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Heller Financial, Inc. Declares Dividends for Class A and B Common Stocks
and for Series A, C and D Preferred Stocks
(Chicago, IL, October 18, 2000) -- Heller Financial, Inc. (NYSE: HF) today
declared dividends on its two classes of common stock, Class A Common Stock
(which was issued in May, 1998 and is held publicly) and Class B (all of which
is held of record by Fuji America Holdings, Inc.), and on three of the Company's
preferred stocks, Cumulative Perpetual Senior Preferred Stock, Series A, Fixed
Rate Noncumulative Perpetual Senior Preferred Stock, Series C, and Fixed Rate
Noncumulative Perpetual Senior Preferred Stock, Series D.
The Company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.10 on each outstanding
share of its Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, payable on November
15, 2000 to the holders of record thereof on November 1, 2000. In total,
approximately 96 million shares of Class A and Class B common stock are
outstanding.
The Company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.5078125 on each share of
the 5,000,000 outstanding shares of the Cumulative Perpetual Senior Preferred
Stock, Series A, payable on November 15, 2000 to the holders of record thereof
on November 1, 2000.
The Company declared a quarterly dividend of $1.67175 on each share of the
1,500,000 outstanding shares of the Fixed Rate Noncumulative Perpetual Senior
Preferred Stock, Series C, payable on November 15, 2000 to the holders of record
thereof on November 1, 2000.
The Company declared a quarterly dividend of $1.7375 on each share of the
1,250,000 outstanding shares of the Fixed Rate Noncumulative Perpetual Senior
Preferred Stock, Series D, payable on November 15, 2000 to the holders of record
thereof on November 1, 2000.
Heller Financial, Inc., is a worldwide commercial finance company providing
a broad range of financing solutions to middle-market and small business
clients. With nearly $19 billion in total assets, Heller offers equipment
financing and leasing, sales finance programs, collateral- and cash flow-based
financing, financing for healthcare companies and financing for commercial real
estate. The company also offers trade finance, factoring, asset-based lending,
leasing and vendor finance products and programs to clients in Europe, Asia, and
Latin America. Heller's common stock is listed as "HF" on the New York and
Chicago Stock Exchanges. Heller can be found on the World Wide Web at
http://www.hellerfinancial.com.
