Throwback Thursday: War opens Lloyd’s; Royal spending
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to January 1991 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when the Gulf War saw Lloyd’s remain open at the weekend and Royal, now known as Intact, wanted to raise brand awareness.
24 January 1991: War opens Lloyd’sThe start of the Gulf War saw Lloyd’s open on Saturday and Sunday for the first time in its 300-year history.
The decision to open over the weekend “was taken for the
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