Atmos Energy Corporation Promotes Conrad E. Gruber to New Position of Vice President, Strategic Planning.DALLAS -- Atmos Energy Atmos Energy (NYSE: ATO), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is the largest distributor of natural gas in the United States, serving 3.1 million customers nationwide. Atmos acquired TXU's natural gas and pipeline holdings in 2004. Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ATO ATO Australian Taxation Office ATO Ambito Territoriale Ottimale (Italy) ATO Alpha Tau Omega ATO Air Traffic Organization (FAA) ATO Arab Towns Organization ATO Air Tasking Order ATO Assemble To Order ) said that Conrad E. Gruber has been named to the new position of vice president, strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , effective today. He will report to J. Patrick Reddy, Atmos Energy's senior vice president and chief financial officer. Gruber, 43, had been president of Atmos Energy's Louisiana Division, the company's largest utility unit based in Baton Rouge, since June 2001. The company said Gruber's replacement in Louisiana will be named soon. In his new position, Gruber will be responsible for working with Atmos Energy's six utility divisions to develop rate strategies and to improve the quality of revenue recovery. He also will work with the company's nonutility operations on growth initiatives involving capital projects and new products and services. "It is vital to the continued success of Atmos Energy that we focus on our overall rate strategy as well as identify other new strategies to drive financial performance," said Robert W. Best, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Atmos Energy Corporation. "I'm confident that Conrad will provide outstanding leadership in these areas." Before moving to Louisiana, Gruber served as president of Atmos Energy's Kentucky Division from 1999 to 2001. He began his career with Atmos Energy in February 1991 as engineering and measurement coordinator in the Dallas headquarters. From 1994 to 1999, he served as vice president, technical services, of Atmos Energy's Colorado-Kansas Division. Gruber holds a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin “University of Texas” redirects here. For other system schools, see University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Austin (often referred to as The University of Texas, UT Austin, UT, or Texas . Atmos Energy Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, is one of the largest natural gas distributors in the United States, serving about 1.7 million utility customers. Atmos Energy's utility operations serve more than 1,000 small and medium-size communities in 12 states from the Blue Ridge Mountains Blue Ridge also Blue Ridge Mountains A range of the Appalachian Mountains extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia. It rises to 2,038.6 m (6,684 ft) at Mount Mitchell in the Black Mountains of western North Carolina. in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. Atmos Energy's nonutility operations, organized under Atmos Energy Holdings, Inc., operate in 18 states. They provide natural gas marketing and procurement services to industrial, commercial and municipal customers, manage company-owned natural gas storage and pipeline assets and construct small electric generating plants for industrial and municipal customers. On June 17, 2004, Atmos Energy announced a definitive agreement to acquire TXU TXU Texas Utilities (Electric and Gas Company) TXU Transmitter Unit Gas Company from TXU Corp. for $1.925 billion. For more information, visit www.atmosenergy.com. |
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