FIRST GREEN BANK EARNS BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU SEAL OF APPROVAL

MOUNT DORA, Fla. --- First Green Bank, the Lake County Bank that will expand to downtown Orlando this year, has earned the Better Business Bureau’s official seal of approval. Kenneth LaRoe, chairman of First Green Bank, said the Better Business Bureau---known more formally as the BBB---recently notified First Green Bank that it has earned the right to display the BBB Accredited Business seal on collateral materials such as the First Green Bank web site at www.FirstGreenBank.com. “This is a real feather in our cap,” LaRoe said. “Frankly, given our philosophy and all the work we do to make Central Florida a better, richer and more fulfilling community, I would be more than a little surprised if we didn’t surpass the BBB’s criteria for good business,” LaRoe said, “and we’d take immediate steps to correct that.” First Green Bank ranks as one of the nation’s safest, banks and one of the nation’s greenest banks as well. LaRoe said First Green Bank’s customer-centered, values based business model has created a corporate culture that he hopes other businesses will imitate and improve on. “I’d like to think that every transaction expresses, in part, the sort of bedrock values of service and community for which Central Florida deserves to be proud,” LaRoe said. Apparently, the Better Business Bureau agrees.