BancorpSouth Announces Fourth Quarter Earnings Webcast Schedule
PRNewswire-FirstCall
TUPELO, Miss.

Officials of BancorpSouth, Inc. said today that the company will release fourth quarter 2007 earnings on Wednesday, January 23 after the market closes. It will also hold its regularly scheduled web cast Thursday, January 24 beginning at 10:00 a.m. CST.

The webcast is live coverage of management's conference call with analysts and can be found on the company's internet site (www.bancorpsouth.com). 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 is a $13.1 billion-asset bank holding company. The company's banking subsidiary operates approximately 290 banking and mortgage locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas.

First Call Analyst:
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SOURCE: BancorpSouth, Inc.

CONTACT: Financial, L. Nash Allen, Jr., +1-662-680-2330; Media, Randy
Burchfield, +1-662-620-4302, both of BancorpSouth, Inc.