Investors Bancorp, Inc. Announces Completion of the Acquisition of 6 New Jersey Branches of Banco Popular North America

SHORT HILLS, N.J., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Investors Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISBC) (the "Company"), the holding company for Investors Savings Bank (the "Bank"), announced today it has completed the acquisition of six New Jersey bank branches and approximately $227.0 million of deposits from Banco Popular North America. The Company did not purchase any loans as part of the transaction.

As the Company previously disclosed, it is consolidating Banco Popular's East Orange, New Jersey branch with Investors' existing East Orange branch office. The remaining five acquired branches will be open for business as branches of Investors Savings Bank on Monday, October 19, 2009.

"We are pleased to welcome our new customers and look forward to providing the same level of quality service these customers were accustomed to receiving from Banco Popular," said Domenick A. Cama, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Investors Savings Bank.

About the Company

Investors Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Investors Savings Bank, which operates from its corporate headquarters in Short Hills, New Jersey, and, including the newly acquired branches, 63 branch offices located in Essex, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Union and Warren Counties, New Jersey.

Forward Looking Statements

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The Company wishes to caution readers not to place undue reliance on any such forward looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company wishes to advise readers that the factors listed above could affect the Company's financial performance and could cause the Company's actual results for future periods to differ materially from any opinions or statements expressed with respect to future periods in any current statements. The Company does not undertake and specifically declines any obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions, which may be made to any forward looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events.

SOURCE Investors Bancorp, Inc.