Chittenden Corporation was a banking company founded in Burlington, Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....

. The stock was traded on the New York Stock Exchange

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 from 1974 to 2007. The company merged on January 1, 2008, with People's United Bank

People's United Bank

People's United Bank, a diversified financial services company with over $22 billion in assets, provides consumer and commercial banking services through a network of subsidiary banks with approximately 300 branches in Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and New York...

 in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport, Connecticut

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Chittenden Corporation was a bank holding company that provided financial services through its banking subsidiaries. The company was the holding company parent and owned 100% of the common stock of Chittenden Trust Company (doing business as Chittenden Bank), Flagship Bank and Trust Company, The Bank of Western Massachusetts, Maine Bank & Trust, and Ocean National Bank. Through its subsidiaries, Chittenden offered a variety of lending services, with loans totaling approximately $4.7 billion during the year ended December 31, 2006. Chittenden's largest loan categories were commercial loans and residential real estate loans. Commercial loans included commercial, municipal, multi-family residential

Multi-family residential

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 real estate, commercial real estate and construction. Chittenden owned banks in Vermont, New Hampshire

New Hampshire

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, Maine

Maine

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, and Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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People's United Bank

As of July 2010, all seven banks were integrated under the People's United Bank brand, and no longer are referred to as divisions of the organization.