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For Immediate Release
Contact:
Jan Dailey, SVP, Marketing Manager
972-391-6191, jan.dailey@tnbcard.com
Kristine Tanzillo, Dux Public Relations
972-889-9577, kristine@duxpr.com
CARD USERS, CREDIT UNION
EMPLOYEES ARE WINNERS
IN TNB CARD SERVICES' FIRST SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTION
DALLAS
– April 24, 2006 – An Alabama credit card user
won a 42-inch high-definition plasma television set
and a Phoenix loan officer won a four-day cruise in
TNB Card Services’ first sweepstakes for the
company’s agent issuing credit union clients and
their cardholders.
Winners
of the sweepstakes were announced today. The
contests were held in November and December 2005.
The “Give Me Five” sweepstakes was for
cardholders, and the “Cruise for Cards” was for
personnel at the credit unions where TNB owns and
manages the credit card portfolio.
Margaret
Steincamp, a retired educator from Huntsville,
Alabama, was the grand prize winner of the “Give
Me Five” contest, winning the HDTV television,
with a built-in DVD player and recorder.
Brandi King, a loan officer at Banner Federal
Credit Union in Phoenix, won the cruise.
Steincamp,
who was a school principal and English and math
teacher before she retired, says she isn’t even
sure what it was she purchased with her North
Alabama Educators Credit Union MasterCard, issued by
TNB that qualified her for the sweepstakes. “I was
surprised to get a call saying I won a large screen
TV just for using my MasterCard,” said Steincamp.
“My mother, who lives with me and my husband, is
more excited than anyone. She can’t wait to watch
the Atlanta Braves, her favorite baseball team, on
the large screen.”
King,
winner of the “Cruise for Cards” contest, has
worked at Banner Federal Credit Union for six years.
More
than 6,500 entries, qualified for the “Give Me
Five” promotion. In addition to the grand prize,
10 cardholders from credit unions in Texas,
Wisconsin, California, and Missouri received $100
Best Buy® gift cards.
Employees
from 33 of TNB’s agent credit union clients
actively participated in the “Cruise for Cards”
promotion. For each new account generated from
applications they provided, credit union
employees’ names earned another entry in the
contest drawing. The employees also won prizes based
on the number of opened card accounts during the
sweepstakes. In all, “Cruise for Cards”
generated 68 percent more new accounts, compared
with the same two months of 2004.
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About TNB Card Services
TNB Card Services, owned and directed by credit
unions since 1976, provides electronic payments
processing, as well as an agent issuing solution for
credit unions nationwide. Serving more than 450
financial institutions and managing more than 1.6
million cards, Dallas-based TNB enables credit
unions to enhance member loyalty through credit
union-branded card products. For more information
about TNB, go to www.tnbcard.com or call
1-888-742-0260.
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