Family Dollar Increases Quarterly Dividend by 16% to $.18

Family Dollar Stores, Inc. FDO announced that the Company's Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend on the Company's common stock of $0.18 per share, payable Friday, April 15, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. The quarterly cash dividend of $0.18 per share is an increase of 16.1% from the preceding quarterly cash dividend of $0.155 per share.