About us
A-Plan Group has a long heritage of successfully taking care of our clients. This client-first approach has been bolstered by the new capabilities and additional customer segments that acquired businesses brought to the group. Recent years have seen high acquisition activity enabling the group to achieve significant growth and build a position of strength and stability.
Howden Group Holdings Limited recently completed the acquisition of A-Plan Group. A-Plan, as one of the largest specialist insurance distribution groups in the UK, will create with Howden a new force in UK retail insurance market. The combined businesses will become one of the largest UK brokers, and the largest independent broker.
Our timeline
1963
A-Plan Established
1966
First A-Plan centre opens
1995
Assured Futures Established within the A-Plan Group
2003
50th A-Plan centre opens
2014
Majority acquisition of A-Plan by Hg
2015
Development of bolt-on M&A strategy
2016
Foundation of group data capability
2016
Investment in Vast Visibility, insurance comparison technology provider
2017
Acquisition of Endsleigh, student and education insurance specialist
2017
Acquisition of KGM Underwriting Services
2017
Investment in new digital, data and platform
2019
Acquisition of Made by Sauce, insurance specialist software company
2019
Ongoing roll-out of AI and data tools
2019
All A-Plan branches transitioned to new Applied cloud broker platform
2020
Majority acquisition of A-Plan by Hyperion Insurance Group
Our Group
Each business within the group has been carefully selected to drive synergies and to support each other. Sharing an ethos
of dedicated, customer-focused service and an ingrained culture of excellence.
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A-Plan was established in 1963, delivering ‘best in class’ service across a wide range of personal and commercial insurance products. Through its network of almost 100 local centres across the UK, A-Plan prides itself on the highly personal service it offers to the communities in which it operates. Its presence within the local community is core to the Group’s value proposition, enabling the business to better understand and service clients' needs.
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Endsleigh was established in 1965, by the National Union of Students, to champion affordable insurance designed specifically for students. Using years of expertise the range of products and services has been successfully extended from just students to young professionals and the insurance requirements of the educational institutions themselves.
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Assured Futures is a specialist Life and Health Insurance intermediary, specialising in producing bespoke solutions for partner companies and websites. Assured Futures specialises in protection based products that include Life Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Income Protection, Accident Sickness and Unemployment Cover.
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Founded in 2006, Vast Visibility offers custom-engineered software and aggregation platforms to the online price comparison marketplace. The Liverpool-based firm operates three comparison sites; the Bike Insurer, the Van Insurer and Mustard, a joint venture with Bauer Publishing. In addition, Vast provides the technology which underpins insurance price comparison on behalf of major aggregator brands in the financial services industry.
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KGM is a Managing General Agent (MGA), distributing motor insurance through intermediaries and brokers, including Endsleigh and A-Plan. KGM is a flexible and responsive MGA, with a heritage that goes back to the early 1960s.
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Made by Sauce is a forward-thinking software company, that delivers market leading solutions, consultancy and expertise to the insurance industry and beyond. The team has a wealth of experience in the insurance industry and a track record of successfully working with large blue-chip clients.
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Ingenie is a car insurance brand that offers both Learner Driver insurance and Young Driver insurance. The short-term flexible learner insurance allows policyholders to drive someone else’s car, while protecting the owner’s No Claims Discount along the way. The black box car insurance is an annual policy that rewards good drivers with discounts off their insurance 3 times a year.
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Group approach
Each entity is empowered to deliver its specialist service through the domain know-how and client knowledge they have accumulated, but underpinned by the group’s best in class systems and data, and connected where appropriate to deliver synergies.
Traditional, high-touch insurance broking methods, strongly supported by cutting edge data and technology capability.
State-of-the-art approach to data, cloud-based broker systems, advanced analytics and single customer view.
Best-in-class management team with an aligned perspective and an underlying culture of ownership and accountability.
A group structure that ensures synergies are delivered, and addresses the challenges presented to the majority of the market by regulatory change.
Working together
The combined group businesses not only enhance the existing A-Plan market proposition, but also inherit new technological capabilities which open up new opportunities to distribute specialist and standard insurance products.
- Access to new specialist customer groups.
- Incremental growth opportunities.
- Additional data and technology capabilities.
- Product and distribution diversification.
- Strategic value.