TriCo Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBK) and North Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:NOVB) are pleased to announce that their respective shareholders have voted overwhelmingly to approve the companies’ Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization previously announced on January 21, 2014. Completion of the merger, which provides for North Valley to merge into TriCo, is expected in the third quarter of 2014, pending regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

About TriCo Bancshares and Tri Counties Bank

TriCo Bancshares and its subsidiary, Tri Counties Bank, are headquartered in Chico, California. Tri Counties Bank has a 39-year history in the banking industry. It operates 41 traditional branch locations and 19 in-store branch locations in 23 California counties. Tri Counties Bank offers financial services and provides a diversified line of products and services to consumers and businesses, which include demand, savings and time deposits, consumer finance, online banking, mortgage lending, and commercial banking throughout its market area. It operates a network of 66 ATMs and an automated Customer Service Department, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Brokerage services are provided by the Bank’s investment services affiliate, Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. For further information please visit the Tri Counties Bank web site at http://www.tricountiesbank.com.

About North Valley Bancorp

North Valley Bancorp is a bank holding company headquartered in Redding, California. Its subsidiary, North Valley Bank (“NVB”), operates twenty-two commercial banking offices in Shasta, Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Yolo, Sonoma, Placer and Trinity Counties in Northern California, including two in- store supermarket branches and six Business Banking Centers. North Valley Bancorp, through NVB, offers a wide range of consumer and business banking deposit products and services including internet banking and cash management services. In addition to these depository services, NVB engages in a full complement of lending activities including consumer, commercial and real estate loans. Additionally, NVB has SBA Preferred Lender status and provides investment services to its customers. Visit the Company's website address at www.novb.com for more information.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains certain forward-looking information about TriCo and North Valley and the combined company after the close of the merger that is intended to be covered by the safe harbor for “forward-looking statements” provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by words such as “may,” “hope,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” “could,” “future” or the negative of those terms or other words of similar meaning. You should carefully read forward-looking statements, including statements that contain these words, because they discuss the future expectations or state other “forward-looking” information about TriCo, North Valley and the combined company. Such statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond the control of TriCo, North Valley and the combined company. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and we assume no duty to update such statements. In addition to factors previously disclosed in reports filed by TriCo and North Valley with the SEC, risks and uncertainties for each institution and the combined institution include, but are not limited to: the possibility that any of the anticipated benefits of the proposed merger will not be realized or will not be realized within the expected time period; the risk that integration of North Valley’s operations with those of TriCo will be materially delayed or will be more costly or difficult than expected; the inability to close the merger in a timely manner; diversion of management’s attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities; the failure to satisfy other conditions to completion of the Merger, including receipt of required regulatory and other approvals; the failure of the proposed Merger to close for any other reason; the risk that integration of North Valley’s operations with those of TriCo will be materially delayed or will be more costly or difficult than expected; the challenges of integrating and retaining key employees; the effect of the announcement of the merger on TriCo’s, North Valley’s or the combined company’s respective customer relationships and operating results; the possibility that the merger may be more expensive to complete than anticipated, including as a result of unexpected factors or events; and general competitive, economic, political and market conditions and fluctuations.

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TriCo BancsharesRichard P. Smith, 530-898-0300President & CEO

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