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Get your lucky pants on boys!
Budget Van Insurance sends ‘Good Luck’ pants to England Rugby squad

August 2007

With the Rugby World Cup kicking off this weekend, Budget Van Insurance is sending a pair of lucky pants to the reigning champions/Welsh squad, Scottish squad.  The team will receive stylish trunks with ‘Good luck England/Wales/Scotland’ splashed across the front.  

Lisa Corston, Marketing Manager, Budget Van Insurance says:

“Most of us have a lucky mascot, and for many, it’s a pair of lucky pants.  At Budget Van Insurance we want to give the boys all the support we can on the pitch – both physically and mentally.  What better way than a pair of patriotic pants to boost the squad’s confidence as they battle it out with the opposition to get their hands on the Webb Ellis Trophy.” 

To mark this unique event, a team of brave Budget Van Insurance men and women stripped down to model the smalls at Leicester Rugby club on Friday 31st August.    

Budget Van Insurance will also be donating £500 to the Matt Hampson Trust.  Matt is a young Tigers prop forward who suffered a serious neck injury whilst at England U21 training in March 2005.

More photographs are available on request.

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Roland Cross/Nicola Pierce
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Notes to Editors:

The BGL Group (formerly known as the Budget Group of Companies)

The BGL Group was established in 1992 and has grown to be the UK’s third largest personal lines insurance intermediary, through a combination of organic growth and a series of major strategic acquisitions.

The BGL Group

The BGL Group  (the Group) was founded in 1992 and has grown to become one of the UK’s largest personal lines insurance intermediaries, through a combination of organic growth and a series of major strategic acquisitions (the last major acquisition was five years ago).

The Group now arranges and administers insurance for 1.75 million customers. It operates major contact centre operations (Fusion) in Peterborough, Coventry, Sunderland, Peterlee in the UK, and Cape Town, South Africa. The Group currently employs 2,255 people with its head office in Peterborough.

As an intermediary, the Group is able to access a wide range of underwriters, making it highly competitive in the marketplace, offering core products such as motor, home, commercial vehicle and motorcycle insurance.  The Group also offers a wide range of supplementary products, which include breakdown cover, legal protection, travel insurance and mortgage payment protection insurance.

In 2006 the Group received ‘Intermediary of the Year’ (Insurance Age UK Broker Awards) for its outstanding contribution to the insurance industry.  In April 2007, the Sunday Times’ PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100 rankings selected the Group as ‘one to watch’.

Budget Van insurance searches a panel of 12 insurers to offer competitively priced van insurance, in addition to exceptional product benefits. In 2006 Budget Van launched various innovative marketing campaigns including ‘it’s a van man thing’ and ‘flying traffic wardens’, which resulted in it being awarded ‘Marketing Campaign of The Year 2006’ (Insurance Times Awards).

BISL Ltd, part of the BGL is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

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