Growing with growers since 1946
  • January 15th 2013 Issue
  • Story by Geraldine Warner
  • End of the line

    Growers Credit Corporation will shut its doors after returning its grower-owners most of their equity.

    Growers Credit Corporation board members and staff leave their last board meeting. Pictured are (from left) Bob Petersen of Manson, Gary Roberts of Oroville, former manager Steve Joy, office manager Nancy Baker, Roger Hodgson of Omak, Gene Handley of East Wenatchee, and Floyd Stutzman of Wenatchee. Board members of the Growers Credit Corporation, a grower-owned lending cooperative in Washington State, met for the last time in December at the small house in a residential area of Wenatchee that has served as their humble office for the past decade. Growers Credit, once a thriving concern with a loan portfolio of $24 […]

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