Aksigorta A.S. was established on April 28, 1960, with its administration in Adana and business center in Istanbul, in order to serve Sabanci Group's companies. Today with its regional offices in Izmir, Adana, Ankara, Trabzon and Bursa, representative offices in Istanbul European Side, Istanbul Asian Side, Antalya, Denizli, Diyarbakir and Samsun, and with a network consisting of Akbank branch offices and independent agents throughout the country, Aksigorta is one of the leading companies in insurance sector with its increasing market share in non-life branches.
Aksigorta united its administration and business center in its building in Istanbul Istiklal caddesi on November 20, 1961, and put Izmir Regional Office into service in 1970 and then Ankara Regional Office in 1985, Adana Regional Office in 1986.
Aksigorta was the first company realizing "Bank - Insurance" in 1981.
First online policy was issued in 1983. These innovations were followed by the online connections to all regional offices in 1989.
On November 1994 Aksigorta realized a very successful 'public offering' and today nearly 38% of its shares are in transaction in
Istanbul Stock Exchange.
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Minerva Han
Karaköy, ISTANBUL |
Aksigorta Headquarter
Fındıklı, ISTANBUL |
Aksigorta, at the end of 1995, has moved from its historical Minerva Han Building in Karaköy to former Akbank Head Office Building in Findikli which was redecorated for a modern working environment.
The first (Annual) Painting Contest was held in 1995 for primary school students. In the following years, the Contest was held in Istanbul, Izmir, Sanliurfa, Eskisehir, Samsun, Antalya, Kocaeli, Hatay, Denizli and Bursa. In each contest the first three participants and their schools were given various rewards and plaques.
In October 1996, Aksigorta opened The Fire and Earthquake Simulation Center being first and only in Turkey and one of few such centers in the world. The center was built solely with Turkish technology in the framework of "Investment for the Future" project. Nearly 40.000 students were given education in the Center since then.
In 1996, Trabzon Regional Office was opened and restructuring process of regional representative offices has begun.
Same year, with newly introduced "Human Resources Project", Aksigorta has passed on to the performance management and career planning system.
In 1996, outstanding changes in the IT infrastructure were made and all the projects were renewed.
In 1998 for the first time in Turkey, with the "Bankassurance Project", Aksigorta started to issue policies online. Same year, online connection with almost 150 agents was enabled.
Same year, Aksigorta was entitled to receive ISO-9001 quality certificate. The certificate was renewed according to ISO 9001:2000 version in 2001.
In 1999 with the "Agents Project", in order to achieve more efficient insurance transactions, the agents started to use new software package developed by company resources.
IVR system has become operational in 2001.
In 2002, a new representative office was established in Bursa.
In 2002, the Company Web Site was revamped and all interactive web applications were renewed.
Same year, policies of Health branch were started to be issued.
In the last quarter of 2002, "Call Center" has become operational, providing various services from loss file details to price quotations.
In 2003, Bursa Regional Office was established.
Istanbul 1, Istanbul 2, Istanbul 3 and
Corporate Regional Offices were established in 2004. |