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Overview:
The Lycetts Group is a well established, forward thinking group of companies providing a comprehensive range of insurance and financial advice to a broad cross-section of commercial and private clients. With offices located throughout the UK, Lycetts aims to provide clients with high quality, personal service supported by the professionalism and expertise of a truly independent company.
Discretion, knowledge and service lie at the heart of our approach to managing the insurance and financial interests of our clients. These qualities of client care combined with the relationships that have been developed over the years between Lycetts and the many insurers with which we interact on behalf of clients make us well placed to manage their interests.
At Lycetts we are committed to retaining our independence, whilst at the same time continuing to expand both the company's range of services and the ability to provide service at a local level. With a high proportion of our clients coming to Lycetts via personal recommendation we believe that our track record and professional approach to conducting business stands us in good stead for the future. |
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History:
Lycetts, as the company is now universally recognised, was established in Newcastle in 1961 as Wright Deen Lycett Limited by our Life President, Michael Lycett, with the help of Sir Ralph Carr-Ellison and Lloyds brokers, Wright Deen. Shortly after the firm was set up, Wright Deen Lycett took offices in Newcastle's historic Milburn House, which still remains the group's head office.
It was Michael Lycett's intention that the business should be based on three divisions. To that end he was joined in 1962 by John Browne-Swinburne, who was responsible for starting a financial services department and in 1970 by Robin Douglass, an experienced commercial broker who complemented Michael Lycett's expertise in that sector.
In 1973, the company changed its name to Lycett, Browne-Swinburne & Douglass Ltd. Shortly afterwards, Edward Nicholl, previously with Willis Faber & Dumas in London, returned North to develop the farm and estate side of the business.
Over the next few years, a number of key individuals who are members of the current board joined to make a major contribution to the company's rapid growth.
Upon Michael Lycett's retirement in 1976, John Browne-Swinburne became managing director, a role he subsequently combined with that of Chairman. In 1994, the company adopted the trading name of Lycetts and continued to develop according to its core principles of finding the right people in the right places to give the best possible service to clients.
John handed over the role of Managing Director to Edward Nicholl in 1992 and that of Chairman in 2002. During the 1990s, Lycetts developed its nationwide network from its Newcastle base through the creation of offices in Oxford, Norfolk, Aberdeen, Sussex, Edinburgh and latterly Exeter and Shropshire. Growth was mainly attributable to the expansion of the company into the farm and estate sector through this network of offices, with commercial insurance and financial services being predominantly traded from the Newcastle office.
Although based in Newcastle both the Commercial division and Lycetts Financial Services share the nationwide client base successfully enabling the company to provide mutual support to clients across the range of disciplines.
With a highly experienced and technical broking team the Commercial division has developed a broad array of clients. Recent recognition, by the Insurance Times, as the foremost independent insurance broker in the North East has cemented the position of the Commercial broking team amongst the head office business community.
Financial Services has developed a niche expertise in providing advice to rural businesses and estate clients as well as the mainstream corporate and private sectors.
In 2003, Lycetts acquired the specialist animal trade insurance broker Cliverton, which now operates as a separate trading division of Lycetts. Cliverton was established in 1973 and has developed various insurance schemes to cover a range of animal-related industries, and also for rural businesses and smallholdings.
Lycetts made a further addition to its business in 2005 when it acquired Woking-based Algarve Insurance Brokers Ltd. Algarve represented an ideal acquisition to support Lycetts' stated aim to maintain its position as the leading independent broker in the rural sector, given its expertise in the insurance of tree surgeons, arboriculturalists and foresters.
The acquisition, in October 2006, of The Hydra Group, including Hamilton and Partners - market leaders in the bloodstock sector represents the next stage in Lycetts strategy to develop further into niche markets.
Former Hamilton and Partners Managing Director, Charles Hamilton, who is now on the board of Lycetts, now heads up the bloodstock division offering insurance services to owners of bloodstock, equine and rural property, as well as other high value residential property.
On the 1st May 2007 Angus Keate suceeded Edward Nicholl as chief executive of Lycetts.
In June 2008 Lycetts acquired the Marlborough based Bloodstock and Stud Investment Company, BASIC, which will continue as a trading name of Lycetts. Founder, Hamish Scott-Dalgleish will continue to run the business from the Marlborough office.
Then in August 2008 Lycetts made yet another addition to the business when they acquired City based broker Carroll Foley Lloyd Limited. CFL, established in 1992, specialises in high and mid net worth household insurance in London and the South East.
The key to Lycetts' success has been balance - not only in the insurance expertise on which the business is based, but also in the advice given. Clients seek a balanced opinion on most problems, based on sound professional knowledge, experience and common sense. In order to achieve this balanced view, Lycetts employs brokers with a wide experience in life, not just insurance broking. At Lycetts, staff are encouraged to take on community commitments, such as becoming magistrates or school governors and also to work hard and play hard.
The aim of the founders of Lycetts was twofold: to provide first class insurance advice and to provide careers for promising individuals who would contribute to the running of their local communities. These principles continue to prevail in the ongoing development of the company. |
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