First Financial Corporation announces dividend increase and sets annual meeting date.STEVENS POINT Stevens Point, city (1990 pop. 23,006), seat of Portage co., central Wis., on the Wisconsin and Plover rivers; inc. 1858. The major industries are insurance and the manufacture of wood products, cheese, furniture, and fishing equipment. The Univ. , Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 1996--First Financial Corporation announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a 25% increase in the regular quarterly cash dividend. The new dividend of $.15 per share on its common stock is payable to shareholders of record on March 15, and will be paid on March 29, 1996. The company registered its sixth straight record year for profitability in 1995. Company officials said the dividend increase is consistent with their stated policy to return at least 20% of normal recurring profits to shareholders. The dividend is the 61st consecutive quarterly dividend paid by the company since it went public in 1980. The company also announced that its annual meeting of shareholders will be held on Wednesday, April 17, 1996 at 10:00 a.m. at the Holiday Inn in Stevens Point, Wisconsin Stevens Point, Portage County, is located in the central part of the U.S. State of Wisconsin. It is the largest city and the county seat. As of the 2000 US Federal Census, the population was 24,551. The city was incorporated in 1858. . First Financial Corporation is the holding company for First Financial Bank, one of the midwest's largest savings banks. The company has approximately $5.5 billion in assets and operates 129 consumer banking offices in Wisconsin and Illinois. The company's common stock trades on the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on National Market tier of the NASDAQ stock market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol: FFHC FFHC Freedom from Hunger Campaign . CONTACT: First Financial Corporation, Stevens Point Thomas Neuschaefer, 715/345-4427 Ken Csinicsek, 715/345-4352 |
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