PRESS RELEASE – October 3, 2008
PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP. DECLARES THIRD QUARTER DIVIDEND
A regular quarterly dividend of $0.19 (nineteen cents) per share was declared on October 1, 2008. The dividend will be paid November 14, 2008 to shareholders of record as of October 31, 2008.
Peoples Financial Services Corp., Hallstead Pennsylvania, is the parent company of Peoples National Bank, an independent community bank with ten community offices. The community office locations are: Hallstead, Hop Bottom, Susquehanna, and Montrose, in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania; Nicholson, Tunkhannock and Meshoppen, in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania; Glenburn in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; and Conklin, Deposit, and Binghamton, in Broome County, New York, Peoples Advisors, LLC, a member-managed limited liability company for the purpose of providing investment advisory services to the general public, and Peoples Financial Capital Corporation which main activities are the maintenance and management of intangible investments and the collection and distribution of the income from such investments.
Except for the historical information, this press release may contain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve risks and uncertainties in the banking industry and overall economy. Such risks and uncertainties are detailed in the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
