Interlife hosts Eureko conference in Cyprus

Chairman to give awards to ‘best insurers’ of Europe

 

Interlife Insurance Company is hosting the first European insurance conference in Paphos this week for the ten European members of the Eureko BV Group, a Top 20 European insurer.

More than 350 delegates from the member companies are taking part in the three-day conference that will culminate on Friday with the presentation of the ‘best insurer’ awards to each company to be handed by the President of Eureko BV, Maarten Dijkshoorn.

The host of the event, Interlife CEO Michalis Michaelides, told the Financial Mirror that “this is the greatest honour and the biggest event for our company ever since it became a member of the Eureko Group in 2003.”

Senior executives from the Group and other insurance experts will address the conference where new strategies, services and products will be discussed.

This is the second time that the Eureko president is visiting Cyprus this year.

In June Maarten Dijkshoorn visited the head offices of its subsidiary insurance company in Nicosia, InterLife.

Dijkshoorn’s two-day visit was part of a corporate road show to call on all Eureko Group companies outside the Netherlands.

During his visit to Cyprus, he had the opportunity to discuss with local management the challenges and development opportunities present in the Cyprus insurance market.

 

— Eureko CEOs meet

 

The Chief Executive Officers of all the Eureko operating companies are also meeting in Paphos on the sidelines of the Group’s first European conference for their regular six-monthly CEOs’ meeting.

The main discussion point on the agenda revolved around the analysis of the strategic course of action for the whole Group for the period 2008-2010.

InterLife Insurance Co. Ltd, has been a member of the Eureko Group since 2003 and is one of the group companies operating in the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, France, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Slovakia.

Eureko has international leadership positions in bancassurance, brokers’, agents’ and direct writing distribution channels and provides a full range of life, non-life and health insurance products and services, with future potential in health, motor and reinsurance business. The company believes that the upcoming European pensions law reform will be an important driver for future growth.

Its growth strategy is focused on the potential that lies within central and eastern Europe and the Balkans.