has based these forward-looking statements on its current
expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While the
Company believes these expectations, assumptions, estimates and
projections are reasonable, such forward-looking statements are
only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and
uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control,
including the timing, amount and cost of share repurchases, future
impairment charges, the ability to achieve its guidance and the
ability to execute and achieve the desired benefits of announced
initiatives. These and other important factors, including those
discussed under "Risk Factors" in the Company's Form 10-KT for the
six-month period ended December 31,
2015, as well as the Company's subsequent filings with the
SEC, may cause actual results, performance or achievements to
differ materially from those expressed or implied by these
forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this
press release are made only as of the date hereof, and unless
otherwise required by applicable securities laws, the Company
disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
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SOURCE Perrigo Company plc