MCE Insurance wins twice at top financial services awards

MCE Insurance wins twice at top financial services awards

Wellingborough-based insurance provider MCE Insurance has won two major trophies at the UK’s leading insurance industry awards. MCE Insurance was picked out as Small Broker of the Year and won the award for Marketing Campaign of the Year at the annual Insurance Times Awards in Birmingham on 6 December.

MCE Insurance was singled out from among the UK’s 15,000 small-to-medium-sized broking firms as the most dynamic and successful company in the sector. This is a major achievement for the company, which has been based in the Northants area for 27 years. MCE (formerly known as M. C. Edwards) specialises in providing cover for motorcycles, American cars, classic vehicles, cars and household and travel policies.

The insurance industry’s equivalent of the Oscars, this year’s Insurance Times Awards attracted over 1,300 movers and shakers from the world of insurance and the financial services and was hosted by comedian Rory Bremner. MCE’s two simultaneous award wins have drawn positive attention from all sides of the insurance industry and put this highly dynamic and fast-growing Northants-based company well and truly on the map at a national level.

MCE Insurance Director Michael Edwards commented: ‘We are absolutely thrilled to win these extremely prestigious awards. The insurance business has changed enormously since MCE Insurance was formed in 1975, and I like to think MCE Insurance has been one of the more successful companies in the sector when it comes to moving with the times. Winning the small broker award is the icing on the cake of a record-breaking year for MCE Insurance. Our financial performance has improved significantly and we achieved growth of 37 per cent in 2002. At the same time we increased our policyholder numbers from 35,000 to nearly 58,000 - a superb result achieved thanks to the hard work and dedication of a highly motivated and committed team of employees.

‘The marketing campaign award recognises the major strides we have made in increasing name-awareness and promoting ourselves to a wider audience. Through a sustained and coordinated marketing campaign, we have re-branded MCE Insurance as an unquestionably modern and professional insurance provider. The number of employees based at our Wellingborough head office has risen from 52 to 85 in the last 12 months; and I would like to thank everyone for their dedicated and enthusiastic approach to providing a better service to our customers. Our present rate of growth will shortly put us outside the ‘Small Broker’ category, so here’s to winning the ‘Large Broker of the Year’ award in 2003!’