Unipol

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Unipol Gruppo Finanziario S.p.A.
Type Società per azioni
Traded as BIT: UNI
Industry Financial services
Founded 1963
Headquarters Bologna, Italy
Key people Carlo Cimbri (CEO), Pierluigi Stefanini (Chairman)
Products Insurance, retail and corporate banking
Revenue €10.68 billion (2010)[1]
Profit €31.8 million (2010)[1]
Total assets €51.75 billion (end 2010)[1]
Total equity €4.021 billion (end 2010)[1]
Employees 7,530 (end 2010)[1]
Website www.unipolgf.it

Unipol Gruppo Finanziario S.p.A. is an Italian financial services holding operating in the insurance and banking fields, in which ranks as the country's fourth-largest firm.[2]

The insurances of the holding are UnipolSai Assicurazioni, Linear, Linear Life and UniSalute; the banks are Unipol Banca and Banca Sai.

Based in Bologna, the company was founded in 1962 as a cooperative provider of non-life insurance. After a failed takeover bid for Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in 2005,[3] Unipol saw its CEO Giovanni Consorte resign in the midst of the bancopoli scandal. Consorte was later convicted for insider trading.[4] Under Consorte's replacements Pierluigi Stefanini and Carlo Salvatori, the company underwent extensive restructuring in 2007.

Its headquarters is located in the Unipol Tower, Bologna.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Annual Report 2010". Unipol Gruppo Finanziario. Retrieved 18 November 2011. 
  2. Cinelli, Francesa (24 February 2009). "Italian Stocks: Finmeccanica, Intesa, Mediobanca, Seat, Unipol". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2009-09-06. 
  3. City, Our (6 February 2006). "BNP Paribas move on Roman bank could spark consolidation". The Times (London). Retrieved 2009-09-06. 
  4. Clark, Nick (26 October 2006). "Unipol executives jailed for insider trading". Financial News. Retrieved 2009-09-06. 

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