The Uniqa Insurance Group AG (corporately styled "UNIQA") is one of the largest insurance groups in its core markets of Austria and Central and Eastern Europe and has approximately 40 companies in 22 countries and serve about 10.5 million customers. The corporate headquarters is located in the

Uniqa Tower The Uniqa Tower (owner's spelling: ''UNIQA Tower'') is an office building on the Danube Canal in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Vienna. The building received the European Union ''Green Building'' label. It is the first building in Austria and o ...

in Vienna, Austria and is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange.

History

Uniqa is established in 1999. In 2000, Uniqa continues its policy of expansion abroad and acquires companies in Italy, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Russia, Spain, Lithuania, Germany and Croatia. On 1 July 2011, a new management board team headed by Andreas Brandstetter takes over at the Uniqa Insurance Group. The new team develops a new growth strategy and begins to implement it. In April 2012, the Uniqa Group sells its majority interest in the German ''Mannheimer AG Holding''. In May 2013, ''Uniqa Austria'' becomes the biggest insurer in Austria with 14% market share. In October 2013, Uniqa signs an agreement with Baloise Group to acquire insurance companies in Croatia and Serbia. In March 2014, Uniqa Insurance Group AG is included in the benchmark index of the Vienna Stock Exchange (ATX). In July 2015, Uniqa resolves sale of indirect interest in ''Casinos Austria AG''. In January 2016, Uniqa launches the largest investment and innovation programme in its history amounting to around €500 million. In October 2016, the company completes the reorganisation of the Group's structure. In December 2017, Kurt Svoboda becomes

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of the ''Uniqa Österreich Versicherungen AG''. In 2018, Uniqa became the first Austrian insurance group to announce the gradual elimination of carbon-based transactions. In March 2019, Uniqa was the first insurer to be awarded with the ''OGUT Sustainability Certificate'', based on the decision to remove all investments related to

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. In November 2019, the company decided to reduce the number of management board members of the three major companies in Austria from 11 to 9. In February 2020 Uniqa acquired

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's subsidiaries in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia for 1 billion euros. The acquisition was approved by the EU-Commission in July 2020 and was completed in October 2020 ''as the largest acquisition in company history''.

Company

Uniqa Insurance Group has approximately 40 companies in 16 countries and serve about 10.5 million customers. The group is divided into ''Uniqa Austria'', ''Uniqa International'', ''Uniqa Reinsurance'' and further national companies. The corporate sponsorships include measures relating to the environment, society, culture and sports.

Key figures in Euro thousand

Management

Uniqa Insurance Group was established in 1999. It is the parent company of the ''Uniqa Group'' and acts as the central reinsurer. The group is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange. The members of the management board are Andreas Brandstetter (

), Erik Leyers (

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) and Kurt Svoboda (CFRO)

Sponsorships

The company is the sponsor of sports teams, events and organisations, including the Austria national football team,

Austrian Federal Sports Organization The Austrian Federal Sports Organization (german: Österreichische Bundes-Sportorganisation, BSO) is the Austrian Federal Government department responsible for the promotion of sport Sport pertains to any form of Competition, competitive ...

Austrian Cup The Austrian Cup (german: ÖFB-Cup), known as UNIQA ÖFB Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual football competition held by the Austrian Football Association, the ÖFB. During the 2008–09 season, Austria Wien won the tournament for 27th t ...

(football),

Uniqa Classic The Uniqa Classic was a staged cycling race held in Austria. It was created in 1953 and was part of UCI Europe Tour in 2005 as a 2.1 The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body in the sport of bicycle racing, classifies ...

(cycling),

First Vienna FC First Vienna FC is an Austrian association football club based in the Döbling district of Vienna. Established on 22 August 1894, it is the country's oldest team and has played a notable role in the history of the game there. It is familiarly k ...

(football) as well as athletes like

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(ski racer) and Bernadette Schild (ski racer). In 2017, the company was main sponsor of the Special Olympics World Winter Games. Uniqa Insurance Group supports Austrian museums, such as the Albertina,

Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum ( "Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal do ...

and

Vienna Technical Museum The Vienna Technical Museum (german: Technisches Museum Wien) is located in Vienna (Austria), in the Penzing (Vienna), Penzing district, at Mariahilferstraße 212. The decision to establish a technical museum was made in 1908, and construction of ...

as well as events like

Grafenegg Festival The Grafenegg Festival is a major international classical music festival in Grafenegg, close to Vienna, Austria. The annual festival takes place on the grounds of Grafenegg Castle. Two venues have been built particularly for the festival in the ...

and the children's and youth program of the Salzburg Festival.

Uniqa Tower

Uniqa Tower is the headquarters building of the group and was realized by architect Heinz Neumann in 2005. The 75 metre high building costs 70 million euro and is located in Vienna's district Leopoldstadt.''UNIQA Tower Austria''
retrieved: 25. July 2019 in Wittmann.at.

External links

Vienna Stock Exchange: Market Data UNIQA Insurance Group

References

{{reflist Financial services companies established in 1999 Reinsurance companies Companies based in Vienna Insurance companies of Austria Austrian brands 1999 establishments in Austria