Notes: June 23, 2014 -- Effective June 30, First Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCBT) will change its name to South State Corporation. The ticker symbol, which is currently SCBT, will change to SSB. Additionally, the subsidiary bank’s name will change from SCBT to South State Bank on June 30. _______________Jul 26th 2013 // Columbia, S.C.-- SCBT Financial Corporation (NAS: SCBT) (the Company) announced today the completion of its merger with First Financial Holdings, Inc. (NAS: FFCH). Under the terms of the merger agreement, First Financial shareholders will receive 0.4237 shares of the Company's common stock in exchange for each First Financial share they owned, or an aggregate of approximately 7,020,000 shares of the Company's common stock. First Financial's bank subsidiary, First Federal Bank has merged with SCBT, a South Carolina banking corporation and the wholly-owned banking subsidiary of the Company, and will operate as First Federal, a Division of SCBT until conversion is completed in mid-2014. SCBT will also continue to operate the existing First Financial subsidiaries First Southeast Investor Services, a wholly owned broker dealer and First Southeast 401k Fiduciaries, a registered investment advisor. As described in the merger agreement, the name of the Company will be changed from SCBT Financial Corporation to First Financial Holdings, Inc., however, the Company's common stock will continue to trade under the symbol SCBT on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.