Independent Bank Corporation Announces Earnings Conference Call; Thursday, January 16, 2003, At 2:00 p.m. ET -1:00 p.m. CT-.

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IONIA, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2003

Independent Bank Corporation (Nasdaq:IBCP), a Michigan-based bank holding company, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss fourth quarter 2002 results on Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1:00 p.m. Central Time). This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at Independent Bank Corporation's web site at www.ibcp.com.

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network such as America Online's Personal Finance Channel, Fidelity Investments(R) (Fidelity.com) and others. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). StreetEvents allows institutional investors to identify, organize, and track the hundreds of conference calls that occur each day during earnings season, to download events of interest to their Outlook calendar, and to RSVP to events online.

Independent Bank Corporation and its subsidiaries operate 97 offices across Michigan's Lower Peninsula. The Company's common stock trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol IBCP.