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PremierWest names Georges St. Laurent to board

PremierWest Bancorp names business executive Georges St. Laurent to board

  • On 12:40 pm EDT, Thursday September 10, 2009

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- PremierWest Bancorp and PremierWest Bank on Thursday said it named business executive Georges St. Laurent to its board

St. Laurent is former chairman, CEO and controlling shareholder of Western Bank, which was acquired by Washington Mutual. He was also a founding director of medical product company Celera Corp., and former CEO of GS Containers, before the maker of Sterno was sold to Colgate Palmolive.

Shares of PremierWest added 6 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $2.85 in afternoon trading.

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