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GRP Starts 2020 With Another Buy – These Guys Are Shopping Like Kardashians

Global Risk Partners (GRP) spent much of 2019 on the acquisition trail, as they snapped up brokers in various niche areas and applied their digital makeover to them. The New Year sees a continuation of […]

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Broker Buy-Outs: County Group Still Hungry Like The Wolf

GRP’s County Group Ltd (County) has acquired Bruce Edwards Jones Commercial Insurance (Bruce Edwards Jones). The deal is the fourth by County this year and comes hot on the heels of Meadons (Market Drayton) and […]

Insurance Brokers

Gallagher Buys Up Jardine Lloyd Thompson Aerospace Operations

Gallagher, a global insurance, risk management and consulting services company, today confirmed that the previously announced acquisition of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc’s (JLT) global aerospace operations was completed on 1 June, 2019. The addition of JLT’s […]

InsureTech

Opinion: Wejo Purchase of Carjojo Highlights Value of Data to Insurers

Editor Alastair Walker looks at the implications of Wejo’s acquisition of Carjojo: Recently Cheshire based start-up Wejo bought an American company called Carjojo. No, this isn’t the opening line from a bizarre limerick, but an […]

Insurance Brokers

Marine Insurance News: Thomas Miller Acquires Zeller Associates

Thomas Miller, the international provider of market leading insurance services, announces the agreement to purchase the Managing General Agency and Insurance Services operations of specialist insurance services Group, Zeller Associates. Zeller Associates is an international […]

Insurance Brokers

GRP Buys County Group as Acquisitions Continue

Global Risk Partners Ltd (GRP), the specialist investment vehicle for brokers and MGAs, has acquired The County Group. Crewe-based County Group becomes GRP’s second acquisition in 2018 and is the next major step in executing […]