AEGON head office is in The Hague, the Netherlands. Mid 2008, AEGON companies employed about 35,500 people worldwide.
AEGON businesses focus on life insurance and pensions, savings and investment products. The group is also active in accident and supplemental health insurance and general insurance, and has limited banking activities. AEGON businesses serve about 40 million customers, with major operations in the United States (where it is heavily represented through World Financial Group), the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In addition, the group is present in a number of other countries including Canada, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, China Taiwan and India.
On October, 2008, the Dutch government and De Nederlandsche Bank agreed to give AEGON a 3 billion capital injection to create a capital buffer in exchange for convertable bonds to ease the group through the financial crisis.
In 2008, AEGON became the offical sponsor of the Dutch soccer team Ajax Amsterdam, in a deal which will last for seven years. Ajax s uniform now features the AEGON logo across the chest. AEGON becomes the third sponsor of Ajax (TDK sponsored Ajax in the 1980s, and ABN AMRO sponsored the team from 1990 till 2008.
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