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Community Federal Renamed Community Financial; Michigan-Based Credit Union Establishes Stronger Identity with Financial Services.


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PLYMOUTH, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2003

Community Federal Credit Union, headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan Plymouth is a city in Wayne County of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,022 at the 2000 census. The city is located within Plymouth Township, but is politically independent. , today announced its name change to Community Financial. The federally-chartered credit union made the change to more strongly emphasize its commitment to the communities it serves and to better communicate the full range of financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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The credit union's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  Roger Ballard said, "Our decision to become 'Community Financial' came after months of research and talking with our members, employees, non-members and others in the community."

He added, "For us, 'Community' is very important, because we work hard to be a good corporate citizen in the communities where our members live and work, and 'Financial' best describes our full range of services which includes loans, savings and investment programs for personal and commercial accounts."

Community Financial's new tagline "Thinking Forward. Banking Right." also reflects the expansion of services that have been added during the credit union's 52-year history. More recently, comfortable Internet stations This is a list of Wikipedia articles on Internet streaming media resources. Internet radio guides
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 with coffee service have been added to some of the branches to give members more convenience in looking up their accounts and other financial information.

Ballard said, "Simply put, we want to make banking easier for our members and ensure that these services are delivered in a friendly, professional manner."

Among its community outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public.  programs, Community Financial participates in area Chamber activities, operates 17 student credit unions in local schools, provides annual scholarships to graduating seniors, sponsors member education seminars and volunteers for special community-based programs.

Community Financial's members have already been advised of the name change which has no affect on their accounts or the benefits of credit union membership. Promotional activities to communicate the name change to others will be ongoing over the next several months.

Headquartered in Plymouth, Mich., membership in Community Financial is open to anyone who lives, works, worships, volunteers or attends school in the Michigan cities Michigan City, city (1990 pop. 33,822), La Porte co., NW Ind., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1836. Michigan City produces machinery, consumer articles, kitchen and transportation equipment, concrete and wire products, chemicals, apparel, and cast iron boilers. , townships or counties of Plymouth, Canton Canton, cities, United States
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1 City (1990 pop. 13,922), Fulton co., W central Ill., in the corn belt; inc. 1849. It is a trade and industrial center for a coal and farm area.

2 Town (1990 pop. 18,530), Norfolk co.
, Northville, Novi, Alpena, Otsego and Montmorency. With more than 34,000 members, Community Financial provides financial services to members at seven branch locations and through a variety of automated au·to·mate  
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 and online services. For more information, visit the credit union web site at www.cfcu.org or call (734) 453-1200 or (877) 937-2328, toll free.
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