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Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Financials
Industry
Banking
Headquarters
United States of America US
Employees
946
IPO date
Mar 3, 1992

First Financial Corp is a bank holding company whose main business is First Financial Bank, a regional community bank. It takes deposits from households, businesses, and local governments, then uses those funds to make loans such as commercial, real estate, agricultural, and consumer loans. It also earns fee income from services like treasury management, trust and wealth-related services, and deposit account activity.

Its main customers are small and midsize businesses, local professionals, farmers, families, and municipal clients in the communities it serves. The bank makes money mostly from the spread between the interest it pays on deposits and the interest it earns on loans and other investments, plus service charges and other banking fees. That makes it a straightforward relationship-based lender, not a product manufacturer or a national consumer brand.

What sets the business apart is its role as a local lender and financial partner in markets where personal relationships, credit judgment, and steady deposit funding matter. It is built around branch banking and business banking rather than high-volume trading or complex capital markets activity. That gives it a simple model: gather deposits, lend prudently, and provide everyday banking services to nearby customers.

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Address
One First Financial Plaza
Terre Haute, Indiana
United States of America

Business Segments

Banking

This is the company’s main bank business. It takes deposits, makes commercial and consumer loans, issues cards, and provides everyday banking services through its branch and digital channels.

Customers and revenue model

Wealth Management

This business helps customers manage money through trust, investment, retirement, estate, and fiduciary services.

Customers and revenue model

Management

Mr. Norman L. Lowery J.D.

Executive Chairman

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Mr. Norman D. Lowery

President, CEO & Director

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Mr. Rodger A. McHargue

Senior VP, Secretary, Treasurer & CFO

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Mr. Mark A. Franklin

Senior VP & Chief Lending Officer

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Mr. Bob Renock

Chief Marketing Officer

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Mr. Terry Tevlin

Vice President of Marketing

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Stephen P. Panagouleas

Senior VP & Chief Credit Officer

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