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• Progressive Corp. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-11

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Vinay Misquith - Credit Suisse. Vinay Misquith - Credit Suisse Could you provide us some color on your growth in agency auto, was that due to the rollout of the new agency model with higher price segmentation and how...

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• Brand touts independent agents.(Marketplace)(Progressive Corp. has launched a branding campaign )(Brief Article)

  - 2004-11-01

  In a nod to its existing distribution network of independent agents and brokers, Progressive Corp. has launched a branding campaign it plans to market through a multimedia advertising campaign and make available exclusively through agency channels. In a nod to its existing distribution network...

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• Progressive Agents Going Wireless.

  - 2000-12-01

  Consumers now have wireless access to Progressive Corp.'s Web site and its Find-an-Agent feature. Progressive reports that consumers can use a Web-enabled cellular phone or handheld device to locate an independent agent instantly, at any time from an Consumers now have wireless access to Progressive Corp.'s...

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• Chris Garson 39 General manager, agent technologies Progressive Corp.

  - 1999-11-29

  Although he has changed his lifestyle, Chris Garson hasn't become any less active. Along with keeping on top of his job as a software developer at Progressive Corp., the Mayfield Heights-based auto insurer, Mr. Garson said he is writing four books Although he...

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• NEW PROGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN TOUTS INDEPENDENT AGENTS.

  - 1999-06-28

  No one ever said that marketing auto insurance was easy. Just ask Marc Zeitlin, director of marketing and sales for the agent business unit of Progressive Corp. Mr. Zeitlin faces the difficult task of promoting Progressive's 38,000 independent age No one ever said...

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• ALLSTATE PURSUING PROGRESSIVE'S INDEPENDENTS.

  - 1999-06-14

  Allstate Corp. has pledged to unseat Progressive Corp. as the country's top underwriter of auto insurance through independent agents. Emboldened by its recent acquisition of part of a Chicago insurance firm, Allstate is confident that it can gene Allstate Corp. has pledged...

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• LETTERS.

  - 1999-04-26

  Pinch? What pinch? Editor: Regarding your April 12, page 1 story, "A Progressive pinch'': We're not feeling a pinch or a squeeze, because purchasing Progressive Corp.'s insurance through an independent agent is not any more expensive than Pinch? What...

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• A PROGRESSIVE PINCH: COMPANY'S EFFORT TO BOOST DIRECT SALES HAS INDEPENDENT AGENTS FEELING SQUEEZE.

  - 1999-04-12

  Howard Flynn cringes every time Progressive Corp.'s toll-free 800 telephone number flashes across the television sc reen." If viewers call that number, they won't call us," said Mr. Flynn, president of GFN Insurance Agency Inc. in Rock Howard Flynn cringes every time Progressive...

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• Progressive reconsiders contract. (Progressive Corp.'s 'Universal Auto' agency contract)

  - 1994-03-21

  Progressive Corp. is changing its "Universal Auto" agency contract, answering producer conerns that it infringes on their ownership of expirations. Agent leaders consider the shift "a tremendous improvement" over the original c Progressive Corp. is changing its "Universal Auto" agency contract, answering...

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• Agents uneasy with Progressive auto contract.

  - 1993-09-27

  Progressive Corp. has raised the ire of producers in a number of states with an agency contract for its universal auto product that critics say infringes on the traditional expiration ownership rights of independent agents. The contract - which ap Progressive Corp. has...

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