Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (NASDAQ: COKE) today announced that the Board of Directors has declared a dividend for the First Quarter of 2012 of $.25 per share on shares of the Company's Common Stock and Class B Common Stock payable on February 17, 2012 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on February 3, 2012.

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