We have always looked for ways to help people live better, healthier lives. From campaigning to eliminate tuberculosis, to providing basic health care for millions through our visiting nurse service through the early 1950s, to investing in agriculture, housing, infrastructure and businesses of all sizes, we have always been committed to creating value for the world at large.
Today, people's needs are changing faster than ever, so our 49,000 employees in over 40 countries are working harder than ever to transform our business. We aim to help our customers and partners navigate whatever changes life may bring for the next 150 years.
MetLife, Inc. is a leading global provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, MetLife holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Present in Chile since 2001, the MetLife companies offer group and individual life and health insurance products, as well as retirement savings and mortgage products. We are number one in life and annuity premiums as of September 2012, and distribute products through an agency force, bank partners, direct marketing and brokers.
Present in Colombia for more than 50 years, MetLife offers a broad portfolio of products for protection, savings and retirement. This includes individual, traditional and variable insurance as well as employee benefits, credit life, personal accident, pensions and annuities. MetLife has diverse distribution channels through professional agents, brokers, sponsors and direct marketing. We have offices in 6 main cities of the country, with more than 700 employees.
GENESIS is a ProVida AFP Chile Pension Fund Administrator, which in turn belongs to MetLife, a leading global provider of insurance, income and employee benefits programs with presence in more than 44 countries. As pioneers and leaders in the development and management of long-term funds in the country, we also offer short-term and medium-term funds, developed with technological support and within the high quality standards of the group to which we belong.
The first MetLife company in Latin America was established in Mexico in 1992, offering life insurance and retirement savings products to groups and individuals in the private market. With the acquisition of Aseguradora Hidalgo, S.A. in June of 2002, MetLife became a market leader in life insurance for government institutions in Mexico. With about 15% market share, we are presently the largest life insurer in Mexico, covering nearly 7.5 million customers (insurance) and 1.1 million customers (AFORE). We offer group and individual life insurance, medical expense insurance as well as retirement savings and investment products.
Established in 1868, MetLife is the largest life insurer in the United States based on life insurance in force. The MetLife companies offer life insurance, annuities, auto and home insurance and other financial services to individuals. We also offer group insurance and retirement and savings products and services to corporations and other institutions.
With around 1 million customers, MetLife in Bangladesh has been operating since 1952, previously known as Alico. We started our full-service branch operations in Bangladesh in 1974 and have since been selling a range of individual and group insurance products. In 1997, MetLife became the life insurance market leader, a title the company holds through present day.
Sino-US United MetLife Insurance Company Limited (MetLife) was incorporated as a joint venture company formed by a subsidiary of MetLife, Inc. and Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd (SAIL). MetLife is committed to provide trusted and professional insurance solutions to consumers in China. We offer life and accident insurance as well as savings products to individuals in over twenty cities all over China through agents, bank partners and direct marketing channels.
SAIL is a state-owned investment company affiliated with Shanghai National Capital Bureau. By fully utilizing its resources and strengths, SAIL is focused on investment in financial services and high-tech industries. SAIL is committed to promoting industry innovation and development in Shanghai, as well as national growth.
MetLife started operations in 1973 as the first foreign life player in Japan. The company offers a broad range of products including life, accident and health and asset formation products to individual and institutional customers through diverse distribution channels such as career agents, independent agents, direct marketing and banks.
MetLife Alico started operations in 2002 and is the only foreign life insurance company with a branch in Nepal. The company offers a broad range of innovative life, accident and health, employee benefit and micro-credit insurance products to individuals and institutional customers through a highly trained professional agency force and bank partners.
MetLife in Korea was first established in 1989 as a joint venture, and MetLife acquired 100% of ownership in 1998. Today we offer life, accident and health insurance and retirement saving products to individuals and companies. We were the first insurer to provide the variable universal life product in the Korea market and continue to offer innovative solutions through a highly trained professional agency force and bank partners.
Operating since 1999, MetLife is a leader in the Bulgarian life insurance market. We offer a wide variety of life insurance products, combining risk coverage and savings opportunities for individual costumers and tailor-made group employee benefits to fit the business needs of our corporate clients.
