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CONTACT INFORMATION
Utility Business Services, Inc.
www.nui.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Elizabethtown Water Company
Taps into Utility Business Services' WINS/2 Product to keep Its Information
Flowing
UNION, NJ., February 3, 1998 - Utility Business
Services, Inc. (UBS), a subsidiary of NUI Corporation (NYSE:NUI),
has announced that Elizabethtown Water Company of Westfield, NJ
has chosen UBS' WINS/2 product as its customer information system
for the next millennium. Elizabethtown Water Company signed a contract
with UBS on January 16, 1998.
Elizabethtown Water Company, a subsidiary of E'town Corporation
(NYSE:Etown), serves approximately 207,000 customers in 54 New Jersey
communities. Edward F. Cash, Elizabethtown's vice president of customer
services, explained that the utility recently determined that it
required a new customer information system to maximize its account
management and billing efforts.
"We selected WINS/2 after a review of our business processes
and a careful study of CIS products in the marketplace," he
said. "Clearly, this product, and the UBS staff that supports
it, offers Elizabethtown Water Company the means to accomplish our
objectives."
UBS developed WINS/2 to Offer clients a full-featured system to
Enhance their CIS capabilities. It can be packaged as either an
outsourced service or a software application residing at the client
utility's processing site, according to UBS vice president Robert
L. Williams.
"Elizabethtown Water Company's commitment to use of WINS/2
demonstrates the strategic asset the product offers to businesses
that are focused on superior customer service by virtue of its power
and flexibility" Williams said. "We are pleased Elizabethtown
Water Company has chosen UBS as it moves ahead in this mission critical
area."
Utility Business Services, Inc., a subsidiary of NUI Corporation
(NYSE:NUI), provides customer information systems and related services
to investor-owned and municipal utilities as well as third-party
energy providers. UBS produces nearly 3 million bills annually
for 20 clients with state-of-the-art computing capabilities in support
of approximately 600,000 customers. NUI Corporation, headquartered
in Bedminster, NJ, is a multi-state energy sales, services and distribution
company serving more than 360,000 customers along the eastern seaboard.
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