GWP less treaty: £1.8bn
Allianz Cornhill Insurance plc
Address:
57 Ladymead
Guildford
Surrey GU1 1DB
Telephone: 01483 568161
Fax: 01483 300952
Website:
Year established: 1905
Major shareholders: Allianz AG
Number of UK offices: 22
Number of UK employees (2002): 4,500
GWP less treaty: £1.8bn
Allianz Cornhill Insurance plc
Address:
57 Ladymead
Guildford
Surrey GU1 1DB
Telephone: 01483 568161
Fax: 01483 300952
Website:
Year established: 1905
Major shareholders: Allianz AG
Number of UK offices: 22
Number of UK employees (2002): 4,500
Main lines of business: Commercial, personal and speciality
Subsidiaries: British Reserve Ins Co Ltd; DBI Ins Co Ltd; Domestic Ins Services Ltd; Pet Plan Ltd; Trafalgar Insurance plc
Company history:
1905 - Cornhill Insurance is founded by directors of Willis Faber as a fire insurance company.
1912 - Cornhill Insurance enters the marine insurance market.
1919 - Cornhill offers a personal accident product for the first time, a workman's compensation policy.
1924 - Cornhill issues its first motor insurance policy.
1943 - Thomas Tilling acquires a majority interest in Cornhill Insurance.
1953 - Cornhill's country head office opens in Guildford.
1957 - Cornhill pioneers the free 50% no claims discount (NCD) for motor policyholders.
1967 - Cornhill's life division opens for business.
1973 - Thomas Tilling acquires the remaining shares in Cornhill Insurance.
1974 - Cornhill acquires Trafalgar Insurance.
1978 - Cornhill sponsors its first Test cricket match in England.
1983 - BTR buys Cornhill from Thomas Tilling.
1986 - BTR sells Cornhill to Allianz AG.
1987 - Cornhill Insurance buys British Reserve.
1995 - Cornhill Insurance launches Cornhill Direct.
1996 - Cornhill Insurance buys Petplan and acquires engineering insurer Ajax from Norwich Union.
1997 - Allianz Cornhill Engineering formed following the merger of Cornhill's Engineering operations and Ajax.
1997 - Broker Direct launched.
1997 - Twenty years of Cornhill Test matches.
1998 - Cornhill acquires AGF Insurance business in Britain following Allianz's acquisition of majority shareholding in the French insurer AGF.
1999 - Cornhill acquires DBI.
2000 - Cornhill withdraws from the sponsorship of English Test cricket after 23 years.
2003 - Cornhill Insurance changes its name to Allianz Cornhill Insurance plc
Chief officer: Andrew Torrance.
