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EASTON — During its anniversary shareholders affair Wednesday, April 27, Shore Bancshares Inc. appear the alliance of its sister banks, the Talbot Coffer and CNB, into Shore United Bank.

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The alliance will affect all 18 locations of both banks; the Talbot Coffer has locations throughout Maryland and CNB has locations in Maryland and Delaware. The alliance additionally affects Wye Cyberbanking and Trust in Easton, which is a analysis of CNB.

Debra Rich, carnality admiral and arch business and action administrator with Shore Bancshares, said the name for Wye Cyberbanking and Trust will not change, but it will absorb the new logo and branding for Shore United Bank.

Shore Bancshares Arch Controlling Administrator and Admiral Lloyd L. “Scott” Beatty Jr. addressed the alliance with the shareholders and gave the 2015 cyberbanking report.

Beatty said the Talbot Coffer and CNB accept been affiliated back 2000 and the aggregation afresh filed applications with federal and accompaniment regulators to consolidate the banks.

He said the ambition date for the alliance is July 1, but it may booty abode ancient in the third division of 2016, depending on authoritative approval.

The consolidation, which Beatty said has been in altercation for the accomplished four years, will accommodate a new name, Shore United Bank, and a new logo. He said the alliance is one about in name only, and abounding barter will alone apprehension the new branding.

The aforementioned articles and casework will be offered to barter of both banks, by the aforementioned bodies currently active by both banks, Beatty said.

He said the aggregation has been discussing the alliance with its advisers for added than three years and the alliance has not been a big secret.

“It doesn’t appear as a shock to anybody, but the time is assuredly here,” Beatty said.

He said the alliance will advance chump convenience, with 100 percent of cyberbanking action able to be done at both banks’ branches.

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“From a chump perspective, it’s basically a name change,” Beatty said. “Very basal chump disruption ... Barter will be able to airing into any annex and do more.”

Beatty said customers’ absolute checks and debit cards will still assignment afterwards the merger.

“There won’t be any disruption, from that standpoint,” Beatty said.

Beatty said that the assimilation of all accepted advisers of both banks is the best important takeaway from the affinity of the banks.

“From a association standpoint ... cipher loses their job,” Beatty said.

He said he committed to that two years ago back anon asked by his employees.

Beatty said the better acumen for the alliance is the amount of operation. He said the alliance will abate authoritative costs and actualize added efficiency.

“Having this abundant authoritative blank is actual expensive,” Beatty said. “We accept three regulators, amaranthine audits and examinations. It distracts from things that are advantageous ... it’s absolutely about creating a added able alignment and not spending a lot of money on bifold costs.”

Rich said business will be streamlined, as well.

The alliance does accommodate a new controlling team, Beatty said, which includes new Shore United Coffer CEO Pat Bilbrough; Shore United Coffer Treasurer Ed Allen; Arch Cyberbanking Administrator George Rapp will serve a bifold role as CFO of both Shore Bancshares and Shore United Bank; Arch Credit Administrator Charlie Ruch; Shore United Coffer Arch Lending Administrator Mike Cavey; and Arch Operating Administrator Donna Stevens, who will additionally serve a bifold role as COO of both Shore Bancshares and Shore United Bank.

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Beatty said the alliance provides the banks with efficiency, aegis and adherence for the banks’ audience and reduces the impacts of growing authoritative costs.

He said, because of the merger, the banks will be bottomward to two regulators and one coffer examination, bottomward from the banks’ accepted three regulators and two coffer audits.

“We anticipate that we’ve created a abundant added able organization, and we can administer that added time that was committed to acceptable all the regulators, to things that are added productive,” Beatty said.

Beatty additionally gave the company’s shareholders a cyberbanking abode for the accomplished year, adage the aggregation bigger its balance by up to 56 cents per share, up 41 percent over 2014.

Last week, Beatty said the aggregation appear balance of 19 cents per allotment for the aboriginal division of 2016, a 70 percent access from a year ago, back balance sat at 11 cents per share.

Beatty said Shore Bancshares has bigger its balance per allotment for the accomplished bristles after quarters. Rapp said the aggregation appear $7.1 actor in balance for 2015.

Beatty said, aftermost year, absolute actor allotment bigger to 16.93 percent for 2015, which for the aftermost three years accept been at 26.55 percent. In addition, Beatty said the aggregation grew its accommodation portfolios by $84 million, or 11.9 percent.

He said Shore Bancshares additionally opened a new CNB annex in Dover, Del., a accommodation assembly arrangement in Middletown, Del., and a accessory allowance arrangement in Charleston, S.C.

Finally, Beatty said Shore Bancshares advisers contributed added than 15,000 hours of advance account aural the community, and aloft added than $26,000 for the Bryan Brothers Foundation.

Shore Bancshares allowance bureau offices, which accommodate The Avon-Dixon Bureau in Easton, Freestate and Son Arrangement in Centreville, Elliot Wilson Allowance LLC in Easton and Jack Martin and Associates Inc. in Annapolis will not be afflicted by the merger.

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During the meeting, Shore Bancshares Lath of Admiral Chairman Christopher Spurry said he was blessed to abode the shareholders with “all absolute talking points.”

“Today, we still face accustomed business challenges. No best are we angry the aberrant altitude that the cyberbanking apple accomplished amid 2009 and 2014,” Spurry said.

Spurry said the accommodation to absorb the two banks was a change that artlessly evolved, so the aggregation could appear from an bread-and-butter storm, stronger and healthier.

“To succeed, we had to change. We struggled, we learned, we adapted, we bigger and we recovered from a assiduous bread-and-butter storm, the backbone and continuance of which had not been apparent before,” Spurry said.

He said the change will position the aggregation for approaching success and growth.

Also during the meeting, shareholders voted agreeably on several procedural matters, including the acceptance of the analysis committee’s arrangement of Stegman and Aggregation as Shore Bancshares absolute registered accessible accounting close for 2016; the acceptance of a nonbinding advising resolution acknowledging the advantage of Shore Bancshares called controlling officers; and the approval of Shore Bancshares Inc. 2016 Stock and Incentive Advantage Plan.

Shareholders additionally voted on the acclamation of seven bodies to the company’s lath of directors, and the lath of admiral accustomed the nominations. Shareholders voted agreeably to re-elect Frank Mason III, Christopher Spurry and John Wilson as Class I directors, with agreement that expire in 2019.

Spurry said the lath of admiral bent to access the admeasurement of the lath to 13 associates “in adjustment that the three classes of admiral are as according in cardinal as possible.”

Four new nominees were adopted by the shareholders, including Jeffrey Thompson, a Class I administrator whose appellation expires in 2019; David Fike and Clyde Kelly III, Class II admiral with agreement that expire in 2017; and R. Michael Clemmer Jr., a Class III administrator whose appellation expires in 2018.

(Editor’s Note: David Fike is the admiral of APG Media of Chesapeake and the administrator of The Star Democrat.)

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