State Farm
Industry: Insurance services
Headquarters: Bloomington, IL
Founder: George J. Mecherle
Founded: 1922
Number of Employees: 68,000
Markets: United States, Canada
Interviewed: Clayton Adams, Vice President Community Development
Tony Woller, Assistant Director
Mike Williams, Manager of Media Relations
State Farm is an Insurance firm that was founded by George J Mecherle in 1922. In a little over 80 years, State Farm has grown from a small, farming-community-based mutual auto insurer to one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Despite this tremendous growth, the founder’s original philosophy of insurance coverage at a fair price, coupled with fair claim settlement, has remained the cornerstone of the firm’s success. Today, State Farm Insurance Companies is one of the 25 largest corporations on the Fortune 500. State Farm’s 17,000 agents and 68,000 employees serve over 74 million auto, fire, life, and health policies in the United States and Canada, and more than 1.8 million bank accounts.
State Farm has been involved with the community since its inception. Community involvement is crucial to the company’s brand and slogan “like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.” This is not just a slogan; it is what the firm sincerely believes and what it practices. The company’s agents, its employees, have always been involved in the community, trying to become good neighbors. The firm’s mission is to help people manage the risk of everyday life, recover from the unexpected, and realize their dreams, and the community involvement contributes to the company’s fulfillment of this mission.
State Farm
1 State Farm Plaza
Bloomington, Illinois 61710
www.statefarm.com
Community: http://www.statefarm.com/about/part_spos/part_spos.asp
Tags: corporate philanthropy, State Farm
