Whether promoting our brand name before St. Louis Blues Hockey fans (above) or serving Schnucks Markets, Inc. stores (bottom), Ameren focuses on quality. For Schnucks Markets, like this handsome superstore in Richmond Heights, Mo., AmerenUE offers services that range from maintenance of distribution equipment to energy management advice. And for the Schnucks' dairy, the company offers Ameren Abacus, which allows Schnucks' management to closely monitor energy use within each building, department or production process and to receive usage reports via the Internet. In another initiative, AmerenUE installed its 1.2 millionth automated meter in 1999 to create the world's largest network meter system. Using that system as a springboard, Ameren in 1999 acquired the California-based Data and Metering Specialties, Inc., to create a multi-state metering company - now called AmerenDMS.