- CEO
- Jeffrey S. Bechtel
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Banks - Regional
- Address
- 120 North Street Bellevue OH United States of America 44811
- IPO Date
- Feb 20, 2013
- Business
- First Bancshares Inc. is a bank holding company that owns First National Bank, a community bank providing retail and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses, and farmers in northern Ohio. First National Bank offers deposit products including checking accounts, savings accounts, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit; consumer loans such as mortgages, home equity loans, auto loans, and boat loans; commercial loans encompassing commercial real estate, farm lines of credit, farm real estate, farm term loans, lines of credit, and term loans; and additional services comprising credit cards, treasury management, online banking, mobile banking, merchant services, ATM access, and loan services, while its subsidiary First Bellevue Properties manages foreclosed assets and real estate. The company, founded in 1982 with roots in the 1875-chartered First National Bank of Bellevue, maintains headquarters at 120 North Street in Bellevue, Ohio, and operates nine branches in Bellevue, Catawba, Clyde, Fremont, Norwalk, Perkins, Port Clinton, Put-in-Bay, and Sandusky. In recent developments, the bank expanded its footprint with new offices in Fremont in 2017 and Perkins Township in 2020, completed a headquarters remodel and addition in early 2020, raised $8 million through a subordinated note offering in 2021, and appointed Jeff Bechtel as president and CEO effective March 31, 2025, succeeding longtime leader Dean J. Miller.