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🚗 '''Specialized auto insurer origins.''' Tian Ping Auto Insurance Co., Ltd. was established in December 2004 in Shanghai as China’s first specialist auto insurer, focusing on low-cost, direct motor insurance and gradually expanding its presence across multiple provinces.<ref name="axa_basic" /><ref name="digitaling_2013" /> By 2013 the company had grown to 62 offices in 18 provinces, employing more than 6,000 staff and serving over four million customers, providing the scale and direct distribution capabilities that would later underpin its partnership with AXA Group.<ref name="digitaling_2013" />
🤝 '''Creation of the AXA Tianping joint venture.''' In 2014 AXA Group completed the acquisition of a 50 percent stake in Tian Ping and merged its existing China property and casualty subsidiary with the local company, creating AXA Tianping Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd. with headquarters remaining in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district.<ref name="axa_press2018">{{cite web |title=AXA to acquire the remaining 50% stake in AXA Tianping to accelerate its growth in China as the #1 foreign P&C insurer |url=https://www.axa.com/en/press/press-releases/axa-to-acquire-the-remaining-50
📆 '''Move to full AXA ownership.''' In November 2018 AXA announced plans to acquire the remaining 50 percent stake in AXA Tianping from its Chinese shareholders for about ¥4.6 billion, positioning AXA to become the first foreign insurer to fully own a top-20 Chinese property and casualty company and to secure full strategic and operational control of its mainland non-life platform.<ref name="axa_press2018" /> At the time of this announcement AXA Tianping ranked around fifteenth in the Chinese property and casualty market with approximately €1 billion (about ¥7.7 billion) of gross written premiums, a network of 25 branches and 93 sub-branches across more than 20 provinces, and a business mix still dominated by motor insurance.<ref name="axa_press2018" />
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