February 12, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Scana Corp.’s (NYSE: SCG) board of directors has voted to raise the quarterly cash dividend on the company’s common stock to 47.5 cents per share from 47 cents per share, an increase of 1.1 percent.

The action increases the indicated annual dividend rate to $1.90 per share from $1.88 per share. Scana has increased the annual dividend rate on its common stock in 56 of the last 58 years. The new dividend is payable April 1, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 10, 2010.

South Carolina-based Scana is an energy-based holding company principally engaged, through subsidiaries, in electric and natural gas utility operations and other energy-related businesses.

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