Claude Davis, CEO of First Financial,
Rings The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

Thursday, June 1, 2006
at NASDAQ's MarketSite
in New York City.

First Financial [FFBC]

Claude Davis, CEO of First Financial (Nasdaq: FFBC) presides over the opening bell.

Founded in 1863, with headquarters in Hamilton, Ohio, First Financial is a $3.5 billion publicly owned bank holding company with over 4,000 shareholders. FFBC's banking business is consolidated as one company, First Financial Bank, N.A., with banking centers in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana. In different markets, the bank operates under the brands First Financial Bank, Community First Bank & Trust and Sand Ridge Bank. Their First Financial Wealth Resource Group, with $2.5 billion under management, aggressively pursues growth opportunities in investment management, traditional trusts, private banking and insurance.

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