OREANDA-NEWS. On October 09, 2007 to improve the regional network performance efficiency and optimize business processes, ROSNO has conducted restructuring of the regional directorates. The company’s Board of Directors has decided to change the structure and territorial borders of its insurance operations in Povolzh’e and the Southern region, reported the press-centre of ROSNO.

The decisions taken by the company’s management were implemented as follows:

Middle-Volga Directorate has been renamed into the Povolzh’e Directorate, and its head office has been transferred from Samara to Saratov.

South-Volga Directorate has been transformed into the Southern Directorate with head office in Krasnodar.

ROSNO’s South Volga Directorate has ceased to exist.

These changes will not affect the total quantity of ROSNO’s regional branches and will make it possible to continue improving customer service quality.

The Southern Directorate with head office in Krasnodar will control the following branches previously included in the structure of the South Volga Directorate: Astrakhan, Volgograd, Krasnodar, Dagestan, Pyatigorsk, Rostov, Sochi, Stavropol, Adygei-ROSNO, Vladikavkaz, Grozny, Ingushetia-ROSNO, Kabardino-Balkarian, Cherkessk, and Kalmyk.

The Southern Directorate will be headed by Mr. Andrei Ulanov, previously Director of the Irkutsk branch of IC SOGAZ and, before that, First Deputy Executive Director of ROSNO’s Eastern Siberian Directorate.

The Povolzh’e Directorate with head office in Saratov will control the following branches previously included in the structure of the Middle Volga Directorate: Kazan, Mordovian, Penza, Samara, Ulyanovsk, and Saratov.

The Povolzh’e Directorate will be headed by Mr. Dmitry Lebedev, previously Director of the South Volga Directorate.
 
Mr. Alexander Mamonov, previously heading the Middle Volga Directorate with head office in Samara, will continue to develop the company’s business operations in the Middle Povolzh’e region as head of the Samara branch.

The Izhevsk-based Udmurtia-ROSNO branch, previously included in the Middle Volga Directorate, has been reassigned to the Ural Directorate.

"The idea of establishing the Southern Directorate has been hovering around for long. Krasnodar Area is the centre of Southern Russia with well-developed economic and social infrastructure — a promising and rapidly growing region. Establishing head office in Krasnodar makes it much easier (including the geographical aspects) to expand ROSNO’s business operations in this region. Undoubtedly, the choice of Sochi as a place to hold 2014 Winter Olympics has sped up the final decision-making process. ROSNO does have a branch in Sochi proper. Its operations will be considerably intensified in the nearest future.

We are also very pleased with the performance results shown by the Samara branch. In recent years, the branch has been demonstrating impressive growth rates. In 2006 and in the first six months of 2007, ROSNO’s Samara branch saw the highest premium growth rates among the regional and federal-scale insurance companies. The insurance premium collected has grown sixfold versus the year 2004. The branch has managed to conduct brilliant implementation of the whole bunch of innovations and investment projects — above all, in the retail sales development. It has established a training centre, has expanded the agent network dozens of times, and has organized active cooperation with partners. All these achievements have become possible thanks to the highly professional management team led by Mr. Alexander Mamonov", commented on the changes Mr. Maxim Chernin, Deputy General Manager of ROSNO.