Local Access Global Reach!
By the time of his passing in 1930 Alexander
Carlisle had seen the company he founded in
a small Edinburgh office grow into a truly
global organisation.
Now represented in 39 countries worldwide
and with 5 major international centres - the
Abbey Life experience continues to grow
and serve ever more people.
When in 1968 the name was finally
shortened to "Abbey Life" the company
had a turnover of £3.2M. In the year to
Aug 1998 the annual turnover had grown
to £2,400M. We think Alexander would be
impressed. We hope that we can impress you
too with our ever increasing range of products
and services.
In the next column you may see a
reference to Abbey on the Moon! As
bizarre as it sounds this may not be pure
science fiction. Abbey provides huge
resources to research and technology
- especially the emerging technologies
of the late Twentieth Century!
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Abbey Dates
1958
Abbey Marine Ltd
1964
Pan Am cover
1968
Name change
to Abbey Life
1979
Largest UK
insurer
1987
Sale of Abbey
Properties Plc
1989
Largest EC
wide insurer
1994
Queens Award
for industry
1996
Abbey Health
goes global
1999
Abbey on
the moon?
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