LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Feb. 8, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Flushing Financial Corporation (the "Company") (Nasdaq:FFIC), the parent holding company for Flushing Savings Bank, FSB, announced that John R. Buran, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, will be attending the Sterne Agee 2008 Bank & Thrift Symposium on Monday and Tuesday, February 11 and 12, 2008.
Mr. Buran will be participating in panel discussions, and will make presentations to individual institutional investors. He will make the presentations at the Symposium in Orlando, Florida.
WHO Flushing Financial Corporation is the holding company
for Flushing Savings Bank, FSB, a federally chartered
stock savings bank insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The Bank conducts its
business through fourteen banking offices located in
Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Nassau County, and its
internet banking division, "iGObanking.com(tm)".
WHAT Individual presentations and panel discussions at the
Sterne Agee 2008 Bank & Thrift Symposium.
WHEN/WHERE February 11 and 12, 2008 at the Rosen Shingle Creek in
Orlando, Florida.
PRESENTATION The presentations will focus on the Company's
performance and its strategic operating objectives. The
slides used for these presentations will be available
on the Company's website, www.flushingsavings.com, on
Monday, February 11, 2008, and will remain available
through February 29, 2008.
RECENT NEWS * January 30, 2008 - Flushing Financial Corporation
Announces that Patricia Mezeul Joins Flushing
Commercial Bank as Senior Vice President, Director of
Government Banking.
* January 28, 2008 - Flushing Financial Corporation
Reports Fourth Quarter EPS of $0.22 - Core EPS of
$0.30; Full Year EPS of $1.02 - Core EPS of $1.07
* January 25, 2008 - iGObanking.com, a Division of
Flushing Savings Bank, Reached $133 million in Total
Deposits as of December 31, 2007.
* January 23, 2008 - Flushing Financial Corporation to
Record Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Charge in
Fourth Quarter.
Additional information on Flushing Financial Corporation may be obtained by visiting the Company's web site at http://www.flushingsavings.com.
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