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Prosperity Bank
Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Houston, Texas with operations in Texas and central Oklahoma. As of December 31, 2019, the company operated 285 branches: 65 in the Houston area, including The Woodlands, Texas; 30 in South Texas, including Corpus Christi, Texas and Victoria, Texas; 75 in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex; 22 in East Texas; 29 in Central Texas, including Austin, Texas and San Antonio; 34 in West Texas, including Lubbock, Texas, Midland–Odessa, and Abilene, Texas; 16 in Bryan–College Station; 6 in Central Oklahoma; and 8 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. History The company was formed in 1983 to purchase a former Allied Bank branch in Edna, Texas. The Edna bank dated back to 1949 as the First National Bank of Edna. In November 2008, in a transaction organized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the company acquired Franklin Bank, which suffered from bank failure. In 2010, the company acquired three branches in Texas as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of share capital, stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listing (finance), listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not (unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states and so have associations and formal designations, which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation, though a corporation need not be a public company. In the United Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Texas
West Texas is a loosely defined region in the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the desert climate, arid and semiarid climate, semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Texas, Wichita Falls, Abilene, Texas, Abilene, and Del Rio, Texas, Del Rio. No consensus exists on the boundary between East Texas and West Texas. While most Texans understand these terms, no boundaries are officially recognized and any two people are likely to describe the boundaries of these regions differently. The historian and geographer Walter Prescott Webb has suggested that the 98th meridian west, 98th meridian separates East and West Texas; writer A.C. Greene proposed that West Texas extends west of the Brazos River. Use of a single line, though, seems to preclude the use of other separators, such as an area—Central Texas. Texas is part of the Southern United States, South and the American Southwest at the same time, while the semiarid and desert climates of Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American City Business Journals
American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ACBJ publishes ''The Business Journals'', which contains local business news for 44 markets in the United States with each market's edition named for that market, and also publishes '' Hemmings Motor News'' and '' Inside Lacrosse''. The company is owned by Advance Publications and receives revenue from display advertising and classified advertising in its weekly newspaper and online advertising on its website and from a subscription business model. The bizjournals.com website, using the overarching online title ''The Business Journal'', contains local business news from various cities in the United States, along with an archive that contains more than 5 million business news articles published since 1996. it receives over 3.6 million readers each week. History American City Business Journals, Inc. was founded in 1982 by Mike K. Russell with the launch of the ''K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American State Bank
American State Bank was a financial service company operating 37 locations in 21 communities across Texas, mainly in West Texas. American State Bank first opened on May 20, 1948, in Lubbock. American State Bank had unusual continuity of management - there were only three presidents since its inception. The first president, Jack Payne, had a term lasting from the banks first opening until 1974. American State Bank did not accept any bailout funds from the federal government. On February 27, 2012, Houston-based Prosperity Bancshares, the parent company of Prosperity Bank, announced that it had signed a merger agreement with ASB, whereby ASB will merge into Prosperity Bank subject to shareholder and regulatory approval. The merger became final effective July 1, 2012. Prosperity Bancshares ultimately paid over 500 million dollars, through a combination of cash and common stock, to acquire American State Bank. References {{reflist Banks based in Texas Companies based in Lubb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
