cleanup to meet wikipedia s quality standards . no cleanup reason has been specified . please help improve this article if you can . september 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message choicequote insurance services type limited company industry finance and insurance founded 1995 headquarters liverpool united kingdom key people cathie bruce managing director products financial services parent groupama insurances website www.choicequote.co.uk choicequote insurance services is part of the gan uk group the uk broker division of groupama insurances . choicequote currently employs around 70 staff at its head office in liverpool with other branches in manchester and glasgow . history edit this section contains embedded lists that may be better presented using prose . you can help by converting the list or lists to prose if appropriate . editing help is available . may 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message 1995 phil catterall purchased a small personal lines insurance broker with a premium income of 1.5 m located in manchester england and executed a business plan to focus on niche non standard motor insurance with initial emphasis on taxis and motor trade road risks . expanded into liverpool by opening a new office . 1996 relationship established with mma insurance plc mma to co develop products and provide the majority of their capacity . introduced motor trade road risks . 1998 strategic co operation initiated with equity red star one of lloyd s of london personal lines syndicates . 2000 first broker to launch website with buy online motorcycle insurance quote engine . 2004 first broker to launch online taxi insurance quote engine . 2005 diversified product offering by moving into commercial vehicle insurance . in house development team recruited to create bespoke online quote engines point of sale branded products and aggregator integration technology . equity motor trade road risk underwriting authority granted . 2006 it platform created in conjunction with ssp to provide backbone for major policy count growth . 2007 standard and non standard private car insurance introduced as part of its direct offering . invested in new telephony system contact centre software and dialer to help drive efficiencies and growth . opened satellite sales offices in birmingham and glasgow to provide field risk selection intelligence for regional taxi and fleet sales . took non standard car product live with aggregators uswitch.com confused.com gocompare.com and moneysupermarket.com . exclusive arrangements with an insurer agreed in order to deliver non standard products online . 2008 private car panel expansion initiated with several major insurers . acquired by groupama uk . cathie bruce appointed as managing director . 2009 a new taxi insurance office opened in glasgow s pacific quay in september 2009 . references edit groupama uk news external links edit the choicequote website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title choicequote insurance services & oldid 610230760 categories insurance companies of the united kingdomcompanies established in 1995hidden categories articles needing cleanup from september 2008all articles needing cleanupcleanup tagged articles without a reason field from september 2008wikipedia pages needing cleanup from september 2008articles needing cleanup from may 2013all pages needing cleanuparticles with sections that need to be turned into prose from may 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 26 may 2014 at 17 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view