SCOR acquires majority stake in AgroBrasil

SCOR acquires control of AgroBrasil Administração e Participações Ltda (AgroBrasil), Brazil’s family-owned leading Managing General Agent distributing fruit and grain loss of crop quality and yield insurance protection to Brazilian farmers.

The AgroBrasil acquisition secures access to a growing and profitable market for SCOR’s P&C reinsurance and specialty insurance activities and strengthens SCOR’s expertise in agriculture, ultimately enabling greater knowledge-sharing, better client-servicing and additional business opportunities across SCOR’s P&C global platform.

SCOR has been a longstanding re/insurance player in the Brazilian agriculture market, which is one of the world’s most advanced and sophisticated markets. AgroBrasil is a recognised expert with an unrivalled access to growers, backed by a unique network of expert agronomists and a proprietary digital platform

SCOR has partnered with AgroBrasil for 15 years: initially as a reinsurer, and since 2013 as an insurer through its Brazilian insurance company, ESSOR Seguros, fully owned since 2018.

AgroBrasil’s operations will continue unchanged, keeping its successful team intact but with support from the SCOR Group to grow business development initiatives and to further invest in the technology needed to support its current business operations, profitable growth and the development of new products. Laura Neves will remain CEO of AgroBrasil and (subject to regulatory approvals) will join the ESSOR Board.