National City Corp. of Cleveland has acquired Wayne Bancorp. Inc., a company with 23 branches in northern Ohio.
The fill-in acquisition was announced Tuesday. National City, which paid $180 million in cash for the Wooster, Ohio, company, plans to convert Wayne's systems to its platform by mid-December. National City bought Allegiant Bancorp Inc. of St. Louis in April and Provident Financial Group Inc. of Cincinnati in July.
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