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Contact: Lauren
Sides
Vice President of Corporate Communications
(303) 495-1210
lauren.sides@amr.net
Media Alert
AMR Paramedics to Ring NYSE Opening Bell as Stock Debuts
What: American
Medical Response (AMR) paramedics will help ring the opening
bell on the New York Stock Exchange on the morning of February
10, 2004. Denver-based AMR, the nation’s largest private-sector
provider of ambulance services and a major ambulance service
provider along the Front Range, also will have a state-of-the-art
ambulance posted outside the Exchange in celebration of the
debut of its parent company’s stock on the NYSE.
Laidlaw International, Inc., parent company
of AMR, will trade common stock under the symbol “LI.”
The common stock also will continue to trade on the Toronto
Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol “BUS.”
Kevin Benson, Chief Executive Officer of Laidlaw,
will ring the opening bell accompanied by paramedics from
AMR and employees from Laidlaw’s other subsidiaries.
In addition to AMR, Laidlaw is the parent company for Greyhound
Bus and North America’s largest providers of school
bus services and hospital emergency room management services.
Laidlaw has annual revenues of $4.5 billion, more than 90,000
employees in the U.S. and Canada, and is headquartered in
suburban Chicago. The company emerged from bankruptcy protection
in June 2003 with a new management team and a new Board of
Directors.
Where/When: New
York Stock Exchange, New York 9:30 a.m. (EDT), February 10,
2004
Broadcast Feed Information:
The Opening Bell feed, beginning at 9:25 a.m. (EST) and The
Closing Bell feed, beginning at 3:55 p.m. (EST) are available
daily via fiber line at: Waterfront #1630.
THIS SATELLITE FEED CONTAINS: Footage of CEO
Kevin Benson of Laidlaw International, Inc. at the NYSE, ringing
The Opening Bell™:
FEED DATE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2004
FEED TIME: 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM ET
COORDINATES: C-BAND: TELSTAR 5 /TRANSPONDER 23 /AUDIO 6.2
& 6.8
DL FREQ: 4160 (V)
RE-FEED DATE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2004
RE-FEED TIME: 1:00 – 1:15 PM ET
COORDINATES: C-BAND: TELSTAR 5 /TRANSPONDER 23 /AUDIO 6.2
& 6.8
DL FREQ: 4160 (V)
American Medical Response, Inc.
(www.amr.net), the nation’s largest provider of
medical transportation, is locally operated in 32 states.
AMR provides emergency and non-emergency ambulance services
in communities along the Front Range, including Denver, Boulder,
Golden, Colorado Springs, Canon City, Pueblo, and Cheyenne,
WY. More than 17,000 AMR paramedics, EMTs and other professionals
transport over four million patients nationwide each year
in emergency, critical and non-emergency situations. AMR,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Laidlaw, is headquartered in
Greenwood Village, CO.
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