CENTRAL Insurance has linked up with former Scottish rugby captain and BBC pundit Andy Nicol to boost the tailored service it provides for corporate customers and private clients looking for customised insurance packages.
Mr Nicol, a former head of business development at Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) private banking division, has become an ambassador for Central Bespoke in a bid to raise its profile and introduce its service to potential clients.
Central Bespoke specialises in cover for prestige and performance cars, domestic and foreign property portfolios, and high value items such as art and jewellery.
The partnership with Mr Nicol, a former British & Irish Lion, aims to build its presence in this specialist sector.
Tom Aldridge, regional director at Central Insurance, said: "It is part of our heritage, especially in Edinburgh. There is a significant segment of the insurance market that values the input of a broker to design and place high-quality insurance for complex risks and valuable items, which the direct market would not necessarily cover.
"We are growing in this area and Andy's involvement will help us to develop in the right direction."
Central Insurance, which employs 130 staff in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Kendal, said it had built its business largely on client referrals. But it hopes the arrangement with Mr Nicol will help it reach a wider audience thanks to his contacts.
Mr Nicol, who joined private bank Adam & Company after leaving RBS, is chief executive of Abstract, a business consultant focused on people development.
He said: "Central Bespoke is a great business and I was very keen to get involved since it clearly values the individual as highly as I do.
"As a former team captain, and having worked in private banking for a number of years, I understand the necessity of making personal connections and managing each person as an individual."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article