Client view: chartered an attractive status

Ms Paulie, commercial and export manager at the Lincoln-based company, told Insurance Age: "You have almost got a guarantee that you will get the professionalism. It gives you the added confidence in the standard of their capabilities."

She added: "Chartered to me is quite an attractive status to have."

The firm, which supplies spare parts for gas turbines and is a partner with Siemens to service their mature engines, has worked with Cowens for approaching three years.

In this time it has used