Company: FRME
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-216443
Chunk: 105

Company: FIRST MERCHANTS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: 425
Chunk 105
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 A. Padgett |
| Martin A. Padgett     |

[ Signature page to Voting Agreement]

| /s/ Steven R. Stemler |
| Steven R. Stemler     |

[ Signature page to Voting Agreement]

| /s/ Douglas A. York |
| Douglas A. York     |

[ Signature page to Voting Agreement]

| /s/ Tony A. Schoen |
| Tony A. Schoen     |

[ Signature page to Voting Agreement]

| /s/ Jackie R. Journell |
| Jackie R. Journell     |

[ Signature page to Voting Agreement]

EXHIBIT A LISTING OF SHARES *

| Name                  |     | Number of Shares |           |
| John E. Colin         |     |                  |     9,785 |
| Frank N. Czeschin     |     |                  |    59,291 |
| L. Chris Fordyce      |     |                  |    41,593 |
| Troy D. Hanke         |     |                  |     3,500 |
| John P. Lawson, Jr.   |     |                  |    59,360 |
| Pamela Bennett-Martin |     |                  |    30,644 |
| Larry W. Myers        |     |                  |   400,007 |
| Martin A. Padgett     |     |                  |    12,293 |
| Steven R. Stemler     |     |                  |    33,440 |
| Douglas A. York       |     |                  |   123,683 |
| Tony A. Schoen        |     |                  |   173,590 |
| Jackie R. Journell    |     |                  |    55,268 |
| TOTAL                 |     |                  | 1,002,454 |

| * | Excludes shares underlying unexercised stock options. |

Exhibit 99.1

N / E / W / S R / E / L / E / A / S / E

September 25, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information, contact:

First Merchants Corporation

Nicole M. Weaver, First Vice President and Director of Corporate Administration

765-521-7619

First Savings Financial
Group, Inc.

Larry W. Myers, President and Chief Executive Officer

(812) 283-0724

SOURCE: First Merchants
Corporation, Muncie, Indiana and First Savings Financial Group, Inc