Webster Financial Corporation Announces Earnings Conference Call, Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 1:00 p.m. ET

Jan 05, 2004

WATERBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2004--Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, will announce fourth quarter earnings and host a conference call on January 22, 2004. The conference call is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.

    Earnings Release: Before the market opens on Thursday, January 22,
        2004.

    Conference Call: 1:00 p.m. eastern time, Thursday, January 22,
        2004.

            Dial-in number: (800) 299-8538 (listen only)
            Access Code: 21041266
            Webcast: www.wbst.com

    Conference Call Replay: Available via phone from approximately
        3:00 p.m.,

            1/22/04 until 1/29/04.
            Dial-in number: (888) 286-8010
            Access Code: 77175143
            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 more than $14 billion in assets, Webster Bank provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, insurance, trust and investment services through 119 banking offices, 234 ATMs, a Connecticut-based call center and the Internet. Webster Financial Corporation is majority owner of Chicago-based Duff & Phelps, LLC, a leader in financial advisory services. Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending firm Whitehall 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
Terry Mangan (IR), 203-578-2318
tmangan@websterbank.com

SOURCE: Webster Financial Corporation