News Release: 11/02/2015

CITIZENS TRI-COUNTY BANK POISED FOR MORE GROWTH

Citizens Tri-County Bank, headquartered in Dunlap, TN, recently announced the plan to acquire the Smartt Station branch of the Berkshire Bank by the end of 2015. This will become the fourth location of the Citizens Tri-County Bank (CTCB) located at 101 E Main St. in downtown McMinnville. Local VP & Branch Manager Shane Brock advises that with 18 full service offices, five drive thru offices, 26 ATM’S. With $650 million in managed assets, CTCB is the largest “community bank” in our area. CTCB is located in 7 other surrounding counties for your banking convenience & they are Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Marion, Hamilton (Signal Mountain & Soddy Daisy), Grundy, Van Buren, and Coffee (Tullahoma). The bank was formed in 1972 and has a long history of branch growth and acquisition. CTCB has 252 employees system wide.
 

Citizens Tri-County Bank started in McMinnville ten years ago by acquiring Cumberland Bank. Locations of the local branch are in the shopping plaza near the 70S/56 intersection and at 900 Beersheba Hwy @ Mt. Leo. Currently CTCB McMinnville has twelve employees and we welcome the addition of six more at the new location, which will make a total of eighteen employees. Listed below are the names of all the McMinnville employees:
 

Shane Brock-VP & Branch Manager Dana Green-AVP & Branch Manager

Cindy King-Assistant Branch Manager Shannon Dionne Fowler

Wilma Gooch Shonda Dunn

Carla Savage Angela Wilson

Arlene Majors Shelby Young

Sherry Griffith LeeAnn Abdo

Kendra Tate

Samantha Brock

Jason Pitts

April Fults

Kelly Jones

Kaye Worzek

Michelle King

Shane Brock was born and raised in McMinnville and has been the branch manager seven of the ten years CTCB has been in McMinnville. Shane is an alumnus of Motlow-McMinnville and earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Trevecca in Nashville in Management & Human Resources. Shane and the CTCB staff are involved in many community efforts & events. CTCB makes available office space for Families in Crisis on the second floor of the downtown branch building. CTCB is also an enthusiastic supporter of Main Street McMinnville, proud sponsors of The Park Theatre located next door to the bank, heavily involved in RELAY FOR LIFE and CTCB is a Partner in Education with Irving College along with being proud supporters of the Warren County Pioneers. Some of the bank employees are currently and have in times past served on Leadership and Community Boards and Committees.

Dana Green is currently Assistant Vice President and Branch Manager of the Smart Station branch of Berkshire Bank and has been at this location for 10 years. She was born and raised in McMinnville and has two children. Dana is an Alumnus of Motlow-McMinnville and earned her Associates Degree in Business with an emphasis in Accounting. She is an avid gardener and especially enjoys her roses. Some of her special community interests include the Warren County Meals on Wheels Program where she currently serves on the Board and also on the Budget Committee. Dana also helps deliver meals to the Warren County residents.

The corporate website for CTCB is www.citizenstricounty.com which accesses a number of their services including on-line banking, applications for VISA & MasterCard for consumers or businesses, mortgage applications, etc. CTCB also has a strong presence on social media. CTCB is large enough to have their own mortgage loan program, which allows them the potential to offer 20 or 30 year fixed rate loans. This also allows them the ability to offer loans outside Warren County.

Strengths of CTCB:

1. As a functioning Community Bank CTCB stands ready to take care of any kind of Banking need the consumer may have whether it’s personal accounts, business accounts or loans.

2. They offer one stop banking with fast decisions on credit locally. They are an in-state bank.

3. This is an employee driven company as emphasized by President & CEO John Barker.

4. They offer exceptional customer service, which they attribute to all the employees at the bank. Their focus is being a bank that takes care of it’s customers while also caring & being active in the community.

5. CTCB offers a broad assortment of banking services which include a relatively large auto loan portfolio, small business loans, lines of credit for commercial businesses, small equipment loans, large industrial customers, home construction loans, mortgages, and refinancing all the above. They offer Internet banking, various checking & savings accounts. Debit cards printed in house & on the spot at their locations. They also Offer Senior Checking and Senior Golden Travel Club accounts with great Trips put together every year by the Golden Club Director. The local Warren County office is active with the nursery industry as well as agricultural.

6. We are “THE ONLY COMMUNITY BANK YOU WILL EVER NEED.”
Local advertising for the McMinnville office has included local radio ads, ads in the Southern Standard, billboard ads, Hands on Community events, etc. But, their favorite is “word of mouth.”

BRAC Congratulates Citizens Tri-County Bank for being dedicated to growth within Warren County and the progress in Downtown McMinnville. The acquisition of the Berkshire Bank branch in Smartt Station is clearly a commitment to growth thereof.