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Hugh Boswell
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Hugh Boswell in Norwich, Norfolk and founded in 1906 were customers secured from a Club Elite
event held at the CGU Ipswich branch in June 1999. They were a big and well-known brokerage
arranging personal, commercial and specialist insurances, risk management services with a fi nancial
services arm that was built-into the main site. The Bureau registered their Domains names, set-up a
SMTP email network server, designed their corporate brochures, risk management guide and product

literature as well as creating their first Website. A little later in the relationship The Bureau designed
a specialist motor traders’ Website mentioned later in this e-book.
www.boswell-insurance.co.uk – now at www.hughjboswell.co.uk

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Ian Brown General Insurance Brokers Limited
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Ian Brown General Insurance Brokers Limited, Billericay, Essex were recently acquired by another fi rm
but continue to use a Website designed by The Bureau in September 2005. This is the second Website
The Bureau has designed for them on which they promote a typical range of general insurance with
commercial and personal lines and specialist insurance for property owners.
www.ianbrowninsurancebrokers.co.uk

Ian Brown Financial Advisers
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Ian Brown Financial Advisers also based in Billericay, Essex but in a separate building also had a
Website design by The Bureau and now trade under the name of Crocus Wealth Management,

mentioned earlier in the C’s. The financial services they offer remain the same as they are now

comprising financial and wealth planning, focusing on investments, estate planning, protection
products and retirement planning.
www.ibfa.co.uk – now at www.crocuswealth.co.uk

The Institute of Independent Insurance Brokers
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The Institute of Independent Insurance Brokers* in the historical town Higham Ferrers in
Northamptonshire forged a close connection with The Bureau in late 1999. The IIB competed for
members with the British Insurance Brokers Association (BIBA) and possibly had more members in
those days. They hosted IIB membership events all over the country, including Andrew Paddick’s
biggest initiative, ‘Broker Direct’, that promised to shake-up the insurance sector. The Bureau

registered the IIB’s first Domains, email service and Website. Andrew Paddick was passionate about
everything he did and ruffled a few feathers in his time. It was a great loss when he suddenly died in

2008. Shame he is not still around; what would he have made of the current insurance broker sector?
www.iib-uk.com