Auto-Owners Makes Fortune 500 List for 11th Straight Year

LANSING, Mich., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Auto-Owners Insurance Company, a multi-line property/casualty and life insurer, is listed at No. 443 on the annual Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations.  The new ranking makes Auto-Owners the 17th largest Michigan-based business on the Fortune 500 list.

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This is the 11^th straight year Auto-Owners has appeared in the Fortune 500 list. The company had $5.7 billion in revenue for 2012.

"Auto-Owners is honored to receive this prestigious recognition for the 11^th straight year," said Auto-Owners Insurance Company Chairman and CEO Jeff Harrold. "Our continued ranking among the top 500 companies in America underscores our core value of stability and consistency in our operations to achieve these results.  Thanks to our outstanding staff working with our independent agents, we continue to provide excellent customer service while being one of the best providers of insurance products and services in the business."

Auto-Owners Insurance Company has earned some of the industry's highest rankings for its exceptional financial strength and stability.  Auto-Owners Insurance Group is one of only 10 groups of insurance companies to be rated A++ by A.M. Best, a nationally recognized rating agency for insurance companies.

Auto-Owners employs more than 4,000 associates and writes more than 4.6 million policies annually, in 26 states, exclusively through local independent agents.  Auto-Owners was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Lansing, Michigan.

SOURCE Auto-Owners Insurance