Empire Financial Holding Company Opens San Francisco Investment Banking Office

LONGWOOD, Fla., April 28  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Empire Financial Holding Company (AMEX:EFH), a financial brokerage services firm serving retail and institutional clients ("Empire"), today announced that its Empire Financial Group subsidiary has opened a San Francisco based Investment Banking and Institutional Sales office.  The office is located at 150 California Street, San Francisco, CA. [phone]

Donald Wojnowski Jr, Chief Executive Officer and President of Empire stated "The opening of this office furthers advances Empire's commitment to developing its investment banking capabilities and when coupled with our existing New York City Investment Banking and Institutional sales operation, Empire is clearly positioned to offer qualified issuers a full range of financing opportunities."

About Empire Financial Holding Company

Empire Financial Holding Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Empire Financial Group, Inc., provides full-service retail brokerage services through its network of independently owned and independently operated offices. Through its market-making and trading division, the Company offers securities order execution services for unaffiliated broker dealers and makes markets in domestic and international securities.  Empire Financial also provides Investment Banking services for clients as well as turn-key fee based investment advisory and registered investment advisor custodial services through its wholly owned subsidiary, Empire Investment Advisors, Inc.

Forward-Looking Statement Disclaimer

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties or other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  Factors that might cause such a difference include, without limitation, fluctuations in the volume of transactional services provided by the Company, competition with respect to financial services commission rates, the effect of general economic and market conditions, factors affecting the securities brokerage industry as well as other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings

  CONTACT
  Donald A. Wojnowski, Jr., President
  Empire Financial Holding Company
  [phone] ext 1841
  

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CONTACT:  Donald A. Wojnowski, Jr., President of Empire Financial Holding

Company, [phone], ext. 1841, 

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