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Brown & Brown, Arch Insurance Announce Liability Program

Jun 7 2005 // Brown & Brown Public Entity Services, a division of Program Management Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., of Lake Mary, Fla. has announced a nationwide program agreement with the Arch Insurance...

SECOND THOUGHTS: Tales of demergers, detours and determination

May 9 2005 // Crying?? There’s no crying in baseball. — Tom Hanks in A League of Their OwnBill Cadenhead had decided to sell his 73 percent stake in Cadenhead Shreffler Insurance in Bedford, Tex. to insurance giant Brown...

Brown & Brown Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend

Apr 21 2005 // Brown & Brown Inc., with headquarters in Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. has announced that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.08 per share. The dividend is payable on May 19,...

Brown & Brown Reports 18.4% Gain in Q1 Net Income

Apr 19 2005 // Florida-based Brown & Brown announced a new record for its net income and net income per share in the first quarter. Net income per share for the quarter ended March 31, 2005 was $0.62, an increase of 17% over the...

Brown & Brown Acquires Emerald Benefits Inc.

Feb 14 2005 // Brown & Brown Inc., with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Fla. has announced the acquisition of retail insurance agency Emerald Benefits Inc. of Weston, Fla.Emerald Benefits, with annualized revenues of approximately...

Brown & Brown Agrees to Acquire Hull & Co.

Feb 11 2005 // The signing of a definitive agreement for Brown & Brown Inc. to acquire the assets of Hull & Company Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and its certain affiliated companies has been announced jointly by J. Hyatt...

Brown & Brown’s 2004 Results Set Record Levels

Feb 10 2005 // Brown & Brown, Inc. with offices in Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. announced record earnings for 2004, the 12th consecutive year the company has hit record highs in both revenues and net income. Net income for 2004...

Brown & Brown Names Northeastern Execs

Jan 20 2005 // Flordia-based Brown & Brown, Inc.announced that Thomas E. Riley has been elected as regional president, responsible for the company’s operations in the Northeastern U.S., as well as certain offices in south...

Brown & Brown Elects Regional Officers

Jan 20 2005 // The board of directors of Brown & Brown Inc. of Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. announced today that Thomas E. Riley has been elected regional president, responsible for operations in the Northeastern U.S., as well as...

Brown & Brown Inc. Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

Jan 19 2005 // The board of directors of Brown & Brown, Inc. of Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.08 per share. The dividend is payable on Feb. 16, 2005, to shareholders of record on...

Brown & Brown, Inc. Acquires Assets of Braishfield Assoc. in Orlando

Jan 14 2005 // The acquisition of substantially all of the assets related to the commercial business, including program and wholesale brokerage business of the Orlando, Fla. operations of Braishfield Assoc. Inc. has been acquired by...

Brown & Brown Acquires ECC Brokers

Jan 14 2005 // ECC Insurance Brokers LLC of Oak Brook, Ill. has been acquired by Brown & Brown Inc. with headquarters Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. ECC has combined annualized revenues of approximately $3.9 million. This wholesale...

Ocala, Fla. Branch of USI Holdings Corp. Acquired by Brown & Brown

Jan 5 2005 // Brown & Brown (NYSE:BRO) of Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. has announced it has acquired the Ocala, Fla. Branch office of the Florida subsidiary of USI Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ:USIH). The acquisition was jointly...

Brown & Brown Completes American Specialty Companies Acquisition

Jan 4 2005 // Brown & Brown Inc. (NYSE: BRO), with offices in Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. and American Specialty Companies, Inc., of Roanoke, Indiana, today announced the consummation of the previously announced asset acquisition...

Fla.-Based Brown & Brown Acquiring American Specialty

Dec 28 2004 // Brown & Brown Inc. has announced an agreement to acquire the assets of American Specialty Cos. Inc. of Roanoke, Ind., for an undisclosed amount. The company has about $13 million in annual revenue.The deal...

Brown & Brown Acquires C.F. Lake Co.

Dec 17 2004 // Brown & Brown Inc. of Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. has announced it has acquired C.F. Lake Limited doing business as C.F. Lake & Company of Minneapolis, Minn. C. F. Lake & Company is a retail property and...

Fla. Investigation: Brown & Brown Says It Carefully Monitors Brokers

Nov 10 2004 // Brown & Brown Inc. is confident that twin investigations of the insurance industry by Florida officials will reveal no wrongdoing by the Daytona Beach-based company or its brokers, its president says.Jim Henderson,...

Brown & Brown Reports Earnings Record

Oct 18 2004 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. announced record quarterly earnings for the third quarter of 2004 of $30,086,000 compared with $26,051,000 in the third quarter of 2003, an increase of 15.5%. Net income per share rose...

Brown & Brown Acquires Ark. Agency

Aug 3 2004 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced the acquisition of Arkansas-based Hardin & Wilson Inc., of Little Rock. Hardin & Wilson, with annualized revenues of approximately $1.2 million, is a full-service commercial...

Brown & Brown Reports Strong Q2

Jul 13 2004 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. announced net income for the second quarter of 2004 of $32,153,000, or $0.46 per share, an increase of 15.1% over the $27,935,000, or $0.41 per share, reported for the quarter ended...