This cash dividend is payable on August 11, 2015 to stockholders of record on June 30, 2015, and is Nucor's 169^thconsecutive quarterly cash dividend.

Nucor and affiliates are manufacturers of steel products, with operating facilities primarily in the U.S. andCanada. Products produced include: carbon and alloy steel -- in bars, beams, sheet and plate; steel piling; steel joists and joist girders; steel deck; fabricated concrete reinforcing steel; cold finished steel; steel fasteners; metal building systems; steel grating and expanded metal; and wire and wire mesh. Nucor, through The David J. Joseph Company, also brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron and HBI/DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap. Nucor is North America's largest recycler.