SOCCEREX AND LOCKTON PARTNER AT CONVENTION
Lockton Goes Global at Soccerex
Lockton recently attended the Soccerex convention in South Africa forging new business partnerships and meeting and greeting the world’s soccer royalty including World Cup legends such as Carlos Alberto Torres, Eusebio, Ruud Gullit, Bryan Robson, scorer of the competition’s quickest recorded goal, and Phil Thompson and Franz Beckenbauer who both visited and spent time at the Lockton stand.
Insurance Times covered the events in this Dec. 22 story.
Lockton Chairman Mike Hammond said: “Lockton is very much taking a leadership position in its capacity as sole Global Insurance Partner with Soccerex, as our experience at the convention proves. Lockton had tremendous global exposure appearing on the main evening news across all 4 continents including the BBC in the UK. As the world’s largest independent insurance broker Lockton now competes for business with the biggest players in the insurance broking market, confident that our ability and teamwork can be a winning combination for clients.
The next 2010 Soccerex Forum will be held in Manchester at the Conference Centre on the 2nd and 3rd March, with a further forum taking place in Singapore in July 2010 and the main convention being held in Rio de Janeiro in November 2010.
Lockton’s team in South Africa included: Larry Spurgeon, Michael Owen, Stephen Akers, Chris Brown, Paul Jack and Sarah Horler.
The picture attached of noted football luminaries Gerard Houllier and David Dein, pictured underneath the Lockton logo during a panel sessions shows that Lockton is now truly on a global stage.
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Read more in the full story in Insurance Times.