BancorpSouth Announces Fourth Quarter Earnings Webcast Schedule
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TUPELO, Miss.

Officials of BancorpSouth, Inc. said today that the company will release fourth quarter 2009 earnings on Thursday, January 21 after the close of the financial markets. It will also hold its regularly scheduled webcast Friday, January 22, beginning at 10:00 a.m. CST.

The webcast is live coverage of management's conference call with analysts and can be found by going to the company's internet site (www.bancorpsouth.com) and selecting "Investor Relations". This will be an interactive session between management and analysts; others may listen to the live broadcast as it happens. The conference will also be available in archived format at the same address.

BancorpSouth, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, with approximately $13.3 billion in assets. BancorpSouth Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BancorpSouth, Inc., operates approximately 314 commercial banking, mortgage, insurance, trust and broker/dealer locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas. BancorpSouth Bank also operates an insurance location in Illinois.

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CONTACT: Financial: Bill Prater, +1-662-680-2536, Media: Randy
Burchfield, +1-662-620-4302, both of BancorpSouth, Inc.