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First Community Bancshares, Inc. () is a $2.61 billion bank holding company and the parent company of First Community Bank of Bluefield, Virginia in the United States. As of 2012 First Community Bank had 53 locations in Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina, and five locations operating as Peoples Community Bank in Tennessee.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First Community Bank in Bluefield, Virginia (VA), WV, NC, TN )〕 As of March 31, 2014 First Community had $2.61 billion in assets.〔 First Community Bancshares also includes GreenPoint Insurance Group Inc. of High Point, North Carolina. ==History== Princeton Bank & Trust Co. in Princeton, West Virginia began in 1874. The bank changed its name to First Community Bank of Princeton in March 1985.〔''Moody's Bank & Finance Manual'', 1989, Vol. 1, p. 1930.〕 Flat Top National Bank of Bluefield, Virginia was chartered in 1903 and consolidated with Bluefield National Bank May 2, 1932. Shareholders approved a plan to reorganize November 4, 1982, making the bank a subsidiary of Flat Top Bankshares, Inc.〔''Moody's Bank & Finance Manual'', 1989, Vol. 1, p. 2013.〕 First Community Bancshares incorporated in Delaware November 7, 1989. In a merger of equals, First Community and Flat Top joined May 9, 1990. On January 29, 1993, First Community bought People's Bank of Richmond for $250,000. On July 3, 1996, in a deal worth about $8.9 million, First Community bought Citizens Bank of Tazewell, headquartered in Tazewell, Virginia. On April 9, 1997, First Community took over Blue Ridge Bank of Sparta, North Carolina for about $24.6 million. On September 28, 1999, First Community Bank bought United First Mortgage.〔''Moody's Bank and Finance Manual'', 2000, Vol. 1, p. 1153.〕 On November 1, 2000, First Community bought Citizens Southern Bank of Beckley, West Virginia, which started in 1995 and had $65 million in assets, for $6.5 million. First Community was the third-largest banking company headquartered in Virginia, and it had 33 branches in Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina, while two-thirds of its operations were in West Virginia.〔"First Community Buys Bank," ''Charleston Gazette'', November 2, 2000, p. P3C.〕〔"Beckley and Va. banks set to merge," ''Charleston Gazette'', June 28, 2000, p. P3C.〕 In 2001, First Community had $1.29 billion in assets and a mortgage subsidiary based in Richmond. As a result of the BB&T purchase of F&M National, First Community bought branches in Clifton Forge, Emporia and Drakes Branch. This gave the bank a presence in the eastern part of the state.〔Carol Hazard, "BB&T Ups Its Profile in Virginia; F&M National Joins Carolina-Based Bank," ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'', August 11, 2001.〕 In 2003, First Community completed its $26.6 million takeover of CommonWealth Bank of Richmond, with four branches, $148.7 million in assets and $111.1 million in deposits. Along with two branches opening in June 2003 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the deal gave First Community Bank 46 branches in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.〔Carol Hazard, "Local Bank Buyout Finalized; CommonWealth Acquired in Deal," ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'', June 11, 2003.〕 First Community Bancshares president and CEO John M. Mendez said Charlottesville, Hampton Roads and possibly Roanoke were other markets in which the bank planned growth.〔Carol Hazard, "Shareholders OK CommonWealth Bank Sale," ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'', May 22, 2003.〕 With $1.6 billion in assets as of September 30, 2003, after the BB&T purchase of First Virginia Banks, First Community Bancshares was the largest Virginia-based bank holding company.〔Novelda Sommers, "Big Bank Merger Is Set for Next Year," ''Daily Press'', December 20, 2003.〕〔Carol Hazard, "First Community Coming: Bluefield-Based Operation Acquiring CommonWealth Bank of Richmond," ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'', January 29, 2003.〕 As of April 1, 2004, First Community Bank acquired People's Community Bank of Johnson City, Tennessee, which was a subsidiary of PCB Bancorp, Inc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company Overview of Peoples Community Bank (Johnson City, TN) )〕 In 2004, First Community sold its mortgage subsidiary to Access National Bank.〔"Virginia," ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'', August 20, 2004.〕 In 2006, First Community was the largest community bank in North Carolina's Piedmont Triad. The bank had three branches in Winston-Salem and planned one more branch there and one in Clemmons, with a Kernersville loan office becoming a branch. FirstCommunity had $1.95 billion in assets.〔Richard Craver, "First Community Plans to Expand Presence with Three New Branches," ''Winston-Salem Journal'', February 14, 2006.〕 In 2009, First Community completed a $10.5 million deal for TriStone Community Bank, increasing the number of Forsyth County branches from four to six. TriStone chief executive Simpson "Skip" Brown Jr. became the First Community Piedmont Triad regional president, and the bank's North Carolina headquarters moved to the former TriStone branch on Jonestown Road.〔Richard Craver, "TriStone shareholders OK a takeover," ''Winston-Salem Journal'', July 31, 2009, p. B6.〕〔Richard Craver, "First Tennessee Bank is setting its eye on Five Points intersection," ''Winston-Salem Journal'', November 24, 2009, p. A8.〕 On March 1, 2012, it was announced that First Community would purchase Richmond-based Peoples Bank of Virginia, with four branches and $286 million in assets, in a $40.6 million deal.〔"First Community to acquire Peoples Bank of Va," ''Associated Press State Wire: Virginia'', March 2, 2012.〕 On June 8, 2012, Whiteville, North Carolina-based Waccamaw Bank, which had three branches in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, failed, reopening as First Community Bank on June 11 after a deal with the FDIC. Waccamaw had operated for 14 years and had 16 branches in all, with $533.1 million in assets and $472.7 million in deposits.〔Janelle Frost, "Waccamaw Bank fails, taken over by Virginia-based bank," ''The Sun News'', June 8, 2012.〕 In 2014, First Community announced it would buy Bank of America branches with $440 million in deposits located in Abingdon, Blacksburg, Gate City, Hillsville, Pulaski and Wytheville in Virginia and Mount Airy in North Carolina.〔Richard Craver, "HomeTrust to purchase 10 BofA branches," ''Winston-Salem Journal'', June 11, 2014, p. A9.〕 On December 15, 2014, 13 branches of First Community began operating as CresCom Bank after the Carolina Financial Corp. subsidiary completed a $7 million purchase. The branches, with $230 million in deposits, included six in Brunswick County, North Carolina, four others in North Carolina, and three in South Carolina. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「First Community Bancshares」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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