D.A. Davidson & Co. Opens Colorado Springs Office; One of the Northwest's Top Financial Services Firms Opens Full-Service Investment Office.

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GREAT FALLS Great Falls, city (1990 pop. 55,097), seat of Cascade co., N central Mont., second largest city in the state, at the confluence of the Missouri and Sun rivers and near the falls that give the city its name; inc. 1888. , Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2004

D.A. Davidson & Co. today announced the opening of a full-service investment office in Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. , Colo. The office is the second D.A. Davidson & Co. office in Colorado and the first office to serve individual investors.

Members of the initial office staff include Bill Eastin, Senior Vice President, Regional Director of Retail Branches and Branch Manager, along with three financial consultants and two registered associates.

"We are excited about our new Colorado Springs office and very pleased that these experienced investment professionals have chosen to join us," said Gerry Meyer, Senior Vice President, Director of Regional Branches. "Our presence in this state is a great fit for D.A. Davidson and represents the first move in what we expect to be a growing presence in Colorado."

Along with Eastin, the five investment professionals joining the D.A. Davidson office in Colorado Springs are: Dave Cullity, Vice President, Financial Consultant; Mark Sikorski, Vice President, Financial Consultant; Al English, Vice President, Financial Consultant; and Jan English and Mari Martindell, both Registered Associates. All six join D.A. Davidson with extensive experience in the securities industry, most recently with McDonald Investments, a subsidiary of KeyCorp.

D.A. Davidson, based in Great Falls, Montana Great Falls is a city located in Cascade County, Montana, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,690. It is the county seat of Cascade County^GR6 , has continued to grow in recent years, adding products, services, and new offices despite a national economic downturn. The regional investment firm operates 12 offices serving individual investors across Montana, along with nine in Washington, six in Idaho, three in Oregon, two in Utah and two in Wyoming. The new Colorado Springs office is on the north side of the city, at 8610 Explorer Drive. Eastin will lead efforts to establish new offices in Colorado and in southern Wyoming.

D.A. Davidson also maintains professional investment management operations and investment banking, municipal finance and trust services across the greater Northwest region

This article is about the region in Pennsylvania. For the area of the United States of America, see Pacific Northwest.

The Northwest Region . The company's first Colorado office is an equity capital markets office in Denver, serving institutional investors Institutional Investor

A non-bank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that they qualify for preferential treatment and lower commissions. since January 2002.

Employee-owned D.A. Davidson is the largest full-service investment company based in the greater Northwest and northern Rocky Mountain region The Rocky Mountain Region is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in western North America (Canada and the United States) delineated by Armen Takhtajan and Robert F. Thorne. . D.A. Davidson is owned by Davidson Companies, a financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. holding company with headquarters in Great Falls, Montana. Other firms within the Davidson Companies family are Davidson Trust Co., a wealth management and trust operation; Davidson Investment Advisors Investment Advisor

1. A person making investment recommendations in return for a flat fee or percentage of assets managed, known as a commission.

2. For mutual fund companies, it is the individual who has the day-to-day responsibility of investing and monitoring the cash and , a professional money management firm; and Davidson Travel, a full-service travel agency.

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