Wawanesa Insurance

Wawanesa Insurance
Company typeMutual
IndustryGeneral insurance
FoundedSeptember 25, 1896; 128 years ago (1896-09-25), in Wawanesa, Manitoba
FounderAlonzo Fowler Kempton
Headquarters191 Broadway,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
,
Canada
Area served
Canada, California, Oregon
Key people
  • Jeff Goy, President and CEO
  • Kay Best, Board chair
Services
  • Increase CA$88.6 m (2020)
Total assets
  • Increase CA$11.3 b (2020)
  • Increase CA$9.5 b (2018)
Number of employees
5,900 (2020)
Subsidiaries
  • Wawanesa Life
  • Wawanesa General (USA)
  • Trimont Financial
  • Western Financial Group, Inc (through Trimont Financial)
Websitewawanesa.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

Wawanesa Insurance—officially The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company,[2] also known as Wawanesa Mutual or simply Wawanesa—is a Canadian mutual insurance firm, as well as among Canada's ten largest property and casualty insurers.[1][3]

The company's head office is located in Wawanesa, Manitoba, with its executive office in Winnipeg and regional offices across Canada; it also operates in the U.S. states of California and Oregon.[1] As of 2020, it has assets of over $11.3 billion and over two million policies in force.[4][3]

Wawanesa Insurance wholly-owns three subsidiaries: Wawanesa Life, its life insurance subsidiary; Wawanesa General, its American subsidiary; and Trimont Financial Ltd.,[5] which provides direct support to local brokers.[4] Wawanesa Insurance and its subsidiaries compose a corporate group called The Wawanesa Group of Companies.[6]

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  2. ^ "Wawanesa Insurance celebrates 125th anniversary with $700,000 donation to local community organizations". Wawanesa Insurance. Archived from the original on October 4, 2021. Retrieved October 3, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on December 16, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on October 4, 2021. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "Trimont Financial announces completion of Western Financial Group and Western Life Assurance Acquisition from Desjardins Group". Wawanesa Insurance. Archived from the original on October 4, 2021. Retrieved October 3, 2021.
  6. ^ "wawanesa-life-insurance". Archived from the original on October 4, 2021. Retrieved October 3, 2021.