Pacific Capital Bancorp Announces Change in Stock Symbol to PCBC.Business Editors SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2003 Pacific Capital Bancorp announced today that it is changing its stock symbol from SABB SABB Saudi British Bank SABB Storage Array Building Block SABB Solar Array Blanket Box(es) to PCBC PCBC Propagating Cipher Block Chaining PCBC Pacific Coast Builder Conference PCBC Pembroke College Boat Club PCBC Purdue Contract Bridge Club (West Lafayette, Indiana) effective at the start of trading activity on Friday, January 31, 2003. According to William S. Thomas, Jr., President & Chief Executive Officer, the change will more closely tie the company's ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors to its name. The company's former symbol was intentionally retained for a period following the merger between Santa Barbara Bancorp and Pacific Capital Bancorp in December 1998 in order to retain the historical stock trading information of Santa Barbara Bancorp. Thomas and the company's chief financial officer, Donald Lafler, will join the opening ceremony 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. on January 31 to mark the occasion. They will be in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to present at the Sixth Annual Financial Services Conference hosted by Salomon Smith Barney. Pacific Capital Bancorp is the parent company of Pacific Capital Bank, N.A., a nationally chartered bank with four brands: Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, First National Bank of Central California, South Valley National Bank and San Benito Bank. Pacific Capital Bank, N.A. is a 41-branch community bank network serving customers in six Central Coast counties, from Morgan Hill in the north to Westlake Village/Thousand Oaks in the south. |
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