PROXY CORNER: Lakeland Financial Corp.

Lakeland Financial Corp., P.O. Box 1387, Warsaw, Ind., 46581, is a holding company for Lake City Bank, which has about $3.2 billion in assets. Lakeland has a regional headquarters at 96th and Meridian streets in Indianapolis. Lakeland has 45 branches, most of them in northern Indiana. In 2013, Lakeland earned $38.8 millon, or $2.33 per share. That compared with earnings of $35.4 million, or $2.15 per share, a year earlier. Lakeland’s website is www.lakecitybank.com, and its shares trade on NASDAQ under the ticker LKFN. Information for Proxy Corner came from the company’s proxy statement filed March 3, 2014, and from Yahoo Finance. View full Proxy Corner feature.