U.S. Bancorp

U.S. Bancorp is a financial services holding company, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its retail division is U.S. Bank, the sixth-largest bank in the United States based on holdings.

The bank has developed from a number of mergers, beginning with First Bank System's aquisition of the origional U.S. Bancorp (originally headquartered in Portland, Oregon) in 1997, and then with Firstar Bank's aquisition of U.S. Bancorp in 2000.

The U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles is named for this company.

U.S. Bancorp was number 133 in the Fortune 500 list of major U.S. companies for 2003.

External link

U.S. Bancorp (http://www.usbank.com/) official site

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