Home BancShares, Inc. to Present At the Stephens, Inc. Spring Investment Conference

CONWAY, Ark., May 27, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Home BancShares, Inc.
(Nasdaq:HOMB) announced that it would participate as a presenter at the Stephens
Inc. Spring Investment Conference to be held in New York, NY, on June 2-3, 2009.

John Allison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Home BancShares, Inc.,
will present at 8:30 a.m. CT (9:30 ET), on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, followed by a
question and answer session. The conference presentation will be webcast live,
and can be accessed through the Company's website, www.homebancshares.com, under
Investor Relations. Those accessing the webcast presentation should allow extra
time to register and download any necessary software. A replay will be available
for 90 days for those who are unable to listen to the live broadcast.

Home BancShares, Inc. is a bank holding company, headquartered in Conway,
Arkansas, with bank subsidiaries that provide a broad range of commercial and
retail banking and related financial services to businesses, real estate
developers and investors, individuals and municipalities. The bank subsidiaries
have locations in central Arkansas, north central Arkansas, southern Arkansas,
the Florida Keys and southwestern Florida. Recently, the Company announced plans
to combine the charters of its banks into a single charter and adopt Centennial
Bank as their common name. This combination is in process and is expected to be
completed by June of this year. The Company's common stock is traded through the
NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "HOMB."

This release contains forward-looking statements regarding the Company's plans,
expectations, goals and outlook for the future. Statements in this press release
that are not historical facts should be considered forward-looking statements
within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Forward-looking statements of this type speak only as of the date of this news
release. By nature, forward-looking statements involve inherent risk and
uncertainties. Various factors, including, but not limited to, economic
conditions, credit quality, interest rates, loan demand and changes in the
assumptions used in making the forward-looking statements, could cause actual
results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking
statements. Additional information on factors that might affect Home BancShares,
Inc.'s financial results are included in its Form 10-K, filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission in March 2009.

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CONTACT: Home BancShares, Inc.
Brian S. Davis, Director of Financial Reporting
(501) 328-4770