Nicholas Financial Opens Two New Branches

Here’s the latest press release:

Nicholas Financial, Inc. today announced the opening of two (2) new branch offices located in St. Louis, Missouri and Villa Park, IL, a Chicago area suburb. The new offices are Nicholas Financial’s first entries in both major metropolitan areas and continues the Company’s planned expansion of its branch office network, which now includes, fifty-six (56) offices in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Illinois and Missouri.

Nicholas employees have been working to develop business in each area for several months prior to the opening of the new locations. Each of the offices is a full-service lending and collection facility. Nicholas Financial acquires and services automobile and light truck installment sales finance contracts that it purchases from new and used car dealers.

According to Douglas Marohn, Senior Vice President, “We are reaping rewards from the performance of our branch business model in the Midwest. We intend to add additional branches in our new Missouri and Illinois markets as soon as they can be developed. Our success in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana has convinced us that the opportunity for successful growth in these markets is excellent.”

NICK’s business is traditionally heavily weighted towards Florida. The company is somewhat limited in its ability to expand since state laws vary on permissible chargeable interest.

Posted by on April 5th, 2011 at 11:05 am


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