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2009 | |
Baloise has repositioned itself throughout the Group. The Safety World concept represents its commitment to make overall safety the focus of its company performance from now on: "Making you safer".
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2008 | |
Baloise is placing its German business units, Basler Versicherungen, Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG (DR Sach) and Deutscher Ring Lebensversicherungs-AG (DR Leben) under uniform management.
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2007 | |
Baloise establishes the life insurance company Baloise Life AG in Liechtenstein. The company offers investment-type life insurances in Europe.
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Baloise commences operations on the Serbian market and establishes a new subsidiary for the distribution of life and nonlife insurance products.
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Baloise acquires Croatian insurer Osiguranje Zagreb and thus ranks fifth in this upcoming market.
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Basler Securitas is renamed "Basler Versicherungen" in Germany. This reinforces the "Basler" brand impact.
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2006 | |
Bâloise Luxembourg acquires Winterthur Europe Vie, boosting its core competence in the investment-type life insurance.
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2005 | |
Deutscher Ring acquires AEGON Lebensversicherungs-AG. It thereby takes over the investment-type life insurance and pension business from MoneyMaxx.
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2004 | |
The Group's Belgian company Mercator focuses exclusively on its insurance business and sells Mercator Bank to ING Belgium.
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2003 | |
Acquisition of the German Securitas insurance company; merger with the Baloise branch in Germany to form "Basler Securitas".
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2001 | |
Fortis takes over Baloise's insurance portfolio in Spain.
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The Group's Belgian company is rebranded Mercator; its banking branch is renamed Mercator Bank.
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2000 | |
Baloise acquires Solothurner Bank SoBa, a regional Swiss bank domiciled in Solothurn, and renames it Baloise Bank SoBa.
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The Belgian Group company Mercator & Noordstar takes over HBK-Spaarbank.
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The Annual Statements 2000 are prepared under application of the International Accounting Standards (IAS) for the first time.
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The Baloise Group's strategy is reformulated and given a succinct name: integrated financial services.
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1997 | |
Sale of the equity stake in Rhein Rück to the US investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
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1996 | |
Baloise strategy: focus on key markets in Central Europe.
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Foudation of "La Bâloise Vie (Luxembourg) S.A.".
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Merger of the Belgian Baloise subsidiary Mercator with its financial services partner Noordstar to form Mercator & Noordstar. Advance to the top ten in Belgium.
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1995 | |
Baloise is the first Swiss insurer to adopt the FER guidelines (accounting and reporting recommendations) in its Annual and Half-Year Reports.
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1991 | |
Basler acquires majority stake in Rhein Rück.
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1985 | |
Expansion of international activities. Baloise is taking over several foreign insurance companies, including Deutscher Ring Life Insurance AG.
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| 1983 | |
Foundation Basler Versicherungs-Aktiengessellschaft in Austria.
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1976 | |
Foundation of Rhein Rückversicherungsgesellschaft (reinsurance).
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1971 | |
Merger of the Baloise companies to form Basler, Versicherungsgesellschaft (BVG). For regulatory reasons, Basler-Leben is not included in the merger, becoming instead a BVG subsidiary.
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1965 | |
Sale of ALBA.
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1962 | |
Foundation of Bâloise-Holding.
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1958 | |
Foundation of Basler-Unfall (formerly a business line of Basler-Leben).
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1954 | |
Basler-Rückversicherungsgesellschaft transformed into ALBA Allgemeine.
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1885 | |
Expansion of operations abroad. Baloise acquires a number of foreign insurance companies including Deutscher Ring Lebensversicherungs-AG.
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1869 | |
Foundation of Basler-Rückversicherungsgesellschaft.
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1864 | |
Foundation of Basler-Transport und Leben.
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1863 | |
Founding of the Baloise Fire Insurance Company.
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