Gallagher News and Insights

As the curtain falls on a dramatic 2018, the latest Gallagher Market Overview Report reflects on the key themes from what has been a year of change and instability for Australia.

After a 30-year career in running her family’s transport business Gallagher National Head of Transport Roz Shaw made a sideways step into an equally high-level role in insurance, hitting the ground with the engine running, so to speak.

Gallagher has announced that Gary O’Meara has been named as Branch Manager for the firm’s Parramatta office.

Seventeen members of the Gallagher Perth team did it the hard way as they completed a gruelling 6.5km army-style obstacle course on Saturday 27 October to raise funds for the Soldier On charity.

Adelaide United have become the first side to win the FFA Cup twice thanks to a 2-1 victory over Sydney FC.

Chet Richardson has joined Gallagher from insurer IAG to take up the newly created Sales Leader WA role, based out of Perth.

Previous fundraising records for YWCA Australia were broken when Gallagher hosted members of the insurance industry at the 2018 Gallagher Wine and Cheese Evening – and guests came to the party in a big way.

Always a high level thinker, Kirrilee Alexander joined the insurance industry after writing a wish list of what she wanted from a career. As a strategist she constantly consults with key stakeholders, maintaining an unruffled equanimity in the face of complex requirements and operations with overlapping deadlines.

A total of 781 teams entered the FFA Cup and now only two remain. Adelaide United and Sydney FC will renew their rivalry in the 2018 FFA Cup final, to be held at Coopers Stadium on 30 October, in a rematch of the 2017 decider.

Fundraising efforts across the Gallagher branch network all over Australia have raised more than $10,000 for drought-hit farming communities.

A recent lawsuit between a student and Monash University has highlighted a growing risk for the higher education sector.

Andrew McCormack, an Account Executive at Gallagher Alice Springs, claimed the Senior Broker of the Year title at the Northern Territory Insurance Awards.

There is no domestic gas shortage to worry about according to the Australian Energy Market Operator, which informed the market in a recent 2018 outlook that the east coast shortfall feared in 2017 had been successfully averted.

Turning a client’s workplace safety culture around has earned the Gallagher Workplace Risk team inclusion as a finalist in the Excellence in Improving Employer Performance category of the 2018 icare Care & Service Excellence Awards.

Eighteen of Gallagher Perth's team members have committed to complete a gruelling obstacle course on Saturday 27 October in order to raise funds for the Soldier On charity.

As effective at juggling multiple professional relationships and requirements as a multi-armed IT goddess, Gallagher Application Development and Business Intelligence Manager Vanessa Gomes is highly popular both within the business and with external vendors.

Gallagher has launched a specialist Food Production practice as the risks associated with the sector become increasingly complex.

Gallagher has been recognised in the 2018 Forbes ‘World Best Employer’ 2000 listing, the only insurance broker to achieve this distinction.

The Gallagher 90^th anniversary year of employees volunteering their time for a charitable cause with a goal of 90,000 hours has ended – and the company achieved 112,706 employee hours in total.

Gallagher's Newcastle-based Area Director Mark Bramley found a unique way to support hard-hit farming communities - dying his silver hair blond and raising more than $1100 for the cause.