RESHORING CASE

Markerstudy

Company details
Code: 
Markerstudy
Company name: 
Markerstudy
Group name: 
Markerstudy Group
Company country: 
United Kingdom
Group home country: 
United Kingdom
Sector: 
K - Financial and insurance activities
Sector detail: 
K65 - Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security
Sub-sectors: 
K65.1 - Insurance
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
05/07/2017
Starting implementation date: 
July, 2017
Reshored to: 
United Kingdom
Location of affected unit(s): 
Gibraltar
Reshored business function: 
Financial
Partial or Total reshoring: 
Total
Reasons for reshoring: 
Brexit
Case narrative: 

Markerstudy Group was established in 2001 and employs around 4,000 people. St Julians is a motor insurance company located in Malta,  which belongs to Markerstudy group and serves the United Kingdom market (where the group is headquartered). In order to protect the business and be able to continue trade with the UK after Brexit, Marketstudy has planned to relocate its operations of St Julian from Malta to Gibraltar (UK). "An application to re-domicile St Julians has been submitted to the Malta Financial Services Authority " Markerstudy said in a statement.

 

 

Sources: 

Insurance Times 07 July 2017

MaltaToday 07July 2017

Offshoring details
Offshoring date: 
2010
Offshored from: 
United Kingdom
Offshoring location: 
Malta
Offshored business function: 
Financial
Offshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Host country geographical area: 
Western Europe