 Business First Bancshares, Inc. Business First BFST, the holding company for b1BANK, has completed its acquisition of Pedestal Bancshares, Inc. Pedestal and its wholly owned bank subsidiary, Pedestal Bank. We are committed to being our regions bank of choice, come good times or bad said Jude Melville, president and CEO of b1BANK. With the completion of the acquisition, b1BANK has approximately 4.1 billion in assets, 3.0 billion in loans and 3.3 billion in deposits estimates include 0.4 billion of loans and deposits associated with the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program. 