Royal and Sun Alliance

Royal and Sun Alliance have been trading for nearly 300 years and is a FSTE 100 company listed on the London Stock Exchange.

This company has operations in over 300 countries and the core group sections are UK, International and Emerging Markets. It claims the company focuses on good disciplines in both underwriting and claims procedures thus enabling them to achieve sustainable returns.

The History of Royal and Sun Alliance dates back to 1710 when the sun was established, this is the oldest insurance company that still trades under its original name. It was also in the 18th century that businesses were opened in Europe.

During the 19th century the Alliance was founded and some twenty years later the Royal was begun. It was in this century that operations in US, Canada, South America, Australia and Africa were started. They were also in China and India from 1852 to nationalisation but reopened the links in China in 1998 and India in 2000.

The 20th Century bought the merger with Liverpool and London and Globe in 1919 and in 1959 Sun merged with Alliance. It was in 1965 that the two oldest insurers got together, Sun Alliance and London.

The Royal Assurance merged with them in 1996. It was in the year 2001 that a new fresh approach to the market was made by launching MORE TH>N.

IN 2007 the company offered a tender to buy out the Codan shareholders after Codan had been delisted from the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.

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