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EXHIBIT 99.1
Press Release dated January 11, 2001
For Information Contact
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At Greater Bay Bancorp: At Financial Relations Board:
David L. Kalkbrenner Christina Carrabino (general information)
President and CEO James Hoyne (analyst contact)
(650) 614-5767 Dawn Swidorski (media)
Steven C. Smith (415) 986-1591
RVP, CAO and CFO
(650) 813-8222
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GREATER BAY BANCORP SCHEDULES FOURTH QUARTER
AND YEAR END EARNINGS RELEASE AND CONFERENCE CALL
PALO ALTO, CA, January 11, 2001 -- Greater Bay Bancorp (Nasdaq: GBBK), a
financial services holding company, announced today that it will broadcast its
fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2000 earnings conference call live
via the Internet on Wednesday, January 17, 2001.
A press release outlining the fourth quarter and year 2000 financial results
will be distributed prior to the call, at 5:45 am PST on January 17, 2001. The
conference call will begin at 8:00 am PST on January 17, 2001 and will last for
approximately one hour.
Investors have the opportunity to listen to the conference call live on the
Internet at http://www.vcall.com. Investors should go to the Vcall web site 15
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minutes prior to the start of the call to register. It may be necessary to
download audio software to hear the conference call. To do so investors should
click on the Real Player icon and follow directions from there. A replay of the
conference call will be available through Vcall for 30 days.
Greater Bay Bancorp's corporate press releases are available on the Company's
Web site at http://www.gbbk.com.
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Greater Bay Bancorp through its ten subsidiary banks, Bank of Petaluma, Bank of
Santa Clara, Bay Area Bank, Bay Bank of Commerce, Coast Commercial Bank,
Cupertino National Bank, Golden Gate Bank, Mid-Peninsula Bank, Mt. Diablo
National Bank, and Peninsula Bank of Commerce, along with its operating
divisions serves clients throughout Silicon Valley, San Francisco, the San
Francisco Peninsula, the East Bay Region, the North Bay Region and the Coastal
Region.
Safe Harbor
This document may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those projected. For a discussion of factors that could cause actual results to
differ, please see the publicly available Securities and Exchange Commission
filings of Greater Bay Bancorp, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 1999, and particularly the discussion of risk factors
within such documents.
For investor information on Greater Bay Bancorp at no charge, call our automated
shareholder information line at 1-800-PRO-INFO (1-800-776-4636) and enter code
GBBK. For international access, dial 1-201-432-6555.
