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On February 3, 2023, French pharmaceutical company Sanofi , a Dividend Aristocrat , announced its annual dividend increase with a 6.9% hike to €3.56 per share for FY 2022. This is the biggest dividend increase by Sanofi in the last 14 years.

On January 25, 2023, Dividend Aristocrat Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) announced a 1.7% dividend hike to $1.18 quarterly per share. This marks 51 consecutive years of dividend growth for the tissues and diapers maker but also is the smallest increase in more than a decade.

A typical Air Products truck transporting industrial gases (image credit: company website) Air Products and Chemicals, Inc . (trading symbol APD) will raise its quarterly dividend for the 41st consecutive year with another 8% dividend hike to $1.75 quarterly per share. This matches a dividend hike of 8% announced in 2022. The industrial gases company announced this new dividend increase on January 26, 2023.

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis , one of only a handful of real European Dividend Aristocrats, will raise its dividend for the 26th consecutive year in 2023. 

In a very busy week for with many companies announcing dividend hikes , oil company Chevron (CVX) also declared an increased quarterly dividend rate of $1.51 per share, up 6.3% from the previous quarterly dividend of $1.42 per share.

On January 24, 2023, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced its annual index changes for the Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index. Five new companies are added and seven companies will be deleted.

On January 27, 2023, Dividend Aristocrat Cincinnati Financial (trading symbol CINF) announced a dividend hike of 8.7% from $0.69 to $0.75 quarterly per share. This marks 63 straight years of dividend growth for the insurer.