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Prudential paid £155m for sale of protection business

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  • 10/11/2014
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Prudential paid £155m for sale of protection business
Prudential has been paid £155m for the sale of its 25% stake in PruHealth and PruProtect to South African insurance group Discovery.

The deal sees the total value of the protection businesses put at around £620m, and represents Discovery’s aim to establish a second home market in the UK.

PruHealth and PruProtect will be rebranded and consolidated under a single insurance brand, Vitality.

The business will offer two insurance lines, VitalityHealth in the private medical insurance market, and VitalityLife in the long-term protection market.

Prudential UK, Europe and Africa chief executive Jackie Hunt said:

“Prudential is proud to have built a successful UK health and protection business in partnership with Discovery over the past ten years. This success has enabled us to divest our stake in PruHealth and PruProtect on attractive terms for Prudential’s shareholders.

“The transaction will also give us the strategic and commercial flexibility to consider operating freely in the UK protection market in due course. This would be fully in line with our stated strategy of developing the UK business and leveraging the Group’s global expertise in risk-focused products.”

Adrian Gore, CEO of Discovery, said: “Taking full ownership of our UK operations signals the significance of the UK to Discovery and is key to our strategy to replicate Discovery’s shared-value insurance model in this market. Discovery’s increased investment in the UK has always been part of our longer-term strategy.”

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