Agnello Promoted To Senior V.P. At SCA

Furniture World Magazine

Shoppers Charge Accounts Co. (SCA) has promoted Barbara Agnello to senior vice president-operations, merchant services and merchant relations. She most recently served as vice president for those three areas. Ms. Agnello joined the private label credit card company in 1995 as assistant to the operations manager and was later promoted to vice president-operations, customer service and merchant services. Prior to joining SCA, the Hillsdale, N.J. resident spent over 17 years at Citizens First National Bank in Glen Rock, N.J., where she held various operational positions. SCA services brick-and-mortar and catalog retailers throughout the U.S. The company acquires retailers’ receivables or will develop private label credit card programs for merchants who currently don’t offer a house charge. In both situations, SCA assumes responsibility for generating customers’ billing statements; managing credit, collection, and lockbox functions; and creating customized marketing programs. Ranked among the nation’s largest private label credit card companies, SCA is a division of Hudson United Bank, a subsidiary of Hudson United Bancorp (NYSE: HU). Hudson United Bancorp is a $7 billion asset company with over 200 branch offices in New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania. Hudson United Bancorp’s subsidiaries offer a full array of innovative products and services to commercial and retail accounts, including imaged checking accounts, 24-hour telephone and Internet banking, loans by phone, alternative investment products, insurance products, private label credit cards programs and a wide variety of commercial loans and services including asset based loans, SBA loans, international services and cash management services. Wealth management services are also provided to individuals and businesses. Public sector products and services are provided to local and state governments, municipalities, educational institutions, civic and not-for-profit organizations.