The Collinson Group Acquires CCS to extend its added value financial services portfolio

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 4 December 2012

The Collinson Group is pleased to announce that it has acquired card protection provider CCS. CCS was established in 1998, and offers the market a leading card protection product as well as having a range of other protection items in its portfolio.

Colin Evans, Chairman of The Collinson Group said: “This acquisition is of strategic importance, perfectly complementing, but also enhancing, our Group’s existing offering of insurance products and travel benefits, which are already used by a global set of financial services and corporate clients to build their loyalty programmes and drive incremental revenue. These products include Priority Pass, the world’s largest independent airport VIP lounge access programme, a diverse range of insurance products through Collinson Insurance Group and technology driven membership platforms through Collinson Latitude.

“The addition of card protection through CCS is a perfect fit, bringing an existing blue-chip client base and extending our multi-lingual capabilities for the support of protection products across the UK, mainland Europe and Asia Pacific.”

Colin continued, “In addition to offering quality products, we remain committed to delivering a superior customer experience. Products such as Collinson Latitude’s BenefitsPlusTM help banks to create transparent, tailored, added value account packages to suit both consumer and regulator demands, and CCS’s team can help build our footprint in this area.

“We will continue to invest in CCS’s products which we will be able to integrate closely with our own capabilities. We believe the inclusion of the CCS product portfolio with our existing products, technology and delivery capability establishes The Collinson Group as an unrivalled global provider of integrated protection and lifestyle benefits.”

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Notes to editors:

About The Collinson Group

The Collinson Group (http://www.thecollinsongroup.com) is a privately owned global organisation that leads through product and marketing innovation. It has over 25 years’ experience across a multitude of complementary companies with sector leadership in loyalty (ICLP), travel enhancement (Priority Pass), insurance (Columbus Insurance) and technology (Collinson Latitude).

The Collinson Group operates from 24 global locations, servicing over 800 B2B clients, employing over 1,000 staff comprising 50 nationalities with over 7 million customers using its products worldwide today.

Collinson Latitude - Creating profitable customers for life

Collinson Latitude (http://www.collinsonlatitude.com), a sister company of The Collinson Group, is a leading technology provider of products that deliver enhancements for reward and loyalty programmes and incremental revenues for brands.

The company’s innovative products deliver relevant and rewarding customer experiences by adding value and choice to memberships and loyalty. Focussing on the travel, financial services, telecommunication and retail industries, Collinson Latitude provides organisations with the tools to reach their full profit potential through products that generate and sustain active, loyal and profitable customers for life.

Collinson Latitude’s products can be deployed rapidly and configured to individual requirements, drawing on the company’s proprietary technology and extensive global partner network.

Collinson Insurance Group Ltd (CIG)
Collinson Insurance Group is an innovative, global, multi-functional insurance business that delivers quality products to our partners and customers through interaction with group companies and long term third party relationships.
Operating in four key divisions (retail, underwriting, broking and claims & assistance), Collinson Insurance Group covers millions of travellers every year.

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