SCHUYLKILL HAVEN - The National Penn Bank in Schuylkill Haven will close at the end of the business day April 30.
A sign posted on the door of the bank at 333 Center Ave. said, "We value you and your business and look forward to serving you at any of our other branches close by."
The sign said customers can visit either the Pottsville location at 111 E. Norwegian St. or the Schuylkill Mall location in Frackville. There is also a location at 5 N. Main St., Shenandoah.
Jacklyn Bingaman, marketing director for National Penn, would not confirm the Schuylkill Haven branch is closing despite the sign.
"I am not suppose to comment on any of the locations until all the customers are notified" by letter, she said Wednesday.
In all, nine branch locations will be consolidated, according to the fourth quarter and full 2013 earnings webcast by the bank holding company, National Penn Bankshares Inc.
Five of the nine branches are located within two miles of another location, and four of them are supermarket branches, the company said.
The company, with its headquarters in Boyertown, has 119 branches in Pennsylvania and one in Maryland.
Bingaman would not say where the nine consolidating locations are.
She said the affected locations are closing because they are near other ones and cited "changing customer preferences," which include online banking.
Workers at the Schuylkill Haven branch did not want to comment Wednesday.
When asked what will happen to the employees at the affected branches, Bingaman said she could not comment other than to say that they will make efforts to help those employees into other positions in the company.
With the nine branch closures and consolidations of facilities in the Lehigh Valley and Berks County, 112 people will be affected, company information showed.
Bingaman said the company is trying to be considerate to customers.
"We're trying to minimize customer impact," she said.