OMAHA, Nebraska – Tenaska Marketing Ventures and Tenaska Marketing Canada (together TMV), recently received the Mastio Quality Award for No. 1 Major Marketer in the 19th edition of Mastio & Company’s industrywide Natural Gas Marketer Customer Value / Loyalty Benchmarking Study.
TMV was ranked No. 1 Major Marketer in Mastio’s Customer Value / Loyalty Benchmarking Survey in both 2014 and 2015, with a history of ranking in the top two positions seven times since 2008.
“Tenaska has been a very consistent and high-level performer in the area of customer value,” said Kevin Huntsman, Mastio & Company’s Vice President of Sales. “Tenaska not only meets customer needs, it consistently exceeds those expectations. Based on the feedback from customers, one of the key areas that leads to this consistent level of high performance is the people at Tenaska. Tenaska employees work closely with customers and establish very collaborative relationships.”
Fred Hunzeker, president and CEO of Tenaska Marketing Group, also credited the company’s team of experienced, forward-thinking professionals for the honor.
“We’ve been in business 25 years and have seen significant changes in the market during that time,” said Hunzeker. “This No. 1 ranking demonstrates, however, that our team’s commitment to excellence and fulfilling the hard-to-meet needs of our customers has not changed.”
The 2015 Mastio study encompassed 963 interviews with natural gas producers, power generators, local distribution companies and industrial / commercial customers. Participants rated gas marketers on 31 attributes, with emphasis on honesty, trustworthiness, reliability of supply, capability of back-office personnel, the receptiveness and collaborative nature of sales representatives, overall company performance and the likeliness of recommending a supplier. Marketers with the highest overall Customer Value Weighted Quality (Benefit) Score that met a minimum of 30 ratings were divided into two categories: Major Marketer and Regional Marketer.
TMV focuses on the physical assets of the natural gas industry, utilizing pipeline delivery systems and storage infrastructure to deliver natural gas supply where and when it’s needed by its customers.
“Being independent and employee owned allows us to align with and focus on the long-term needs of the customers,” Hunzeker said. “No matter how much we grow, our strategy is to stay the course, executing our physically based business model and continuing to provide the supply chain management services needed by our customers.”
Tenaska Marketing Ventures is repeatedly ranked by Platts Gas Daily in the top 5 natural gas marketers in North America, with 2.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas sold or managed in 2015, a volume equal to 10 percent of total U.S. gas consumption. CapacityCenter.com continues to rank Tenaska among the very largest capacity release traders in the U.S.
About Tenaska Marketing Ventures
Tenaska Marketing Ventures / Tenaska Marketing Canada (TMV) is an affiliate of Omaha, Nebraska-based energy company Tenaska, one of the leading independent power producers in the U.S. Forbes magazine ranks Tenaska among the largest 25 privately held U.S. companies. TMV offers tailored solutions to meet wholesale customers’ needs for natural gas buying and selling, price hedging, asset management and supply and demand volume swing management. With regional offices in Dallas, Denver and Boston and Calgary, Alberta, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, TMV celebrates 25 years of service in 2016. For more information, visit www.tenaska.com
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