January 10, 2008

People's United Financial, Inc. 4th Quarter 2007 Earnings Conference Call Scheduled for Friday, January 18, 2008

BRIDGEPORT, CONN. - People's United Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBCT) announced today it will host a conference call on Friday, January 18, 2008, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss its fourth quarter 2007 earnings announcement. People's United Financial will release its fourth quarter financial results on Thursday, January 17, 2008 after 4 p.m. Eastern Time.

The call will be broadcast live through the company's Internet site, peoples.com. It is accessible by selecting "Investor Relations" in the "About People's United" section on the home page, and then selecting "Conference Calls" in the "News and Events" section.

The call will be archived on the site and available for retrieval for approximately 90 days.

People's United Financial, a diversified financial services company with approximately $21 billion in assets, provides consumer and commercial banking services through a network of more than 300 branches in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and New York. Through its subsidiaries, People's United Financial provides equipment financing, asset management, brokerage and financial advisory services, and insurance services.