Porto Seguro S.A.
Sociedade Anônima | |
Traded as | BM&F Bovespa: PSSA3 |
Industry | Financial Services |
Founded | 1945 |
Headquarters | São Paulo, Brazil |
Key people | Jayme Garfinkel, (CEO) |
Products | Insurance & Reinsurance |
Revenue | US$ 5.7 billion (2013) |
US$ 594.5 million (2013) | |
Total assets | US$ 8.6 billion (2013) |
Number of employees | 13,800 (2013) |
Website | www.portoseguro.com.br |
Porto Seguro is the third largest insurance company in Brazil, was funded in 1945 and has more than 13,000 employees. The company operates through its subsidiaries in Brazil and in Uruguay. It is headquartered in São Paulo.
The company offers car insurance, residential, health, life, business, consortium also offers auto and homeowners, pension, savings bonds and other financial services. Porto Seguro competes with Bradesco Seguros, BB Seguridade, SulAmérica, Mapfre, Zurich Insurance Group and others insurance and reinsurance companies in Brazil.
Porto Seguro is the leader on the auto and homeowner insurance segments in Brazil and has around 10 million clients all over the different business lines. [1]
Currently the company its owned by the Brazilian billionaire Jayme Garfinkel and the bank Itaú Unibanco, through PSIUPAR (Porto Seguro Itaú Unibanco Participações S.A.).
References
- ↑ (Porto Investors Fact Sheet | 2Q13 - PDF page 1) http://www.mzweb.com.br/portoseguro/web/download_arquivos.asp?id_arquivo=4A79E4A1-B682-45FF-B6B3-1330C211550B