7. Credit Suisse

GWP less treaty: £1.8bn

Churchill Insurance Company

Address:
Churchill Court
Westmoreland Road
Bromley
Kent BR1 1DP

Telephone: 020 8313 3030

Fax: 020 8313 5361

Email: info@churchill.com

Website:

Year established: 1989

Major shareholders: Winterthur Swiss Insurance

Number of UK offices: 55

Number of UK employees (2002): 8,000

Main lines of business: General insurance - personal lines and commercial.

Subsidiaries: National Insurance and Guarantee (NIG), Devitt Insurance Services Limited and Inter Group Insurance Services.

Company history: Churchill was launched in 1989 with the backing of Winterthur Insurance, now part of the Credit Suisse Group.

The Churchill Group's subsidiaries give the group multi-channel distribution covering a wide range of general insurance markets. Strategic alliances with blue chip companies such as Prudential General Insurance, Nationwide Building Society, AMP Pearl, Lloyds TSB, Royal London, Alliance & Leicester and Standard Life Bank have positioned Churchill as the industry's leading outsourcing company. Churchill is also represented on many of the UK's largest personal lines broker panels.

In September 2003 the Royal Bank of Scotland finalised the purchase of The Churchill Group from Credit Suisse.

Chief officer: Martin Long, chairman and chief executive

National Insurance and Guarantee Corporation Ltd (NIG)

Address:
Crown House
145 City Road
London, EC1V 1LP.

NIG is part of the Churchill Group of companies

Main lines of business: Products protecting motor cars and vans, motorcycles, homes and businesses.