The CEO of Fortegra Financial believes he has a distinct edge as he competes to acquire property and casualty wholesale brokerages and regional specialty agencies to add to his firm's suite of insurance-service operations.
What is the advantage? Being a New York Stock Exchange-listed public company.
“We think the public-company [status] is critical to rewarding the brokers who make your business happen,” says Richard Kahlbaugh, who heads a group that includes credit-insurance operations, a business-process-outsourcing (BPO) platform, and Redondo Beach, Calif.-based wholesaler Bliss & Glennon (B&G).
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