Citizens Holding Company Increases Dividend 4.8% to $.22

Citizens Holding Company CIZN announced today that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.22 per share payable December 31, 2010, to shareholders of record as of December 15, 2010. “Today I am announcing our fourth quarter 2010 dividend of $0.22 per share, an increase of $0.01 over the dividend paid in the third quarter of 2010,” said Greg L. McKee, President and Chief Executive Officer. “This dividend also represents an increase of 4.8% over the dividends paid in the fourth quarter of 2009.”