industry financial services fate merged with new england credit union on 1 1 2010 successor new england credit union community mutual group founded 1968 as upper hunter local government employee s credit union defunct 1 1 2010 continues as local brand of necu headquarters was muswellbrook new south wales australia number of locations muswellbrook scone aberdeen singleton murrurundi merriwa area served upper hunter valley new south wales services banking investment insurance financial planning number of employees 29 2009 website huntermutual.com.au community mutual group hunter mutual was a credit union based in and serving the upper hunter region of new south wales australia . it was established in 1968 as the upper hunter local government employee s credit union . 1 in 1971 it changed its name to the upper hunter credit union in 1971 and following a restructure of its operations in 2004 it took on the name hunter mutual . during the 1990s when many major banks closed branches in small country towns hunter mutual set up new branches areas within the upper hunter where this occurred . contents 1 merger 2 logos 3 references 4 external links merger edit in july 2009 a proposed merger between hunter mutual and the new england credit union was announced . 2 during december 2009 each credit union held their annual general meeting with a majority of members 96 % of hunter mutual members 93 % of necu members voting to approve the merger . 3 the merger took place on january 1 2010 with hunter mutual members becoming members of new england credit union with the two computer systems to be merged in march followed by the introduction of necu s product range and fee structure . the merged entity has retained all locations and hunter mutual ceo col sales has joined the executive management team . the combined company is the largest inland credit union in australia . it is planned that the new england and orana credit union arms of necu will be re branded as new england mutual and orana mutual mimicking the hunter mutual name . all three will also have the common name of the community mutual group . logos edit upper hunter credit union logo used from the late 1990s through to 2004 when they became hunter mutual references edit new england credit union http communitymutual.com.au aboutus.html hunter mutual http huntermutual.com.au media scripts doc download.aspx did 170 new england credit union http www.necu.com.au hmmergerinformation.html external links edit hunter mutual retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hunter mutual & oldid 655366942 categories credit unions of australiabanks established in 1968companies disestablished in 20101968 establishments in australia 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 7 april 2015 at 16 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view