NYSE: AV
Headquarters: Aviva plc, St Helen’s, 1 Undershaft, London, EC3P 3DQ, United Kingdom
http://www.aviva.com

Aviva is the fifth largest insurer worldwide.

2008 worldwide sales: £51.4 billion

Key Officers: Andrew Moss, Group Chief Executive, Executive Director; Chris Littlefield, Chief Executive Officer and President of Aviva USA.

Aviva has a 313-year history that goes back to the world’s first fire insurance company, Contributors for Insuring Houses, Chambers or Rooms from Loss by Fire, by Amicable Contribution, founded in London in 1696. In 1896, Winston Churchill took out a personal accident policy with the Accident Insurance Company, another company that would later become a part of Aviva.

In 1912, Aviva (under the name Commercial Union) paid out £145,723 as an insurer of the Titanic. Today the company serves over 50 million customers worldwide (about 1 million in the United States) and is one of the largest insurers in the U.K., offering life and general insurance services.

Aviva’s Street to School program teams up with children’s charities to help children living and working on the streets in India, which has the largest number of street children in the world; Istanbul, Turkey; and the United Kingdom, where over 100,000 children under the age of 16 run away from home annually.

Sources: aviva.com, avivausa.com, Hoover’s, Google Finance

Compiled by Life Quotes, Inc. staff