Hema and hive goes in insurance and mortgages
Spent: 10 March 2004 19.52 last modified: 10
March 2004 21.30 AMSTERDAMS - the products houses Hema and hive steps
in insurance and mortgages. The hive in Amsterdam opens mid-
March a financial department. Later shops in Rotterdam and The
Hague follow. The Hema start in the first six-month period with
offering simple financial products. That explained Wednesday a
spokesman of mother company Vendex KBB. ' on the side of the
banks the contact with the customer decreases ', said the spokesman.
Customers pin always more often and less frequently visit the
bank. There we see chances, because we have multiple contact
with customers. Moreover we have many settlings in the
Netherlands. The warenhuisconcern sell the insurance of several
insurance companies, but names do not want call the company. At
the hive the emphasis comes lie on sale of mortgages by means of
commission agents. Furthermore the products house wants offer
also woonverzekeringen. Vendex KBB set up services in 2002, a
venture under the name Cards & Financial (CFS). That for the put
also already twenty money automats in him A. The venture soon
decides if the test with the automats also becomes to other branches
extend. The products houses of V&D, also a component of Vendex
KBB, sell already insurance products under the name Vendopolis to a
lot of years. That was a joint venture with insurer Achmea.
Vendex KBB the insurer bought out and categorises Vendopolis at
CFS. (c) DUTCH PRESS AGENCY
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