Webster Financial Corporation Announces Earnings Conference Call; Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 1:00 p.m. ET

Apr 01, 2004

WATERBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2004--Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, will announce first quarter earnings and host a conference call on April 15, 2004. The conference call is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.

Earnings Release: Before the market opens on Thursday, April 15, 2004.

Conference Call:  1:00 p.m. eastern time, Thursday, April 15, 2004.
                  Dial-in number:  (800) 901-5218 (listen only)
Access Code:      32674862
Webcast:          www.wbst.com

Conference
 Call Replay:     Available via phone from approximately 3:00 p.m.,
                  4/15/04 until 4/22/04.

Dial-in number:   (888) 286-8010
Access Code:      80889583
Webcast:          www.wbst.com

This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at Webster's Investor Relations web site at www.wbst.com.

The webcast is also be distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network such as America Online's Personal Finance Channel, Fidelity Investments(R) (Fidelity.com) and others. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). StreetEvents allows institutional investors to identify, organize, and track the hundreds of conference calls that occur each day during earnings season, to download events of interest to their Outlook calendar, and to RSVP to events online.

Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank and Webster Insurance. With $14.6 billion in assets, Webster provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, insurance, financial planning, trust and investment services through 119 banking offices, 233 ATMs, a Connecticut-based call center and the Internet. Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending firm Webster Business Credit Corporation, the insurance premium finance company Budget Installment Corp., Center Capital Corporation, an equipment finance company headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut and Webster Trust Company, N.A.

CONTACT: Webster Financial Corporation
Investor Relations:
Terry Mangan 203-578-2318
tmangan@websterbank.com

SOURCE: Webster Financial Corporation