For the fourth straight year, in their competition category, Atmos Energy's Kentucky Division has been named one of the 25 best places to work by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

The selection process was based on an assessment of Atmos' policies and procedures and a result of an internal employee survey that the Kentucky based employees participated.

“It is a great honor to once again be selected as one of the best places to work in Kentucky. I am very proud of our employees and their commitment to making Atmos Energy an employer of choice,” said Kevin Akers, president of the Kentucky division.

For the past three years, Atmos Energy ranked in the top 12 companies in Kentucky. This year's results will not be known until April, when the Kentucky Chamber and the Kentucky Society for Human Resources Management host a dinner, where the announcement will be made.

Atmos Energy employees 236 employees and we serve 173,000 customers in 37 counties in Kentucky.

Atmos Energy Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, is the country's largest natural gas-only distributor, serving about 3.2 million gas utility customers. Atmos Energy's utility operations serve more than 1,500 communities in 12 states from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West.

Atmos Energy's non-utility operations, organized under Atmos Energy Holdings, Inc., operates in 22 states. They provide natural gas marketing and procurement services to industrial, commercial and municipal customers and manage company-owned natural gas pipeline and storage assets, including one of the largest intrastate natural gas pipeline systems in Texas. Atmos Energy is a Fortune 500 company. For more information, visit www.atmosenergy.com.