CNS, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend; Announces Authorization To Repurchase One Million Shares Of Common Stock

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2005--CNS, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXS), the Breathe Right(R) company, today announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of six cents per share of common stock. The dividend is payable on September 9, 2005, to shareholders of record on August 26, 2005. In addition, the company today announced that its board of directors authorized the repurchase of up to one million additional shares of common stock under the company’s stock repurchase program. Since the beginning of the stock repurchase program in February 2002, the company has purchased approximately one million shares of its common stock. The company intends to buy back shares from time to time in market or in privately negotiated transactions using available company cash.