Q&A: Seventeen Group CEO, Paul Anscombe
The boss of Seventeen Group, Paul Anscombe, tells Insurance Age about getting to 10 deals this year, the firm’s national reach and how innovation and specialisms are helping deliver organic growth at a business that has its eyes fixed on long-term independence.
Q: You opened an office in Exeter this month, taking your total in the region to four. Are there any parts of the country where your footprint is too light?We’re pretty well covered – except for Wales. It was never particularly a plan to be represented in every city. But as we’ve evolved with acquisition opportunities over our 40-year journey, we are now largely across the UK.
What we’re not going to do is run around Europe with a chequebook and buy businesses that might be starting to get
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