Generali announces Preliminary Results 2008

Rome, 4 February 2009. At a meeting  chaired by Antoine Bernheim, the Board of Directors of Assicurazioni Generali examined premium figures for 2008. Generali closed 2008 with aggregate direct premiums up 4.1% (+1.4% on a like-for-like basis) to € 67,447 million (€ 64,792 million at 2007 year-end), confirming its capacity for growth in a year when the insurance markets began to feel the impact of an economic and financial crisis of an exceptional nature. The factors driving Generali’s progress in 2008 were greater geographical diversification and a multichannel distribution strategy focused in particular on proprietary networks. Click Here To View Press Release. Click Here To View Press Release