Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-030716
Chunk: 17

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 17
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 householding notification from your broker. Please contact your broker directly if you have any questions or require additional copies of this proxy statement. The broker will arrange for delivery of a separate copy of this proxy statement promptly 
 upon your written or oral request. You may decide at any time to revoke your decision to household, and thereby receive multiple copies.                                                                                                                 |

| Q: | Who can answer my questions? |

| A: | If you have questions about the Merger or desire additional copies of this proxy statement/prospectus or                                                                                    
 additional proxy cards, please contact Alliance Advisors, LLC, which is acting as the proxy solicitor for Penns Woods in connection with the Merger, or the Company at the addresses below: |

Alliance Advisors, LLC 200 Broadacres Drive, 3 rdFloor Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003 Phone: (833) 207-7606 Email: PWOD@allianceadvisors.com Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc. Attention: Investor Relations 300 Market Street P.O. Box 967 Williamsport, Pennsylvania 17703-0967 Phone: (570) 322-1111 7

SUMMARY

This summary highlights selected information from this proxy statement/prospectus. It does not contain all of the information that may be important to you. You should read carefully this entire document, its Annexes, and all other documents to which this proxy statement/prospectus refers before you decide how to vote. In addition, we incorporate by reference important business and financial information about Northwest and Penns Woods into this document. For a description of this information, See “INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE” on page 89. You may obtain the information incorporated by reference into this document without charge by following the instructions in the section entitled “WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION” in the forepart of this document. Each item in this summary includes a page reference, where applicable, directing you to a more complete description of that item.

The Companies

Northwest Bancshares, Inc.

Northwest
Bancshares, Inc.

3 Easton Oval Street, Suite 500

Columbus, Ohio 43219

Phone:
(814) 726-2140

Northwest Bancshares, Inc. (“Northwest”) is a bank holding company
registered under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (“BHCA”), and subject to inspection of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal