Magazine : Archives : 2nd Quarter 2023
Boardroom Battle
Few banks can tout a success story as enviable as Cherry Hill, New Jersey-based Commerce Bancorp. Anyone who invested in Commerce back in 1973, when Vernon Hill II founded the bank, saw their investment grow 470 times by 2007, when the bank sold to TD Bank Financial Group, he says. “The 34-year annual return to our shareholders was 23% a year. … If you look at the growth numbers of Commerce, there was nobody even close to it.” The bank went from a single location with just nine employees to almost $50 billion in assets, more than 12,000 employees and...
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