PHILADELPHIA — FMC Corporation's board of directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend of 13.5 cents per share, payable on Jan. 17, 2013 to shareholders of record as of Dec. 31, 2012. The dividend is up 4.5 cents per share, or 50 percent, over the dividend paid on Oct. 18, 2012.

"Today's announcement reflects our continued confidence in FMC's ability to continue to grow and to generate healthy earnings and cash flow," said Pierre Brondeau, FMC president, CEO and chairman. Brondeau demonstrated his own confidence in FMC by purchasing $1 million of FMC stock in February of 2010.

FMC, a specialty chemicals company with annual sales of about $3.4 billion and operations worldwide, operates a trona mine outside of Green River and a processing plant in Granger.

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