BANKING
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Great Western Buys Republic Federal Assets: Great Western Financial Corp. of Beverly Hills, continuing an expansion binge, has agreed to buy five Republic Federal Savings & Loan branches and assume the deposits of six. About $525 million in deposits from Woodland Hills-based Republic Federal will be transferred to Great Western Bank. The purchase price of the assets wasn’t revealed. Republic Federal is a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Co. of Tacoma, Wash.
