MBN MBN Corporation

TORONTO, May 10 /CNW/ -- TORONTO, May 10 /CNW/ - MIDDLEFIELD BANCORP LIMITED ("MBN") announced today its intention to make a normal course issuer bid for its common shares through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX").  This normal course issuer bid is intended to commence on May 12, 2011 and will terminate on May 11, 2012.  The price that MBN will pay for any securities purchased will be the prevailing market price of such securities on the TSX at the time of such purchase. At May 3, 2011 there were 8,847,648 common shares issued and outstanding.  MBN may, during the 12 month period commencing May 12, 2011, purchase on the TSX up to 442,382 common shares, being 5% of the common shares outstanding.  MBN may not however purchase more than 1,000 common shares on any given day, other than block purchases in accordance with the rules of the TSX.  MBN will cancel all common shares purchased pursuant to the bid.  MBN has purchased and subsequently cancelled 55,300 common shares since May 12, 2010 at an average price of $1.16 per common share under its previously approved normal course issuer bid. MBN believes that the current and recent market price of its common shares does not reflect its underlying value.  As a result, depending on future movements and other factors, MBN believes that its common shares may represent an attractive investment for MBN and a desirable use of its available funds.  Any normal course purchases made by MBN will also afford an increased degree of liquidity to those shareholders of MBN who wish to dispose of their common shares. MBN is a Canadian merchant bank managed by Middlefield Group.  The Company's principal objective is to create long term shareholder value through a twofold strategy of strategic investing in businesses with strong management and exceptional prospects for longer term earnings growth and special situation investing where there is excellent potential for significant capital appreciation.  Our aim is to produce a steady stream of growing earnings from strategic investments supplemented by earnings from special situation activities. MBN trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "MBN". To view this news release in HTML formatting, please use the following URL: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/10/c3031.html p visit our website at a font-weight="bold" href="http://www.middlefield.com/"www.middlefield.com/ab /bor contact: /p p align="justify" W. Garth Jestleybr/ President and Chief Executive Officerbr/ (416) 847-5346 /p

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