WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BB&T Corporation , a regional financial holding company, will report its second quarter 2006 earnings prior to market opening on Thursday, July 20, 2006. John A. Allison, Chairman and CEO and Christopher L. Henson, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call to discuss second quarter performance on Thursday, July 20, 2006, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
This conference call is being webcast live by CCBN and may be accessed at BB&T's website at http://www.bbandt.com/investor/ . A replay of the call will also be available at the same web address until 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, August 4, 2006.
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 http://www.fulldisclosure.com/ or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com/).
About BB&T:
BB&T Corporation, headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC, is a fast growing, highly profitable financial holding company with over $109 billion in assets. Its bank subsidiaries operate more than 1,400 financial centers in the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Maryland, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, Indiana and Washington, D.C. BB&T ranks No. 2 in market share in North Carolina, No. 3 in South Carolina, No. 2 in Virginia/Washington D.C., No. 4 in Kentucky, No. 1 in West Virginia, No. 6 in Georgia and No. 6 in Maryland.
Contact Information:
Analyst Contact
Tom Nicholson, Exec. Vice President, Investor Relations,
336.733-3058
Media Contact:
Bob Denham, Sr. Vice President, Public Relations,
910.914-9073
