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Swinton Insurance is a UK insurance retailer that was established in 1957.〔(Swinton Insurance Page on their formation and history )〕 It has 300+ branches across the United Kingdom and in excess of 4,000 employees.〔(Swinton staff and Branch numbers )〕 The company offers a range of insurance products from a panel of UK insurers covering car, bike, home, commercial, taxi and caravan insurance.〔(Swinton Insurance Product Offering from Bloomberg's Company Profile )〕 ==History== Swinton was founded in 1957 by Ken Scowcroft (born 1928〔(Kenneth Scowcroft year of birth )〕) who began the car insurance brokerage business from the front room of his semi-detached house in Swinton, Salford.〔(Guardian article on Brian Scowcroft the son of Kenneth Scowcroft )〕 The first premium cost just over £5, and in the first year he sold around 100 policies to local people.〔(Swinton History and cost of original insurance policy and amount sold )〕 The first Swinton Branch was opened in 1964 in Salford and the branch network originally expanded in the Manchester region before then expanding out to the North West of England.〔(History of Swinton Insurance from The Guardian June 2004 )〕 Swinton Insurance was then merged with Denbury Insurance owned by Brian Blake, retaining the Swinton Insurance name. The company became the first insurance franchise and the first to introduce a computer quotations system that is now common amongst major UK insurers.〔(MEN article on the history of Swinton Insurance )〕 In 1981 Ken Scowcroft's son, Brian Scowcroft, joined the business and worked in a number of different roles including Finance Director 〔(Link to information on Brian Scowcroft )〕 before being appointed Joint Chief Executive in 1985.〔(The Guardian Interview with Brian Scowcroft )〕 In 1988 Swinton was sold to Sun Alliance 〔(Swinton's sale to Sun Alliance headed by Brian Blake )〕 for £130m 〔(Evening News confirmation of Swinton Sale figure )〕 and in 2001 it changed hands again when it was acquired by MMA Holdings UK Plc.〔(Acquisition of Swinton Insurance in 2001 by MMA )〕 The sale of Swinton Insurance to MMA resulted in a significant loss for Sun Alliance's successor Royal & Sun Alliance with reports stating the sales figure being £54m.〔(Swinton Insurance sale figure to MMA )〕 In 2002, The Swinton Insurance Group acquired the specialist caravan and motorhome insurer, Safeguard,〔(Swinton Insurance details of Safeguard acquisition )〕 and then in 2004 they acquired Manchester based insurance group Deansgate Insurance.〔(Manchester Evening News report on acquisition of Deansgate Insurance )〕 By 2008, Swinton had become the third largest insurance retailer in the UK, and the largest in Northern Ireland, managing over three million individual car, home and life insurance policies.〔(Details of Swinton's growth by 2008 )〕 Their position in the Northern Ireland market was further bolstered with the acquisition of Open + Direct in 2009.〔(Details of Swinton acquiring Open + Direct Insurance )〕 The Swinton Insurance Group continued their UK-wide acquisition strategy in 2012 with the purchase of Greys Insurance in Burnley.〔(Swinton Insurance acquire Greys Insurance )〕 In 2013, they then purchased Stroud based insurers Alexander James Commercial 〔(Acquisition of Alexander James Insurance )〕 before agreeing a deal to buy the general insurance book of North Wales-based Anderson Insurance Services in 2014〔(Swinton Insurance Acquisition of Anderson Insurance Services )〕 and the Cleethorpes based C H Turner Insurance Consultants.〔(Acquisition of CH Turner in Cleethorpes )〕 Chief Executive Christophe Bardet stepped down at the end of December 2014 and was succeeded by Gilles Normand, formerly the CEO of MMA Holdings UK Plc.〔(Insurance Age article on new CEO appointment at Swinton Insurance )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swinton Insurance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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