Hughes & Company, the insurance broker in Northern Ireland, has announced extensive plans for 2006 to expand its branch network by 50%.
Leslie Hughes, Partner in Hughes & Company, said: “Over the years we have worked hard to build a brand in Northern Ireland which offers stability and value with local offices and local people. There are a number of key locations across the region where we plan to establish a significant presence in order to make our products more accessible to a much wider target audience.”
Mr Hughes' Partner, Jim Bowers, added: “In this local market a local presence and personal contact plays an important part in the relationship, so having a profile in the key centres of population remains very important. We are on course to announce the opening of a further three offices in the first half of 2006.”
In conjunction with their high street expansion plans Hughes & Company also expect to see internet business to grow rapidly and are currently further developing a website to provide home and travel insurance.
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