Article: AMCORE Financial, Inc. Poised to Enter Wisconsin Market, Signs Letter of Intent with Country Bank Shares Corporation Based in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin

ROCKFORD, Ill., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- AMCORE Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMFI), announced today that it has entered into a letter of intent for the acquisition of Country Bank Shares Corporation, based in Mount Horeb, Wis. Upon completion of the merger, AMCORE will join the ranks of interstate banking companies.

Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Country Bank Shares will receive 4.3267 shares of AMCORE common stock for each share of the Wisconsin company. CBSC currently has approximately 440,000 shares outstanding.

CBSC has nine locations and assets of $285 million. AMCORE has 38 locations and assets of $2.76 billion. AMCORE will ...

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