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MEC elects officers

MBJ Staff — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:00:49 +0000

Tommy Dulaney, president and CEO of Structural Steel Services Inc., has been elected as the 2011-2012 Mississippi Economic Council chair. Jerry Host, president and CEO of Trustmark, was elected to serve as the 2012-13 MEC chair. Haley Fisackerly, president and CEO of Entergy Mississippi, was chosen as the 2013-14 MEC chair. Carl Chaney, president and [...]

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FROM BEAUTIFUL BOVINA TO BIG BANKING

Nash Nunnery — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:00:43 +0000

Despite being the top executive of one of Mississippi’s oldest and most successful financial institutions, Carl Chaney never forgets where he came from and the people who helped him along the way. Now the president and CEO of Hancock Holding Co. and Hancock Bank, the upbeat Chaney grew up on a cattle ranch in Bovina, [...]

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Hancock ceding La., Texas operations to Whitney in proposed merger plan

Ted Carter — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:00:40 +0000

Each bank will maintain its brand in core markets Gulfport is unlikely to see job losses with Hancock Bank’s acquisition of regional competitor Whitney National Bank, though consolidation of back office operations in Louisiana is expected to bring layoffs of some Whitney workers. Hancock president and CEO Carl Chaney said Hancock will maintain its corporate [...]

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Whitney’s disposal of sour loans added to its appeal to Hancock

Ted Carter — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:00:29 +0000

Hancock touts acquisition as earnings booster for shareholders. After more than 100 years of talking about merging with New Orleans neighbor Whitney National Bank, Gulfport’s Hancock Bank decided late 2010 might be the best time ever to strike a deal with the Louisiana institution. “The timing was impeccable,” Hancock president and CEO Carl Chaney said a [...]

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Hancock shifting HQ to N.O. with Whitney merger

Ross Reily — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:48:14 +0000

BY: Greg LaRose, Editor, City Business Hancock Bank will move its headquarters from Gulfport to New Orleans under Hancock’s merger acquisition of regional competitor Whitney National Bank in a $1.5 billion stock-for-stock transaction announced Wednesday. Hancock CEO Carl Chaney said that although the headquarters of the combined companies will be located in New Orleans, much [...]

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MEC elects new board officers

MBJ Staff — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:00:47 +0000

Jack Reed Jr., mayor of Tupelo, has been elected as the 2010-2011 chair of the Mississippi Economic Council – The State Chamber of Commerce. Reed, a Tupelo native, was elected mayor in 2009. He is also president of R.W. Reed Company, the parent company of Reed’s Department Store. His father, Jack Reed Sr., served as [...]

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