- CEO
- Bogdan Benczak
- Full Time Employees
- 38,655
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Insurance - Property & Casualty
- Address
- Rondo Ignacego Daszynskiego 4 Warsaw LU Poland 00-133
- IPO Date
- Sep 15, 2016
- Business
- Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń S.A. (PZU) is Poland's largest insurance company and a leading financial institution in Central and Eastern Europe, offering a comprehensive range of non-life and life insurance products including motor, property, casualty, agricultural, fire, third-party liability, health, accident, group, individual life, unit-linked, dowry, annuity, and compulsory insurance; it also provides pension fund management through Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne PZU SA, investment fund management via Towarzystwo Funduszy Inwestycyjnych PZU SA, asset management, brokerage services, banking through stakes in Alior Bank (approximately 32%) and Bank Pekao (20%), finance leasing, factoring, medical services, assistance, IT solutions, and other financial services such as transfer agent, call center, business consulting, human resources, payroll, data center operations, and venture capital fund management. Founded in 1803 and headquartered in Warsaw, the company operates primarily in Poland with international presence in Lithuania (PZU Lietuva), Latvia (Balta), Ukraine (PZU Ukraine), Estonia, and Sweden through subsidiaries comprising the PZU Group of 88 entities. Recent developments include a June 2025 agreement with Bank Pekao on a potential merger plan to create a €23 billion financial firm, plans to sell its Alior Bank stake to Pekao in the first half of 2025 as part of group reorganization, enhanced focus on bancassurance collaboration with Pekao and Alior, adoption of AI technologies like Tractable for claims processing and partnerships such as with Insurtech Upptec for digital claims, and membership in the United Nations Global Compact since 2022.