Type Mutual Website sentry.com Founded 1904 | Industry Insurance & Finance Number of employees 4,500 Parent organization Sentry Insurance Pool | |
Key people Pete McPartland, President & CEO CEO Peter G. McPartland (29 Feb 2012–) Subsidiaries Dairyland Insurance Company |
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Sentry Insurance is a mutual insurance company specializing in business insurance. The company’s home office is in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where about half the company’s approximately 4,500 employees are located. Sentry offers property and casualty insurance, workers' compensation, life insurance, and other business insurance, as well as non-insurance products like annuities and retirement programs. Sentry provides specialized insurance programs to customers in specific industries as well as very large companies with complex risk.
Contents
- Sentry insurance claims claimsecrets
- Sentry insurance s journey to stevens point
- History
- Logo
- Operations
- Corporate Philanthropy
- Employee initiatives
- Sentry Insurance Foundation
- References
Sentry is one of the nation’s largest mutual insurance companies. As of December 31, 2014, the company has assets of more than $14 billion and a policyholder surplus of over $4.1 billion. Sentry was rated A+ by A.M. Best, the insurance industry’s leading rating authority, as of 2015. In 2016, Sentry Insurance was ranked 755th on the Fortune 1000 list of companies.
Sentry insurance s journey to stevens point
History
Sentry Insurance was founded in 1904 by members of the Wisconsin Retail Hardware Association, now the Midwest Hardware Association, to provide insurance for its members in the hardware industry. Its headquarters for many years was the Hardware Mutual Insurance Companies Building, built in 1922 and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Though supplanted by a new headquarters in 1977, the historic building is still in use by the company today.
The company also owns its own golf course, SentryWorld, which opened in 1982. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., it is regarded as a "destination golf course".
Logo
Sentry rebranded in 2016. A new Sentry word mark includes a symbol made up of two stylized single quote quotation marks paired up into a circle, reminiscent of the yin and yang symbol, representing two sides of a conversation. The negative space between the quote marks takes on the shape of an S. The company's previous logo was a minuteman image based on a sculpture of Capt. John Parker located in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Operations
As of December 31, 2013, Sentry had assets of $13.2 billion and a policyholder surplus of $4.1 billion. The Sentry Group of Companies serves more than 1.1 million policyholders. The company offers life, group health, auto, and other property/casualty lines. Sentry's property and casualty companies are rated A+ by A. M. Best. The Sentry group of companies includes Dairyland, Peak Property and Casualty, Viking Insurance Company of Wisconsin, and about a dozen others.
Corporate Philanthropy
Sentry Insurance supports a variety of nonprofits and educational institutions, both through employee donations and volunteerism, and through its Sentry Foundation.
Employee initiatives
Employees in the headquarters and other offices in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, have raised funds and volunteered for a number of local nonprofits. Highlights of their activities include raising the bulk of a $1 million donation for a United Way campaign in Portage County (location of Stevens Point) in 2015 and collecting and donating more than 2,600 food and household items to local food pantries in December 2015.
Sentry Insurance Foundation
The Sentry Insurance Foundation, a private grantmaking foundation in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, was established in 1995. It disbursed $3.7 million in grants in 2014. The foundation made grants of more than $7 million in technology to classrooms in Portage County, Wisconsin, between 2008 and 2015. It awarded a $4 million dollar grant to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 2016 to fund a data analytics major.