as nyse pb founded houston texas united states 1983 headquarters houston texas united states products banking revenue 297.441 m as of december 31 2013 number of employees 3 096 full time equivalent as of december 31 2014 website http www.prosperitybankusa.com prosperity bancshares inc. is a bank holding company operating in various areas in texas and central oklahoma . the company is headquartered in houston texas . the company through its main subsidiary prosperity bank operates as of january 4 2016 1 248 branch locations organized as follows 67 in the greater houston area including the woodlands 30 in south texas including corpus christi and victoria 36 in the dallas fort worth metroplex 22 in east texas 29 in central texas including austin and san antonio 34 in west texas 16 in the bryan college station area 14 in oklahoma six in the central oklahoma area and eight in the tulsa area history edit the company was formed in 1983 as a vehicle to purchase a former allied bank branch in edna texas . the edna bank dated back to 1949 as the first national bank of edna . 2 beginning in the late 1980s the company acquired several small and medium sized bank holding companies all of which were located in texas except for coppermark and f & m which were headquartered in oklahoma but each had texas branch locations and some of which had failed and were taken over by the federal deposit insurance corporation fdic . notable acquisitions include the 46 branch franklin bank in 2008 another houston based bank which the fdic had taken over . 3 the 37 branch american state bank completed in july 2012 which provided the company its first locations in west texas . 4 a smaller but notable acquisition took place in 2010 when prosperity purchased three texas banks owned by u.s. bancorp ; u.s. bancorp had earlier acquired those banks in the wake of the fbop corporation closure . 5 the nine branch coppermark bank completed in 2013 which provided the company its first presence outside the state of texas with six branches in central oklahoma . 6 the 34 branch first victoria national bank completed in 2013 7 the 13 branch f & m bancorporation inc. of tulsa oklahoma completed in 2014 which provided the company its first presence in the tulsa market 8 on december 28 2011 the company began trading on the nyse . it previously traded on nasdaq under the symbol prsp . 9 prosperity bancshares was named by forbes as america s best bank in 2012 10 11 a feat which it repeated in 2014 . 12 external links edit prosperity bank references edit https www.prosperitybankusa.com contentdocumenthandler.ashx documentid 38846 prosperity bancshares 2010 form 10 k. http www.fdic.gov news news press 2008 pr08113.html https www.prosperitybanktx.com contentdocumenthandler.ashx documentid 16606 http www.sec.gov archives edgar data 1068851 000119312510008896 dex991.htm https www.prosperitybanktx.com contentdocumenthandler.ashx documentid 20411 https www.prosperitybanktx.com contentdocumenthandler.ashx documentid 23990 https www.prosperitybankusa.com contentdocumenthandler.ashx documentid 26705 https www.prosperitybanktx.com sitecontent 13297 nyse % 20announcement % 2012.14.11.pdf forbes america s best bank nominations take place in the december of the prior year ; thus the 2012 and 2014 nominations took place in december 2011 and december 2013 respectively . http www.forbes.com sites kurtbadenhausen 2011 12 13 full list americas best and worst banks http www.forbes.com sites kurtbadenhausen 2013 12 19 americas best and worst banks 2014 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title prosperity bancshares & oldid 743465951 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangecompanies established in 1983banks based in texascompanies based in houston 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 9 october 2016 at 19 55 . 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