WAIN Wainwright Bank & Trust Company (MM)

Companies chosen for environmental and financial strength BOSTON, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SustainableBusiness.com has announced the 2006 SB20: 20 Companies Changing the World (For The Better!), which includes Wainwright Bank & Trust Company (NASDAQ:WAIN) of Boston. The list is presented in The Progressive Investor newsletter, published by SustainableBusiness.com, which tracks the emerging marketplace of environmentally committed publicly traded companies. To choose the 20 companies that make up the list, twelve leading social/environmental investment analysts nominated companies; four served as judges to make the final decisions. "Our goal is to create a list that showcases public companies that, over the past year, have made substantial progress toward sustainability within their business or are leading the way with technology that can significantly contribute to a sustainable society," said Rona Fried, Ph.D., SustainableBusiness.com CEO and Editor of The Progressive Investor. "Wainwright Bank is on the list because this year it issued the first company-specific Certificate of Deposit in the U.S. -- the Equal Exchange CD. The CD provides this employee-owned pioneering Fair Trade company a line of credit which helps them expand." "We are honored to be recognized among the rapidly growing Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) community," said Jan Miller, President and CEO of Wainwright Bank Founded in 1987, Wainwright Bank is a socially progressive commercial bank with assets of $800 million and 11 branches primarily serving the neighborhoods of Greater Boston. Over 40% of the Bank's commercial loan portfolio is dedicated to local social justice initiatives including affordable housing, homeless shelters, HIV/AIDS services, community health centers and environmental protection among others. Within the last decade Wainwright has provided loan commitments of over $500 million to these types of initiatives. Steven F. Young Senior Vice President Wainwright Bank & Trust Company (NASDAQ:WAIN) telephone (617) 478-4000 fax (617) 439-4854 e-mail website http://www.wainwrightbank.com/ DATASOURCE: Wainwright Bank & Trust Company CONTACT: Steven F. Young, Senior Vice President, of Wainwright Bank & Trust Company, +1-617-478-4000, Web site: http://www.wainwrightbank.com/ http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/

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