SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sterling Financial Corporation , a leading community bank in the western region, will hold an Investor Day for analysts and investors on Tuesday, February 27, 2007.
The event will be held at the NASDAQ MarketSite, New York, NY. Registration and continental breakfast will begin at 7:30 a.m. EST with the event starting at 8:30. Sterling's executive and senior management will present (see event schedule). At the end of presentations, lunch will be provided. It is anticipated the event will end at 2:30 pm.
Seating for this event is limited, and analysts and investors interested in attending are therefore encouraged to sign up as soon as possible. For more information, or to RSVP, please email
For those interested but unable to join us in person in New York, please join us in viewing the live investor day presentations on Tuesday, February 27, 2007. Please log on to the webcast 10 minutes prior to the 8:30 a.m. EST start time by going to the investor relations section of Sterling Financial Corporation's website located at http://www.sterlingfinancialcorporation-spokane.com/. These presentations will be also available for replay following the event's conclusion through April 15, 2007.
The following is the event schedule and this can also be found at http://www.sterlingfinancialcorporation-spokane.com/
STERLING FINANCIAL CORPORATION
2007 Investor Day
February 27, 2007 at NASDAQ MarketSite, New York, NY
Event Schedule EVENT SPEAKER TOPIC
Eastern Standard
Time
7:30am-8:00am Registration/Continental
Breakfast
8:30am Mr. Harold Gilkey Chairman and Welcome/
CEO of Sterling Strategic
Financial Overview
Corporation
8:45am Mr. Dan Byrne EVP and CFO of Financial
Sterling Financial Highlights
Corporation and Outlook
into 2007
9:00am Mr. Donn Costa Sr. VP of Golf Golf Savings
Savings Bank Bank
9:20am-9:40am Brief question and answer period and short break
9:40am Mr. Bill Zuppe Chairman and CEO Overview of
of Sterling Sterling Savings
Savings Bank Bank
Review of
subsidiaries:
-Action Mortgage
-INTERVEST
-Harbor
Financial
Services
10:10am Ms. Heidi Stanley Vice Chair and COO Sterling Savings
of Sterling Bank
Savings Bank -Strategic
Review
-Retail Banking
10:40am Ms. Carol Mangan EVP Commercial Commercial
Banking Banking
11:00am Mr. Ezra Eckhardt EVP and Chief Production
Administration Support
Officer
11:20am-11:55am Brief question and answer period and short break
11:55am Ms. Nancy McDaniel EVP Portfolio Loan and
Manager Investments
Portfolio
12:15pm Mr. Stephen Page EVP and Chief Credit Culture
Credit Officer
12:35pm Mr. Harold Gilkey Chairman and CEO Closing/
of Sterling Questions
Financial and Answers
Corporation
1:30pm-2:30pm Lunch provided Executive and Senior Management
Available
ABOUT STERLING
Sterling Financial Corporation of Spokane, Washington, is a bank holding company of which the principal operating subsidiaries are Sterling Savings Bank and Golf Savings Bank. Sterling Savings Bank is a Washington State- chartered, federally insured commercial bank, which opened in April 1983 as a stock savings and loan association. Sterling Savings Bank, based in Spokane, Washington, has financial service centers throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Through Sterling Savings Bank's wholly owned subsidiaries, Action Mortgage Company and INTERVEST-Mortgage Investment Company, it operates loan production offices throughout the western region. Sterling Savings Bank's subsidiary Harbor Financial Services provides non-bank investments, including mutual funds, variable annuities and tax-deferred annuities and other investment products through regional representatives throughout Sterling Savings Bank's branch network.
Golf Savings Bank is a Washington State-chartered and FDIC insured savings bank. Golf Savings Bank's primary focus is the origination of single-family residential mortgage loans.
Investor Contact:
Sterling Financial Corporation
Daniel G. Byrne
EVP, Chief Financial Officer
509-458-3711
