Tom Hawker, CEO of Capital Corp of the West,
Rings The NASDAQ Stock Market Closeing Bell

Thursday, August 3, 2006
at NASDAQ's MarketSite
in New York City.

Capital Corp of the West
[CCOW]

Tom Hawker, CEO of Capital Corp of the West (CCOW) presides over the closing bell to celebrate its ten year listing anniversary on the NASDAQ.

Capital Corp of the West, a bank holding company established November 1, 1995, is the parent company of County Bank, which has more than 28 years of service as "Northern California's Community Bank." Currently County Bank has twenty-four branch offices serving the counties of Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne. As of the latest FDIC data, County Bank has 6.5% market share in the six Central California counties in which it has significant retail branches. This ranks County Bank fifth out of thirty-seven banking institutions in this market area.

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