Winterthur Group

Winterthur is a city in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland. It has the country's sixth largest population with an estimate of more than 100,000 people. In the local dialect and by its inhabitants, it is usually abbreviated as Winti. Today Winterthur is a service and high tech industry... centre, but many people make use of its proximity to Zürich, which lies approximately 30 kilometres to the south-west, and only 18 minutes by train. Winterthur is connected to Germany and Italy by direct trains and enjoys links to Zurich Airport. It is also a regional transportation hub: the A1 motorway from Geneva through to St. Margrethen connects in Winterthur with the A4 motorway heading north toward Schaffhausen and the A7 motorway heading close to the Swiss-German border at Kreuzlingen. There are also roads leading to other places such as Turbenthal. Winterthur Hauptbahnhof is one of the busiest train stations in Switzerland. During the Roman era, from 70 AD to around 400 AD, there was a Roman settlement in what would become Oberwinterthur.
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AXA S.A. is a French global insurance group headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. AXA is a conglomerate of independently run businesses, operated according to the laws and regulations of many different countries. The AXA group of companies engage in life, health and other forms of insurance, as well as investment management. The group operates primarily in Western Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific region, and the Middle East.... The AXA Group encompasses five operating business segments: Life & Savings, Property & Casualty, International Insurance , Asset Management and Other Financial Services. It ranks as the 9th largest company in the world on the 2010 Fortune Global 500 list. The company was originally founded in 1816 as Mutuelle de L'assurance contre L'incendie . It acquired Compagnie Parisienne de Garantie in 1978 and became Mutuelles Unies. It went on to buy the Drouot Group in 1982, at which time it adopted the AXA name. The takeover of The Equitable, a well-known American insurer, came in 1991.
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