Community Bank recently celebrated its 100th birthday. All of that history might explain why so much of the organization’s future plans center around its past. The management team at Community Bank believes the strategy that helped the bank not only survive but grow over the last 100 years is a good model to follow in the future. That model includes recruiting topflight bank talent, staying in stride with emerging financial technologies, keeping a strong focus on local customer service delivery, maintaining credit quality throughout the system, and pursuing a sound expansion strategy into emerging growth markets across the South.

There are plenty of success stories in American business and in the banking industry in particular, but it is hard to find a success story with more fascinating chapters than the ones written by Community Bank.