MetLife has been operating in Cyprus since 1955. We are the oldest life insurer and one of the leading companies in the Cypriot market, covering a large range of ages through individual and group insurance in the life, accident and health and pension plans sectors.
The MetLife companies have been offering life insurance solutions in France for over 40 years. Today, we offer life, creditor, protection, personal accident and health, lifestyle insurance products to consumers, self-employed and companies, through direct marketing, brokerage and partnerships
MetLife in Hungary was established in November 1990. Today we provide individual and group life insurance to over 260 companies and more than 100,000 individuals. We also offer accident and health products and services for private and corporate clients.
Established in 2002, Dublin is the functional hub for MetLife Europe Limited (MEL). MEL 's head office is located here and through the EU 's freedom of services we are permitted to operate as a 'super carrier' with subsidiaries across Europe. MetLife has no consumer business in Ireland.
In Italy MetLife companies have been providing insurance solutions to consumers and enterprises since 1994. Today, thanks to our offer including creditor protection, employee benefits, life and health insurance, we protect more than 2 million customers. We serve our customers through a multi-channel distribution network formed of bancassurance partnerships, brokers, direct marketing and other affinity distributors.
MetLife was established in Portugal in 1985. We were the first international insurance company in the country. Over time the company has grown significantly and consolidated the business to provide more benefits to customers. Our lines of business include life, accident and health insurance, employee benefits, creditor protections and retirement plan savings products, with a leading position in personal accident. Our main strength lies in our agency, bancassurance, and direct marketing distribution channels.
MetLife was established in Poland in 1990. Our brand is well recognized and holds a strong position in the Polish market. We offer a wide range of life insurance products to more than five million individual and corporate customers, private pensions and investment funds.
Alico Asigurari, Alico Pensii and Metropolitan Life Asigurari are companies affiliated with MetLife, Inc. a global leader in insurance, pension plans and employee benefit programs. Alico Asigurari and Metropolitan Life Asigurari operate under the Metropolitan Life brand. We offer a diversified range of products such as life, health and personal accident insurance as well as privately administrated pensions, especially created to cater for customers' varied needs.
MetLife Amslico has been a leading life insurer in the Slovak market since 1995. Winner of the 2012 Insurance Company of the Year award from the leading, independent financial weekly, TREND, we are recognized as an expert in providing financial solutions for over 440,000 customers.
The MetLife companies have been offering life insurance solutions in Spain since 1969. Today, we offer life, savings, accident and health insurance products through various distribution channels, such as agents, brokers, bancassurance and direct marketing.
Operating in Ukraine since 2002, MetLife is a market leader, serving over 565,000 customers and offering a wide range of life insurance products for individual and corporate clients, including credit life and personal accident insurance, savings and investment.
The MetLife companies offer creditor, personal accident and critical illness insurance products, as well as retirement and long-term savings solutions to consumers in the United Kingdom and other countries in the European Union.
MetLife has been operating in Bahrain since 1961 and has been providing the residents of the Kingdom of Bahrain with a range of individual and group insurance products through agents, brokers, banks and direct channels.
MetLife was established in Egypt in 1997. We are the first life insurance company to enter the Egyptian market with a major shareholding by an international life insurance company. Throughout our history, we have continuously sought to nurture talent, respect local cultures and promote the diversity that characterizes the Egyptian society. Weve grown by understanding the needs at the heart of the community and by tailoring, through agents, banks, brokers and direct channels, our extensive product offering to the unique needs of individuals, families and businesses of all sizes.
In 1958, MetLife opened its first branch office in Amman and thereby pioneered the issuance of life insurance products in Jordan. In 1996, MetLife expanded operations into PNA, becoming the only international insurer in both locations. Today, we are positioned as one of the leading providers of individual and group life, health, personal accident, and medical insurance products in both markets.
MetLife arrived in the UAE in 1962 as the first company to be granted an insurance license and has been providing the residents of the UAE with a range of individual and group Insurance products through agents, brokers, banks and direct channels.