Article: State Farm Bank-Product Sales Force Growing Fast.(State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

State Farm Insurance Cos. recently finished training agents to sell banking products in three more states -- New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada -- and initiated training in six others.

Of State Farm's 477 agents in the three states, 448 have been trained to sell home equity loans, auto loans and leases, and savings and checking accounts. The company is now offering the same training, which is voluntary, to 1,568 agents in Alabama, Colorado, Indiana, Mississippi, Utah, and Wyoming.

Earlier, about 1,300 had been trained in Illinois and Missouri.

The Bloomington, Ill., insurance giant, whose Internet bank has been operating since March, expects to ...

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