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Article: Detroit Free Press Michigan Memo Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- February 21, 2000
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Feb. 22--CONSUMERS ENERGY and Chubu Electric Power Co. of Nagoya, Japan, have signed an agreement to form a purchasing alliance.
The agreement calls for the creation of committees of Consumers and Chubu employees who will develop a program plan and a schedule for implementing it.
The agreement between Consumers, the fourth-largest combination utility in the United States, and Chubu, Japan's third-largest electric utility, originated with a 1992 decision by the companies to share information so they could improve customer service and operations.
Consumers, the principal subsidiary of Dearborn-based CMS Energy Corp., provides energy services to ...