FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January
12, 2010
Hancock
Bank to observe Martin Luther King Day on January 18
GULFPORT, Miss. (January 12, 2010) - Hancock Bank's 180-plus banking
and financial services offices in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama,
and Florida - including all former Peoples First Community Bank
branches in Panhandle and Central Florida - will not open on Monday,
January 18, 2010, in observance of the Martin Luther King Day federal
holiday.
All
Hancock Bank locations will reopen for regular business hours on
Tuesday, January 19, 2010.
Customers
can access the conveniences of 24-hour, seven-days-a-week financial
services through e-banking at www.hancockbank.com
and more than 160 ATMs across the company's Gulf South I-10 corridor
markets.
Founded
in 1899, Hancock Bank is ranked among America's strongest, safest,
most trustworthy Top 10 Best Banks. Bank subsidiaries include Hancock
Investment Services, Inc., Hancock Insurance Agency and its divisions
of Ross King Walker and J. Everett Eaves, and Harrison Finance Company.
Hancock Holding Company (NASDAQ: HBHC), the parent company of Hancock
Bank, has assets of approximately $8.7 billion.
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For More Information
R. Paul Maxwell, VP & Corporate Communications Manager
228.563.7953 or paul_maxwell@hancockbank.com
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