{"id":238866,"date":"2022-10-03T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=122323"},"modified":"2022-10-03T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:38:22","slug":"clientele-celebrates-30-years-of-growth-through-industry-leading-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/clientele-celebrates-30-years-of-growth-through-industry-leading-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Client\u00e8le celebrates 30 years of growth through industry leading innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1 \">\n<aside id=\"republication_tracker_tool-2\" class=\"republication_tracker_tool clearfix\">\n<h5 class=\"adtitle\">Republish for Free<\/h5>\n<div class=\"license\">\n<p><button name=\"Republish This Story\" id=\"cc-btn\" class=\"republication-tracker-tool-button\">Republish This Story<\/button><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"license\" rel=\"noreferrer license noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/clientele-celebrates-30-years-of-growth-through-industry-leading-innovation.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/clientele-celebrates-30-years-of-growth-through-industry-leading-innovation.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"message\">\n<p>Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>30 years later, with more than 580 000 life policies and over 350 000 funeral policies in place, Client\u00e8le has grown to the point that the group now has an embedded value of around R6 billion, which provides a strong foundation on which to build its organisation to even greater heights going forward.<\/p>\n<p>As clientele celebrates its 30th birthday, it reflects on its inception when Bruce Howard and Brian Benfield established the company in 1992, knowing that South Africa\u2019s first direct distributor of life insurance products was destined for big things.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the release below to find out more about the company\u2019s success. If you would like to schedule an interview, please let me know and I\u2019ll happily arrange it.<\/p>\n<p>Client\u00e8le celebrates 30 years of growth through industry leading innovation and compassionate customer focus<\/p>\n<p>28 September 2022 \u2013 When Bruce Howard and Brian Benfield established Client\u00e8le Financial Services in 1992, they knew South Africa\u2019s first direct distributor of life insurance products was destined for big things. But it\u2019s unlikely that they had any idea of just how big their business would become, or what a significant positive impact it would have on the lives of millions of South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Three decades later, Client\u00e8le Limited is the fastest growing Life Office in South Africa and the group has evolved into one of the country\u2019s most loved and respected diversified financial services brands. According to Group Managing Director, Basil Reekie, that stellar growth has been the direct result of Client\u00e8le\u2019s innovation-led solutions backed by an unwavering commitment to sincere care for its customers\u2019 wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Client\u00e8le is still a relatively young financial services organisation by comparison to some of our competitors, we are immensely proud of the achievements we have made over the past 30 years,\u201d Reekie says, \u201cand even more so of the positive impact we have had on the lives of our steadily growing base of loyal and trusting customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reekie says that it\u2019s this unique combination of innovation and genuine care that has enabled Client\u00e8le to grow from a business with a handful of staff selling its Lasting Dignity Plan via a call centre and direct mail, to a diversified financial services provider with more than 580 000 life policies and over 350 000 funeral policies in place.<\/p>\n<p>But Reekie is quick to point out that Client\u00e8le doesn\u2019t measure its success in terms of the number of policies it has sold, but rather in the positive difference it continues to make in the lives of its customers, employees and shareholders. \u201cWe are very proud of the fact that our customers know they can rely on us to be there for them in their times of need,\u201d he explains,\u201d as evidenced by the roughly R5 billion in claims and encashments we have paid out over the past 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Client\u00e8le business model has also proven to be highly resilient over the years, allowing the business to provide its employees with more than R6 billion in salaries, benefits and awards, and pay out over R4.45 billion in dividends. It has even had a positive impact on the futures of more than 130 young South Africans thanks to the R10 million it has provided in funding for tertiary studies through its Client\u00e8le bursary scheme.<\/p>\n<p>And Client\u00e8le hasn\u2019t only made a positive difference to individuals and families across South Africa, the group has also contributed to the success of the thousands of independent financial advisors that it sees as indispensable business partners. Since the business created its IFA Business Opportunity programme, it has paid almost R3 billion in earnings, bonuses and awards to its growing network of financial advisory partners.<\/p>\n<p>Reekie is adamant that this is only the beginning for Client\u00e8le. \u201cOver the years, we have enjoyed steady industry recognition and managed to rack up an impressive number of firsts \u2013 from being the first insurer in SA to distribute products via network marketing, to being one of the first insurers in the country to waive waiting periods on funeral claims during the Covid-19 pandemic,\u201d he points out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 30 short years, Client\u00e8le has grown to the point that our group now has an embedded value of around R6 billion, which provides us with a strong foundation on which to build our organisation to even greater heights going forward,\u201d Reekie says, \u201cand with the continued passion and commitment of our dedicated employees and advisers, and the ongoing loyalty and trust of our fast-growing customer base, we are confident that there is no limit to what we will achieve over the next 30 years and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mypr.co.za\/contact\/featured\/\">CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"><\/span> <span class=\"post-views-label\">Press Release Views since 1 July 2022:<\/span> <span class=\"post-views-count\">64<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-pagination pagination\">Pages: <span class=\"post-page-numbers current\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>1<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/clientele-celebrates-30-years-of-growth-through-industry-leading-innovation\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>2<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\">Source: MyPR.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republish for Free Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. 30 years later, with more than 580 000 life policies and over 350 000 funeral policies in place, Client\u00e8le has grown to the point that the group now has an embedded value of around R6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9021,1],"tags":[3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-238866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mypr","8":"category-south-africa","9":"tag-mypr","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/clientele-celebrates-30-years-of-growth-through-industry-leading-innovation.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}