Main activities
ERGO Group is one of the largest German insurance companies. Its activities include life insurance, health insurance, non-life and casualty insurance, legal expenses insurance, travel insurance, and financial services. The main activities of the group focus on private clients, company pension schemes, and medium-sized business. In Europe, ERGO is the first in health and legal expenses insurance; in its home market Germany ERGO claims to belong to the market leaders in all lines of business. The company consists of: * D.A.S. * * ERGO Life Insurance (formerly Hamburg-Mannheimer) * ERGO Insurance (formerly Victoria) * Vereinsbank Victoria Bauspar * Europäische Reiseversicherung AG (ERV) * ERGO Direkt Versicherungen (formerly KarstadtQuelle Versicherungen) * MEAG - Munich Ergo AssetManagement (capital investment company of ERGO) * Vorsorge Lebensversicherung AG * ITERGO (IT services provider of Ergo) Outside of Germany, ERGO Group operates in over 30 countries. The foreign participations are mostly bundled in ERGO International AG. ERGO is mostly active in Southern, Middle and Eastern Europe and Asia. ERGO Group changed the structure of its group in late 2010 to offer non-life and life insurances in Germany under the ERGO brand. The direct insurer KarstadtQuelle Versicherungen was renamed ERGO Direkt Versicherungen, health insurance was consolidated under the trademark DKV, and legal expenses insurance was put under the trademark D.A.S. The trademark ERV will remain in business for travel insurance. The trademarks Victoria and Hamburg-Mannheimer were removed from the market.History
ERGO Group AG came into being at the end of 1997 by the fusion ofShare capital
On the balance sheet day December 31, 2006 the share capital of ERGO Group AG totaled €192,279,504.20, divided in 75,492,117 bearer shares 2.60 € each. The shares of ERGO Group AG are listed on the stock exchange under WKN 841852 and ISIN DE0008418526. 94.7% (since November 25, 2009 99.69% with the purpose to raise the participation to 100% by means of the so-called squeeze out) of the shares belong to Munich Re.References
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