no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . february 2009 emprise financial corporation type private industry finance founded wichita kansas united states headquarters kansas key people mike michaelis chairman ; tom page president products banking website https www.emprisebank.com emprise bank is a kansas based family owned community bank headquartered in wichita kansas with more than 1 billion in assets . emprise has 41 locations across the state of kansas including branches in wichita andover augusta chanute council grove derby el dorado eureka goddard hays haysville hillsboro humboldt iola lawrence maize moran mulvane park city potwin rose hill toronto and valley center . history edit the history of emprise bank began in 1910 with the formation of stockyards national bank in wichita kansas . in 1965 w.a. michaelis jr. purchased sierra petroleum co. inc. which owned stockyards national bank . in the early 1970s stockyards bank was renamed united american bank & trust company to reflect the bank s expansion into other parts of the city . sierra later became emprise financial corporation . over the next 25 years the michaelis family acquired banks in communities across the state including council grove eureka hays hillsboro iola moran toronto and potwin . during this period the michaelis family also acquired the national bank of wichita and wichita state bank . in 1989 the banks located in wichita were merged and the combined institution was named emprise bank . the michaelis family s banks throughout the state were aligned geographically and merged to form four community bank charters . these banks were renamed emprise bank . in the early 1990s emprise expanded into lawrence and added branch locations in the wichita area . emprise bank then acquired wichita federal savings & loan in the mid 1990s which increased the bank s market share and doubled its asset size . in 2002 emprise opened a location in el dorado and in 2003 locations were acquired in humboldt and chanute . over the next two years the community banks were all merged under one emprise bank charter . then in november 2006 emprise bank merged with prairie state bank adding eleven additional branches to the emprise network and increasing the number of employees to nearly 500 . through the merger emprise bank reached 1 billion in total assets . today emprise bank has 42 locations in more than 20 communities across the state of kansas . the art of emprise edit the art of emprise is a collection of art owned by the bank . the collection showcases pieces from kansas artists and now includes works from more than 530 artists . many of these pieces come from students and faculty at colleges and universities across the state . in 1980 the kansas watercolor society asked the emprise bank to sponsor its annual show ; the bank agreed and began making patron purchases on behalf of the banks . they have continued this sponsorship since and expanded the art of emprise collection well beyond watercolors . originally the focus was simply finding unique pieces of art but that focus changed to include artists with a kansas connection . the art is available to be viewed at emprise bank locations as well as some other locations . works of the collection have been displayed at the andover library andover kan. beach museum manhattan kan. coutts art museum el dorado kan. lawrence arts center ulrich museum and the wichita art museum . the collection has also been shared with the u.s. art in embassies program having works displayed in belize and uzbekistan . external links edit 1 2 emprise bank online education center wichita business journal profile on tom page wichita business journal profile on mike michaelis retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title emprise bank & oldid 699844306 categories banks based in kansasbanks established in 1910hidden categories orphaned articles from february 2009all orphaned articlespages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 january 2016 at 20 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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