Card Users, Credit Union Employees Winners in TNB Card Services? First Sweepstakes Promotion

An Alabama credit card user won a 42-inch high-definition plasma television set and a Phoenix loan officer won a four-day cruise in TNB Card Services’ first sweepstakes for the company’s agent issuing credit union clients and their cardholders.

Winners of the sweepstakes were announced today. The contests were held in November and December 2005. The “Give Me Five” sweepstakes was for cardholders, and the “Cruise for Cards” was for personnel at the credit unions where TNB owns and manages the credit card portfolio.

Margaret Steincamp, a retired educator from Huntsville, Alabama, was the grand prize winner of the “Give Me Five” contest, winning the HDTV television, with a built-in DVD player and recorder. Brandi King, a loan officer at Banner Federal Credit Union in Phoenix, won the cruise.

Steincamp, who was a school principal and English and math teacher before she retired, says she isn?t even sure what it was she purchased with her North Alabama Educators Credit Union MasterCard, issued by TNB that qualified her for the sweepstakes.

“I was surprised to get a call saying I won a large screen TV just for using my MasterCard,” said Steincamp. “My mother, who lives with me and my husband, is more excited than anyone. She can?t wait to watch the Atlanta Braves, her favorite baseball team, on the large screen.”

King, winner of the “Cruise for Cards” contest, has worked at Banner Federal Credit Union for six years.

More than 6,500 entries, qualified for the “Give Me Five” promotion. In addition to the grand prize, 10 cardholders from credit unions in Texas, Wisconsin, California, and Missouri received $100 Best Buy® gift cards.

Employees from 33 of TNB’s agent credit union clients actively participated in the “Cruise for Cards” promotion. For each new account generated from applications they provided, credit union employees’ names earned another entry in the contest drawing. The employees also won prizes based on the number of opened card accounts during the sweepstakes. In all, “Cruise for Cards” generated 68 percent more new accounts, compared with the same two months of 2004.