-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, JsMjt0Fatgw3hj2v5uao8X8Oerty2bfGG4Jy4AkTWqzflcY0VsUJGy07dz2j4GX0 aCkdY7wR0Q1/NrXtH1nWpA== 0000950152-06-010407.txt : 20061226 0000950152-06-010407.hdr.sgml : 20061225 20061226172748 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950152-06-010407 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20061226 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers FILED AS OF DATE: 20061226 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20061226 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP /OH/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000708955 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021] IRS NUMBER: 311042001 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OH FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-12379 FILM NUMBER: 061299350 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 300 HIGH ST CITY: HAMILTON STATE: OH ZIP: 45011 BUSINESS PHONE: 5138674951 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 300 HIGH ST CITY: HAMILTON STATE: OH ZIP: 45011 8-K 1 l23861ae8vk.htm FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP. 8-K FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP. 8-K
 

 
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report: December 26, 2006
FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
         
Ohio   0-12379   31-1042001
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation) 		  (Commission File
Number) 		  (IRS Employer
Identification No.)
     
300 High Street
Hamilton, Ohio 		  45011
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (513) 979-5782
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
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Form 8-K    First Financial Bancorp.
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.
Anthony M. Stollings, age 52, joined First Financial Bancorp as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller effective December 20, 2006. Prior to joining First Financial, Mr. Stollings was most recently Chief Financial Officer of Midwest Financial Holdings, Inc. He previously spent 13 years at Provident Financial Group, Inc., a commercial banking and financial services company in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was most recently the Chief Accounting Officer and Controller from 2002 to 2004 and Senior Vice President and Controller from 1998 to 2002. Mr. Stollings is a CPA and has more than 25 years experience in the financial services industry.
No transactions have occurred in the last two years to which First Financial was a party in which Mr. Stollings had or is to have a direct or indirect material interest.

 

SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
           
    FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP.
 
        
 
        
 
  By:   /s/ J. Franklin Hall
 
       
 
      J. Franklin Hall
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
Date: December 26, 2006
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