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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000057515-23-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MZTI"
cik: "0000057515"
company_name: "MARZETTI CO"
filed_at: "2023-08-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T08:54:00.075505+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lancaster Colony maintains $0.85 quarterly dividend; 60th consecutive annual increase

## Summary
- Quarterly cash dividend of $0.85 per share, payable September 29, 2023 to holders of record September 8, 2023.
- Dividend marks the 60th consecutive year of regular cash dividend increases; one of only 13 U.S. companies with that streak.
- Annual shareholder meeting set for November 8, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. ET in a virtual-only format; record date September 11, 2023.
- CEO David Ciesinski cites strong financial position; this will be the 241st consecutive quarterly dividend since September 1963.
- Common shares outstanding approximately 27,528,000.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000057515-23-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MZTI
- cik: 0000057515
- company_name: MARZETTI CO
- filed_at: 2023-08-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/57515/000005751523000012/0000057515-23-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/57515/000005751523000012/lanc-20230816.htm

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