Home BancShares, Inc. Announces First Quarter Earnings Release Date and Conference Call


CONWAY, Ark., March 19, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Home BancShares, Inc. (Nasdaq:HOMB) today announced it expects to release First Quarter 2008 earnings prior to the market opening on Thursday, April 17, 2008. Following this release, management will conduct a conference call to review this information at 1:00 p.m. CT (2:00 ET) on Thursday, April 17, 2008.

Interested parties can listen to this call by calling 1-800-860-2442 and asking for the Home BancShares conference call. A replay of the call will be available by calling 1-877-344-7529, Passcode: 417469, which will be available until April 24, 2008 at 10:59 p.m. CT. Internet access to the call will be available live or in recorded version on the Company's website at www.homebancshares.com.

Home BancShares, Inc. is a financial holding company, headquartered in Conway, Arkansas, with six wholly owned bank subsidiaries that provide a broad range of commercial and retail banking and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals and municipalities. Three of the bank subsidiaries are located in the central Arkansas market area, a fourth serves central and southern Arkansas, a fifth serves Stone County in north central Arkansas, and a sixth serves the Florida Keys and southwestern Florida. The Company's common stock is traded through the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "HOMB".



            

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