AXA SA is a French multinational insurance company headquartered in Paris, formed through a series of mergers of French mutual insurers beginning in the 1980s under Claude Bebear, who consolidated them under the AXA name, chosen as a short, easily pronounced word carrying no specific meaning in any language. It grew through further international acquisitions into one of the world's largest insurance companies, operating across life insurance, property and casualty insurance and asset management.
Facts
Company TypeFrench multinational insurance company 1 Founded Year Headquarters Connections
Operates In
A major insurance company; classified in the atlas insurance-industry.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia, AXA
Wikipedialead section, paragraph 1
AXA S.A. (styled AXA) is a French multinational insurance company whose registered office is in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
lead section, founding sentence
The company grew out of a small mutual insurance society set up at Rouen, in Normandy, in 1817 to insure against fire.
infobox, Headquarters field
Hôtel de La Vaupalière, 25 Avenue Matignon, Paris, France
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