QBE Insurance
| QBE Insurance Group Ltd.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | AU000000QBE9 |
| founding | 1973 |
| Seat | Sydney , Australia |
| management | Frank O'Halloran ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 13,000 |
| sales | 15951000000 AUD (2008) |
| Branch | Insurance |
| Website | group.qbe.com |
QBE Insurance is an Australian company headquartered in Sydney . The company is listed in the S & P / ASX 50 share index.
QBE Insurance was formed in 1973 from the merger of the Australian companies Queensland Insurance, Bankers 'and Traders' Insurance Company and The Equitable Probate and General Insurance Company; the abbreviation QBE contains a letter for each of the three companies. The company offers various types of insurance to its clients mainly in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
Company history
The Winterthur- US insurance branch, which went to the French Axa group in June 2006 , was resold to QBE Insurance in 2007 and will lead to the disappearance of the traditional name "Winterthur". The transaction amounts to 1.156 billion US dollars (2.2 billion Swiss francs). Winterthur US, which is active in real estate and liability insurance, achieved premium income of 1.48 billion US dollars and 81 million in net profit in 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ group.qbe.com: Financial Report 2008 ( Memento of the original dated May 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ tagesanzeiger.ch: Winterthur: US business sold
