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Article: TODAY, NIMO NAME IS NO MORE; NIAGARA MOHAWK DROPS ITS HISTORIC NAME FOR THE "GLOBAL" NATIONAL GRID.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2005
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Byline: Tim Knauss Staff writer
Beginning today, employees at the Upstate utility formerly known as Niagara Mohawk will answer the phone the same way utility employees in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and the United Kingdom answer the phone:
"National Grid."
The British company that bought Niagara Mohawk in 2002 has decided that all of its subsidiaries will do business under a common banner. The change happens today.
Company officials want to create a single, global brand that befits the world's fourth-largest investor-owned utility, said Ed Powers, of National Grid plc.
Locally, the change might take some getting used to.
Gone is the ...