AMFI Amcore Financial (MM)

AMCORE Financial Opens Oak Brook Office OAK BROOK, Ill., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMCORE Financial, Inc. announces the opening of its Oak Brook office at 2803 Butterfield Road. The new location will offer primarily commercial services and will include a staff of seasoned professionals that collectively bring over 50 years of commercial banking experience to the Oak Brook area. "We have found that both business customers and consumers in the Chicago suburbs are looking for the products and services a mid-size bank like AMCORE has to offer," said Kenneth E. Edge, chairman, president and CEO of AMCORE. AMCORE's strategy is to expand its presence from the Chicago suburbs to Madison, WI, in markets that have a high concentration of mid-size businesses and strong demographics for banking and investment products. Fred Alford, senior vice president and market president for the Oak Brook office, said mid- size businesses are looking for personal service and a variety of cash management and credit services. "Businesses of this size want a strong relationship with their banker and are looking for financial solutions," he said. "Our strength is having a broad range of products to offer and our bankers know the market." The 2,500 square foot Oak Brook office has a staff of five including Christopher J. McDermott, senior vice president and commercial team leader; commercial relationship managers Robert L. Horvath, vice president and Adrienne A. Wolfgram, vice president; and commercial sales assistants JoAnne Finocchiaro and Jean M. Harlow. AMCORE Financial, Inc. is a leading Midwestern bank that is increasing its presence in some of the Midwest's fastest growing markets. Headquartered in Northern Illinois, the company has banking assets of $4.4 billion and investment assets under administration of $4.4 billion with 62 locations in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. AMCORE provides a full range of consumer and commercial banking services, a variety of mortgage lending products and investment services including trust, brokerage, capital management, mutual fund administration, employee benefit plan record keeping and is the investment advisor for the Vintage family of mutual funds. AMCORE common stock is listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol "AMFI." Further information about AMCORE Financial, Inc. can be found at the company's website at http://www.amcore.com/ and at http://www.vintagefunds.com/ . DATASOURCE: AMCORE Financial, Inc. CONTACT: Katherine Taylor of AMCORE Financial, Inc., +1-815-961-7164 Web site: http://www.vintagefunds.com/ http://www.amcore.com/

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