NEW YORK, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CIT Group
Inc. (NYSE: CIT) today announced that it has won two
Stevie® Awards for business excellence in the 19th
Annual American Business Awards®. The awards include a Gold
award for Company of the Year in Banking and a Silver award for
Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year.
"CIT is pleased to be recognized for our dedication to our
customers and communities during the changes and challenges of the
past year," said CIT Chairwoman and CEO Ellen R. Alemany. "These awards reflect the
collaboration and innovation of our teams in ensuring our customers
and communities are supported and empowered."
CIT's Gold award for Company of the Year in Banking was received
for the leadership and adaptability of CIT's Community Association
Banking team in radically resetting its customer engagement
strategy and focusing on support and care for clients in an
ever-evolving environment. Developed in response to the virtual
push of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual engagement and training
efforts resulted in strong performance and enabled clients to
manage their financial needs and customer demands in a more dynamic
and digitized environment.
The Silver award for Corporate Social Responsibility Program of
the Year in the large business category came in recognition of
CIT's Acts of Caring campaign, a transformed employee volunteer
campaign that reflected the needs of local communities during the
pandemic and focused on doing something good, wherever you are and
at a safe social distance. The multi-faceted campaign resulted in
the completion of 3,000+ Acts of Caring and the donation of nearly
5,000 volunteer hours by CIT employees in support of various causes
including hunger relief, COVID-19 relief and protecting the
environment. The campaign also provided support for ten
customer-nominated, nonprofit-led community projects.
The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.'s premier business awards program. All
organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations –
public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and
small. More than 3,800 nominations – a record number - from
organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were
submitted this year.
"The American economy continues to show its resilience, and as
we're poised on the beginning of what should be a phenomenal period
of growth, we celebrate the remarkable achievements of a wide range
of organizations and people over the past 18 months," said Stevie
Awards president Maggie Gallagher.
"This year's Stevie-winning nominations in The American Business
Awards are testament to the ingenuity, the commitment, the passion,
the adaptability, and the creativity of the American people."
About CIT
CIT is a leading national bank focused on empowering businesses and
personal savers with the financial agility to navigate their goals.
CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is a financial holding company with over
a century of experience and operates a principal bank subsidiary,
CIT Bank, N.A. (Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender). The company's
commercial banking segment includes commercial financing, community
association banking, middle market banking, equipment and vendor
financing, factoring, railcar financing, treasury and payments
services, and capital markets and asset management. CIT's consumer
banking segment includes a national direct bank and regional branch
network. Discover more at cit.com/about.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in
eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie
Awards, the Middle East &
North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The
International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in
Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie
Awards for Sales & Customer Service. The Stevies also produce
the annual Women|Future Conference. Stevie Awards
competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from
organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of
all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies
recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.
Learn more about the Stevie Awards at
http://www.StevieAwards.com.
MEDIA RELATIONS:
Lexa Tutela
212-461-5305
Alexandra.Tutela@cit.com
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