New Portage MACU Branch Manager, Devra Leonard, Promotes Importance of Local Business at Rise, Shine, and Share

MACU-12Devra Leonard, Branch Manager of the Portage Members Advantage Credit Union (MACU), spoke to members of the Greater Portage Chamber of Commerce this morning at their Rise, Shine, and Share Breakfast on the benefits of working with a small, local business, and the advantages to working with a local credit union; as opposed to a larger bank.

“We are a local credit union, we are members owned, and once you become a member that means you get voting rights,” Leonard said at the breakfast. “And since we are a small, local business we don’t go for the bigger businesses around town. We want to work with small, local, companies.”

Leonard added that MACU works hard to accomplish that by putting the small, personal touches to doing with business them that a lot of other banks just don’t do; like doing whatever it takes to work around the schedules of the companies they work with.

“If you are interest in working with us I will come out to you,” Leonard said. “I have a company that I work with that I will come out to meet with them on their lunch break, just so they can get a chance to ask any questions if they might not be able to make it out to a bank.”

“I get the information out them.”

But Leonard also reminded members that even though MACU may be a small, local company that doesn’t mean you won’t get the big business availability.

“We over have 5,000 shared-branching locations,” Leonard added. “And you can do all your transactions there, you’re not limited to just our locations.”

Overall, the Rise, Shine, and Share breakfast was a great chance for local businesses to connect with MACU, and put a face to a local credit union that cares about Portage’s local business scene and works hard to provide them with the best opportunities to succeed.

Photo from Andrew Rowe