Royal & SunAlliance (R&SA) has appointed R3: Group to add suppliers and special offers to their youatwork (www.youatwork.co.uk) employee discounts scheme.

The youatwork online employee benefits service is available to employees in a wide range of R&SA's existing customers, including a number of the UK's largest employer groups. The total number of employees who currently have access to the service numbers over 1.2 million with the potential to increase further in coming months.

R3: will concentrate in non-financial service product areas extending the existing range of employee discounts on offer and managing the supplier relationships.

One of the key issues is to obtain customer usage information enabling more accurate targeting of offers to employees.

Rob Proudman of R3: Group: "We are delighted to be working with youatwork. This is a significant milestone in our continued effort to further expand our supplier management operations.

"We will make the partners' offers available to customers, members and employees the best in the marketplace by taking advantage of numerous economies of scale inherent in undertaking this work on behalf of a wide range of distributors."