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Born and bred in New Zealand, for over 150 years Tower has been supporting Kiwis and Pacific customers to protect their homes, cars, businesses and the things they love.
Tower Insurance - Latest News [Page 3]
Tower welcomes new financial conduct regime
Wednesday, 25 September 2019, 3:31 pm | Tower Insurance
Tower welcomes the government’s announcement today to regulate financial conduct and create fairer outcomes for customers of all insurers. More >>
Moving toward a better, fairer insurance industry
Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 10:01 am | Tower Insurance
Kiwi insurer Tower has today announced its commitment to remove the duty of disclosure from its sales and claims processes before the end of the year. More >>
Tower funds Fijian “ecovillage” to build climate resilience
Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 10:13 am | Tower Insurance
Tower Insurance has agreed to fund the creation of a pilot “ecovillage” in Fiji that it hopes will help villagers prepare for climate change and lead more sustainable lives, there and across the Pacific. The insurer is partnering with GENOA (Global ... More >>
Tower appoints Shine and MBM following competitive pitch
Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 2:36 pm | Tower Insurance
Kiwi insurer Tower has announced the appointment of Shine as their strategic and creative communications agency, partnering with MBM for media planning and services. The appointment follows a competitive pitch process. More >>
Tower returns to profit
Tuesday, 21 May 2019, 9:38 am | Tower Insurance
Tower returns to profit - FY19 guidance for underlying NPAT uplifted to in excess of $26m More >>
Junior NZ weightlifter places first and welcomes new sponsor
Thursday, 9 May 2019, 10:53 am | Tower Insurance
New Zealand Junior Weightlifting Champion, Kanah Andrews-Nahu beat out international competition to win the Women’s 76kg category at the Arafura Games in Darwin. Not only placing first, Andrews-Nahu also broke three New Zealand records and three Oceania ... More >>
70% of people think Tower's new insurance pricing is fair
Tuesday, 8 January 2019, 3:12 pm | Tower Insurance
A recent survey by Tower Insurance showed that 70% of people across New Zealand believe that risk-based pricing is a fair way to pay for insurance. More >>
Strong growth narrows Tower’s loss
Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 8:48 am | Tower Insurance
Tower Limited (NZX/ASX:TWR) has today announced continued strong growth and improvement of sales through digital channels, a declining expense ratio, and positive progress through a major technology upgrade, demonstrating that the transformation of the ... More >>
Tower Insurance - staunch supporters of extraordinary people
Friday, 24 August 2018, 8:49 am | Tower Insurance
Today Tower Insurance announced a new partnership with Paralympics New Zealand that celebrates and supports extraordinary people. More >>
Tower Insurance welcomes reform of EQC
Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 1:10 pm | Tower Insurance
Tower Insurance welcomes and supports the recommendations made in the independent ministerial advisor’s report into the EQC released today. More >>
Tower urges Government to act on meth contamination
Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 9:40 am | Tower
Tower Insurance strongly encourages the government to take action in response to the report by the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Sir Peter Gluckman, on the management of methamphetamine testing and decontamination. More >>
Tower's transformation agenda driving strong growth
Tuesday, 29 May 2018, 1:30 pm | Tower Insurance
Tower Limited (NZX/ASX:TWR) has today announced that strong growth in Gross Written Premium, policy numbers and digital sales are evidence that its transformation is well underway. More >>
Tower business update - focus on customers delivers growth
Thursday, 1 March 2018, 10:21 am | Tower Insurance
Tower Limited advises that its transformation is well underway with strong growth and positive trends being seen in key areas. More >>
Tower welcomes EQC action
Friday, 23 February 2018, 2:11 pm | Tower Insurance
Tower welcomes today’s announcement by Minister Megan Woods that the government intends to provide extra assistance to speed up EQC claims. More >>
Insurance policy wins Plain English Award
Friday, 24 November 2017, 10:02 am | Tower Insurance
Tower Insurance is proud that its latest simple and easy House Insurance policy has won a Plain English Award. More >>
Tower's Kaikoura and Edgecumbe claims finalised early 2018
Friday, 10 November 2017, 1:46 pm | Tower Insurance
Tower has settled 90% of Kaikoura claims, over 20% ahead of the industry average of 69% More >>
Fintel customers may be entitled to refund
Wednesday, 18 October 2017, 10:22 am | Tower Insurance
In March 2016 Tower reported an error in calculating multi-policy discounts. Following this, steps were immediately taken to correct the error, with affected customers notified and offered a refund. More >>
Suncorp reaches 19.99% threshold
Wednesday, 15 March 2017, 9:57 am | Tower Ltd
Tower Limited (NZX/ASX: TWR) understands that Suncorp Group Limited’s stake in Tower has now reached 19.99% of shares for which it has paid $1.40 per share to date. More >>
Tower notes Suncorp unsolicited off-market share offer
Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 9:12 am | Tower Ltd
Tower Limited (NZX/ASX: TWR) understands that Suncorp Group Limited and affiliated companies (ASX: SUN) acting through UBS, have approached shareholders seeking to initially buy up to a 19.99% stake in Tower at a fixed price of NZ$1.30 per share, ... More >>
Tower Insurance mobilises response team
Saturday, 19 November 2016, 11:27 pm | Tower
Tower Insurance mobilises response team Tower has mobilised its Earthquake Response Team as access to earthquake affected areas continues to improve. The team, based in Hanmer Springs, will start visiting Tower Insurance customers from Monday 21 November. ... More >>
