Company history

2011

• The world’s largest office products company calls upon PMI Health Group’s nurses and Occupational Health team to manage its staff medical insurance claims and provide expert advice.
• Corporate healthcare specialist Jane Knight joins PMI Health Group as Account Director.
• PMI Health Group picks up the Marketing Initiative of the Year accolade at the 2011 Cover Excellence Awards.
• In July, PMI Health Group celebrated its 25th Anniversary with a garden party.

2010

• 28 members of the PMI Global team and their families collectively swim over 200,000 metres for the ‘World Swim Against Malaria’ appeal to raise funds for life-saving mosquito bednets.
• A study by PMI Global reveals that 20% of companies that send employees abroad for prolonged periods fail to provide them with international health insurance.

2009

• PMI Global is launched, offering healthcare and risk management support to employees travelling or working abroad.
• PMI Health Group’s Clinical Director Dr Trevor Smith is named winner of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine’s Wilf Howe Memorial Prize 2009.
• The Company continues to scoop prestigious new business accounts including Morgan and Kellogg’s.
• PMI Health Group is named one of Manchester’s best employers in the Crain’s 2009 Best Places to Work Awards Programme.
• The company enjoyed a 94 per cent income retention rate from existing customers
• PMI Health Group shrugs off the recession to post another record set of results. Turnover rose to £8.7 million from £7.9 million in 2008 – an 11 per cent increase, marking its best financial year ever. Pre-tax profit rose by 22 per cent from £1.25 million to £1.53 million.

2008 and before

• 2008: Personal Insurance Plan is launched, an online offering marketing private medical insurance and related services to a consumer audience.
• 2008: The Company wins a series of high profile blue chip accounts including Aston Martin, Lindt, Heinz and Eddie Stobart.
• 2008: Matthew Baldwin takes the helm as Chief Executive on 1 July 2008.  The appointment signalled the company’s intent to remain an independent, family concern.
• 2007: The Company scoops a succession of high profile national awards including the UK Broker Awards’ ‘Claims Service of the Year’; the Cover ‘Healthcare Intermediary of the Year’ and ‘Customer Service’ awards; the Cheshire Business Awards’ ‘Employer of the Year’; and a short-listing for the National Customer Service Awards 2007.
• 2006: PMI wins exclusive deal to market Absencemanager, unique web-based data capture and speech recognition software which records employee absence without manual intervention. 
• 2006: PMI is the first broker to offer an online membership administration system, allowing clients to update employee benefits membership databases themselves.
• 2006: A record turnover of £7.2m is filed.
• 2005: CLAIT computer literacy training is introduced for all staff.
• 2005: Commercial insurance division established.
• 2005: Rebranded as PMI Health Group to reflect integrated approach to employee healthcare.
• 2003: Income protection / long term absence case management services introduced.
• 2002: Group risk team established.
• 2000: Major investment in IT. New Customer Relationship Management and accounting systems introduced to improve customer service.
• 1999: Investors in People awarded.
• 1998: Titles scooped in both the Health Insurance Awards and the Merseyside Business Awards.
• 1997: Non-executive Chairman appointed.
• 1994: Chief executive, Chris Baldwin takes controlling interest.
• 1992: Corporate Medical Management is established, providing occupational health and medical insurance claims management, in response to demand from clients.
• 1986: Healthcare insurance broker Private Medicine Intermediaries is incorporated.

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