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Aviva is to sell its Australian insurance and pension operations to National Australia Bank for £452m, in order to fund acquisitions in India and China. 23-Jun-2009 Aviva is to shed 1,100 jobs from its insurance business, including 570 in York and 480 in Norwich. 06-Apr-2009 Aviva has sold the Bristol-based British School of Motoring to German private equity firm Arques Industries, with the transfer of more than 600 staff at 96 local centres. 12-Feb-2009 Aviva has sold HPI, the vehicle checking service with gross assets of £112m and 180 staff in Salisbury and Harrogate, to Solera Holdings. 22-Dec-2008 Aviva is to sell its RAC auto windscreens business, including 100 fitting centres and 700 mobile units, to Arques Industries of Germany for undisclosed terms. 01-Dec-2008 Aviva is to shed 125 jobs at its Norwich Union insurance business in Norwich, and there will also be cuts in York, Sheffield and Stevenage. 28-Oct-2008 Aviva is to shed up to 1,800 jobs by 2010, with the closure of 13 insurance offices in Basildon, Birmingham, Bristol, Cheadle, Dundee, Exeter, Glasgow, Ipswich, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Southampton and Worthing. 10-Jun-2008 Aviva is planning to drop the Norwich Union name over the next two years, in order to unify its insurance operations under the Aviva brand. 30-Apr-2008 Aviva is to acquire LIG Life Insurance of South Korea for £73m, in partnership with Woori Finance. 04-Feb-2008 Aviva has announced proposals to cut costs in its UK insurance business by £300m over the next two years, which could lead to the loss of thousands more jobs at Norwich Union. 18-Oct-2007 Aviva is to acquire Erasmus, the Dutch insurance company with gross assets of about £650m, from Wustenrot & Wurttembergische. 09-Feb-2007 Aviva is to shed 4,000 jobs from its Norwich Union insurance business by 2008, affecting sites in Belfast, Glasgow, Stevenage, Norwich and Cambridge, in order to transfer work to India and outsource its IT operation. 15-Sep-2006 Aviva is to close a Norwich Union call centre in Liverpool with the loss of up to 321 jobs, while 17 jobs will be lost in Sheffield. 26-Jul-2006 Aviva is to acquire AmerUs Group, the US-based life insurance company, for £1.6bn. 14-Jul-2006 Aviva has sold the vehicle solutions businesses of RAC to VT Group for £87m, including Lex Transfleet, Lex Defence, Lex Defence Management and RAC Software Solutions. 02-May-2006 Aviva has made a £17bn takeover approach for rival insurance company Prudential. 20-Mar-2006 Aviva has sold Lex Commercial, Lex Auto Logistics, Lex Fleetserve and Lex Multipart Defence to Imperial Holdings of South Africa for £50m, which will involve the transfer of 1,300 staff. 22-Feb-2006 Aviva is looking to expand its recently-acquired RAC motoring business by adding 1.8m customers. 21-Oct-2005 Aviva, the insurance company, is to relocate 800 Glasgow-based call centre staff to a new site nearby next year. 09-Jun-2005 Aviva is to acquire RAC, the motoring services group that offers roadside recovery, driving schools and insurance services, for £1.1bn, which will result in the loss of 1,700 jobs and the transfer of back-office functions abroad. 09-Mar-2005 Aviva is planning to reorganise its long-term life and pensions business by merging ten subsidiaries into four, in order to cut costs and simplify its corporate structure. 16-Aug-2004 Tellings Golden Miller is to acquire Arriva's bus operations in Colchester, which will involve the transfer of almost 100 staff. 09-Aug-2004 Aviva has sold its Your Move estate agency and surveying operations to a management buy-out backed by Barclays Private Equity for £42m. 19-Jul-2004 Aviva is to shed 700 jobs at its Norwich Union life insurance offices in Norwich, York, Stevenage, Bristol and Croydon, and is looking to outsource half of its business services operation. 10-Jun-2004 Aviva is to sell the Bournemouth-based commercial insurance business of Hill House Hammond to Folgate Partnership for an estimated £15m, which will involve the transfer of 250 staff. 12-Feb-2004 Aviva is to shed 2,350 jobs in its Norwich Union insurance business, in order to transfer call centre and back office work from the UK to India. 03-Dec-2003 Aviva has announced plans to shed 900 jobs in its Norwich Union insurance business, including 300 in Norwich, 280 in Cheadle, 60 in Perth, 40 in Worthing and the rest at other undisclosed offices. 16-Jul-2003 Aviva is to shed more than 100 jobs at its Norwich Union marketing and telesales operations in York, Norwich and Stevenage. 04-Mar-2003 Aviva is planning to open an insurance call centre in India with 1,000 staff, prompting speculation about the possibility of job losses in the UK. 12-Feb-2003 Aviva is to close its Norwich Union pensions processing centre at Romford with the loss of 190 jobs, and the work will be transferred to sites in Norwich and Stevenage. 14-Nov-2002 Aviva is considering plans to open a Norwich Union insurance call centre in Sheffield with the creation of up to 700 jobs, as part of an ongoing review of its nationwide property portfolio. 25-Oct-2002 Aviva is planning to relocate 750 Norwich Union insurance staff to a new multi-million pound call centre in Norfolk, and sites are being considered at Thorpe and Costessey. 18-Oct-2002 Aviva is to sell its general insurance business in Pakistan to New Jubilee Insurance, while its 63% stake in the Commercial Union Life Assurance Company of Pakistan is being sold to the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development. 17-Sep-2002 Aviva is to sell its Spanish general insurance business to Groupama of France for £157m. 09-Jul-2002
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