The peak association for the Sign and Graphics Industry ASGA (Australian Sign Graphics Association) and SMIB (Sign Manufacturers Insurance Brokers) a Sign and Graphics industry specialist insurance broker have announced they have teamed up to form a landmark industry partnership.
ASGA and SMIB last week finalised arrangements to partner together to create a strong connection between the two industry leaders. Since 2005 when ASGA was formed they have built up a large array of benefits to members such as free legal advice, debt collection services, OH+S templates and a range of other discounts and group deals exclusive to the ASGA members. By joining forces with SMIB, they’ve now another string to add to their bow, with access to the industry’s insurance experts and their range of value add services.
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| The SMIB team with Nick Sear, Lois Walters and Shane Brady on the right |
Shane Brady, National Manager of SMIB said “the partnership with ASGA is another good example of our commitment to the Sign and Graphics industry. With SMIB being industry specific and specialising solely in Sign and Graphics businesses, it made a lot of sense to partner with the industry’s peak association ASGA”.
SMIB is now the exclusive preferred insurance supplier to ASGA members. Members have the opportunity to leverage SMIB’s many years of industry experience and expertise. SMIB boast a long 19 year relationship with Australia’s largest insurer, and have SMIB exclusive policy wordings across a range of different policy types.
SMIB automatically include a wide range of additional benefits and extra covers in their policies that are very difficult to obtain elsewhere. Having these benefits is significant value for SMIB’s clients, and due to the leverage SMIB have with the lion’s share of the Sign and Graphics markets they are able to offer cover at the most competitive premium rates available.
Shane Brady insisted that “albeit our pricing has proven to be incredibly competitive compared to what is available in the general insurance market, it isn’t the biggest benefit we have to offer. Our value is the cover which is most important, because it is when a business faces a disaster they didn’t anticipate when the brokers’ value is realised. Our coverage, our industry expertise and our experience with high value and complex claims is what gives us a huge and undeniable advantage over any other broker in Australia. We pride ourselves on coming through for clients in their time of need and have done so countless times. We will continue to do that for our clients for many years to come”.
ASGA members with SMIB also get the advantage of having access to SMIB’s contractual liability insurance advice which dovetails into the existing free legal advice benefit ASGA members already get.
Below is a video of Shane presenting their offerings at one of the recent VI shows.
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