Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001518715-25-000085
Chunk: 34

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 425
Chunk 34
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 does as well. Thank you. I just echo what I said earlier. Thank you for being here. Thank you. C.J. Johnson Thanks for the good questions. We'll do it again, maybe in June or July. I'd love to come back up and do the exact same thing. Keep asking questions. I know there'll be more as we go through the integration process. Please don't hesitate to raise your hand and voice concerns that you have through the integration workstreams. That'll be very thoughtfully communicated with everybody and we will work very diligently to get a lot of the HR related questions out in an easy to digest formula. So thank you for hospitality. I'm very excited for the merger and appreciate your time.

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