BB&T Fourth Quarter 2009 Earnings Conference Call

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Dec. 16  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BB&T Corporation (NYSE:BBT), a regional financial holding company, will report its fourth quarter 2009 earnings prior to market opening on Jan. 22, 2010. Chief Executive Officer Kelly S. King and Chief Financial Officer Daryl N. Bible will host a conference call to discuss fourth quarter 2009 performance on Jan. 22, 2010 beginning at 8 a.m. (ET).

This conference call is being webcast live by CCBN and may be accessed at BB&T's website at http://www.bbt.com/. A replay of the call will also be available at the same web address until 5:00 p.m. (ET) on Feb. 5, 2010.

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors may listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at http://www.fulldisclosure.com/ or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors may access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com/).

About BB&T:

BB&T Corporation, headquartered in Winston-Salem, N.C., is among the nation's top financial-holding companies with $165.3 billion in assets.  Its bank subsidiaries operate more than 1,800 financial centers in the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, Maryland, Florida, Alabama, Indiana, Texas, Nevada and Washington, D.C.

  Contact Information:
  Analyst Contact
  Tamera Gjesdal, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
  336-733-3058

  Media Contact:
  Cynthia Williams, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications,
  336-733-1478


DATASOURCE: BB&T Corporation



CONTACT:  Analysts: Tamera Gjesdal, Senior Vice President, Investor

Relations, [phone], or Media: Cynthia Williams, Senior Vice President,

Corporate Communications, [phone], both of BB&T Corporation



Web Site:  http://www.bbt.com/ 

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