Contact Information: For further information contact: Michael J. Cushman President & Chief Executive Officer (530) 226-2900 Fax: (530) 221-4877 or Kevin R. Watson EVP & Chief Financial Officer (530) 226-2900 Fax: (530) 221-4877
North Valley Bancorp to Present at the Sandler O'Neill West Coast Financial Services Conference
| Source: North Valley Bancorp
REDDING, CA--(Marketwire - February 26, 2009) - North Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ : NOVB ), a bank
holding company with $880 million in assets, today announced that Michael
J. Cushman, President and Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a
bank panel discussion at the 2009 West Coast Financial Services Conference
sponsored by Sandler O'Neill & Partners, LP, on March 3, 2009, in San
Francisco, California. The panel discussion is scheduled to begin at 9:00
a.m. PST, in San Francisco, California.
The conference will be accessible via a live and archived web cast through
Sandler O'Neill's website at www.sandleroneill.com. Viewers should go to
the sandleroneill.com website a few minutes prior to the start of the
presentation time in order to register. Slides included in Mr. Cushman's
investor package will be accessible through the website and will be filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on a Form 8-K Current Report
prior to the presentation. The archived web cast will be available for
sixty (60) days after the presentation, beginning on March 4, 2009. The
conference will also be available via audio conference by dialing
(800) 638-5495 and entering the Passcode 'Session 1.'
North Valley Bancorp is a bank holding company headquartered in Redding,
California. Its subsidiary, North Valley Bank ("NVB"), operates twenty-six
commercial banking offices in Shasta, Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Yolo,
Solano, Sonoma, Placer and Trinity Counties in Northern California,
including two in-store supermarket branches and seven Business Banking
Centers, and a loan production office in Vacaville, CA. North Valley
Bancorp, through NVB, offers a wide range of consumer and business banking
deposit products and services including internet banking and cash
management services. In addition to these depository services, NVB engages
in a full complement of lending activities including consumer, commercial
and real estate loans. Additionally, NVB has SBA Preferred Lender status
and provides investment services to its customers. Visit the Company's
website address at www.novb.com for more information.
Cautionary Statement: This release contains certain
forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated
herein. Management's assumptions and projections are based on their
anticipation of future events and actual performance may differ materially
from those projected. Risks and uncertainties which could impact future
financial performance include, among others, (a) competitive pressures in
the banking industry; (b) changes in the interest rate environment; (c)
general economic conditions, either nationally, regionally or locally,
including fluctuations in real estate values; (d) changes in the regulatory
environment; (e) changes in business conditions or the securities markets
and inflation; (f) possible shortages of gas and electricity at utility
companies operating in the State of California, and (g) the effects of
terrorism, including the events of September 11, 2001, and thereafter, and
the conduct of the war on terrorism by the United States and its allies.
Therefore, the information set forth herein, together with other
information contained in the periodic reports filed by the Company with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, should be carefully considered when
evaluating the business prospects of the Company. North Valley Bancorp
undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained
in this release, except as required by law.