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Farmers Insurance Kansas City Nominated for Top Employer Award.


KANSAS CITY Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Kan. -- Farmers Insurance Group's Kansas City area operations In maritime usage, operations conducted in a geographical area and not related to the protection of a specific force.  is among the top companies nominated for the 2007 Kansas City Business Journal's Best Places to Work as voted by Farmers' employees who took the Kansas City Business Journal Survey.

A letter to Farmers from the Kansas City Business Journal stated: "We are pleased to announce that your company has been selected as one of the winners. We look forward to recognizing all Best Places to Work companies, with additional recognition given to the top three winners in each of the categories at an awards luncheon on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center."

"This nomination puts us in an elite group and our employees deserve the credit. Not only do they do important work for our customers, but they are involved in the Kansas City community in a big way," said Vince Donofrio, vice president of Farmers HelpPoint operations. "I am so proud to see that the Kansas City Business Journal recognizes the difference our team is making. Our goal is to become the employer of choice in Kansas City."

Farmers has over 2,500 employees and agents in the KC area making it the largest private employer in Olathe, Kansas For other places with the same name, see Olathe (disambiguation).
Olathe (/oʊˈle(ɪ).θə/ ō-lā′-thə) is a city located in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Kansas.
 and among the top five employers in Johnson County Johnson County is the name of several counties in the United States:
  • Johnson County, Arkansas
  • Johnson County, Georgia
  • Johnson County, Illinois
  • Johnson County, Indiana
  • Johnson County, Iowa
  • Johnson County, Kansas
  • Johnson County, Kentucky
. Farmers occupies more than 300,000 square feet in three facilities in Olathe that house several different business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets  including the HelpPoint claims operation and ServicePoint service operation.

"We have a dedicated group of employees and agents in the Kansas City area," noted Rod Johnson, vice president of Farmers ServicePoint. "According to our Human Resources Department, we have hired 818 HelpPoint, ServicePoint and Field Claims employees in 2007 alone. The future is looking very bright for Farmers in the Kansas City area."

Farmers Group, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock.

Notes:
In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners.
 of Zurich Financial Services Zurich Financial Services Group is a major financial services group based in Zurich, Switzerland. Global operations
North America
The US consumer market is served primarily by Farmers Insurance Group the third largest personal lines property & casualty insurance
 Group, an insurance-based financial services provider with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in North America and Europe as well as in Asia Pacific, Latin America and other markets. Farmers[R] is the nation's third-largest Personal Lines Property & Casualty insurance group. Headquartered in Los Angeles and doing business in 41 states, the insurers comprising the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies provide Homeowners, Auto, Business, Life insurance and financial services to more than 10 million households. The Farmers Exchanges are three reciprocal property and casualty insurers, including their subsidiaries and affiliates owned by their policyholders and operating mainly under the Farmers brand and in 2006 had USD USD

In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar.

Notes:
The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion.
 15 billion in gross written premiums. For more information about Farmers, visit our Web site at www.farmers.com or contact our career information line at 913-826-7676.
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