Type: Public
On the web: http://www.kempercorporation.com
Employees: 7,130
Employee growth: (1.4%)

Kemper (formerly Unitrin) keeps both property/casualty and life insurance. Its Kemper and Unitrin Specialty businesses offer automobile, homeowners, and fire coverage through independent agents and brokers. Its Unitrin Direct business sells standard and non-standard auto coverage directly to consumers online and through employer-sponsored voluntary benefit programs. The company's Career Agency Companies primarily sell life insurance the old-fashioned way -- through home visits to individual customers. The company operates in the southern, midwestern, and western parts of the US.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $2,743.4M
One year growth: (6.5%)
Net income: $184.6M
Income growth: 12.1%

Officers:
Chairman Emeritus: Richard C. Vie
Chairman, President, CEO: Donald G. (Don) Southwell
SVP and CFO: Dennis R. Vigneau

Competitors:
Liberty Mutual Agency
Nationwide
State Farm

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