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- Buruj Cooperative Insurance Company (8270.SR) provides a range of general non-life insurance products to individuals and businesses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The company operates through segments including motor insurance, offering comprehensive and unified compulsory motor coverage against losses, liability, death, bodily injuries, and property damage, with options for extended personal accident and third-party coverage; medical insurance, including medical malpractice policies for bodily or mental injuries, diseases, or death due to negligence; property and casualty insurance, covering fire, property damage, workers' compensation, fidelity guarantee, electronic equipment, refrigerated inventory, machinery breakdown, loss of profits, public liability, and boiler and pressure vessel risks; marine insurance for cargo, sea voyages, and inland transit; engineering insurance such as erection all risks, contractors' plant and machinery, and factory installation; as well as travel insurance, group personal accident, professional indemnity, and extended warranty products. Buruj maintains regional offices in Riyadh, Jeddah, and Al-Khobar, supported by a network of agents and an electronic sales platform serving personal and commercial customers across the Kingdom.
Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Riyadh on Al Thoumamah Road, An Nada District, the company traces its insurance market presence to 1979 through prior agency operations and listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) in February 2010 with a share capital of SAR 300 million. It functions as a Saudi joint-stock cooperative insurer regulated by the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) and later the Insurance Authority.
In a major strategic development, Buruj completes its merger into Mediterranean and Gulf Cooperative Insurance and Reinsurance Company (Medgulf) in late 2025, following binding agreement in July 2025 and approval by general assemblies on October 23, 2025; under the terms, all of Buruj's assets, liabilities, rights, and contracts transfer to Medgulf, which issues 33,157,894 new shares of SAR 10 nominal value to Buruj shareholders, marking the first public merger under the new Insurance Authority framework and enhancing scale in Saudi Arabia's consolidating insurance sector.