Oct 26, 2005. /Lesprom Network/. Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. announced on Tuesday that its board of directors has approved a dividend payment to shareholders of record on November 7, 2005, amounting to $0.025 per common share, payable on December 1, 2005. Abitibi-Consolidated is a leading producer of newsprint and commercial printing papers as well as a major supplier of wood products, serving 70 countries from more than 50 operating facilities. Committed to the sustainable forest management of more than 40 million acres through third-party certification, the Company is also the world's largest recycler of newspapers and magazines, collecting and consuming the equivalent of more than five billion newspapers every year.