Integrity Marketing has acquired Southern Insurance Group, an insurance marketing organization (IMO) that focuses on distribution Medicare Advantage plans, Medicare supplement insurance policies and Medicare Part D prescription drug plans.
Integrity Marketing is a Dallas-based insurance distributor has been funding from a private equity firm to acquire many other life, health and annuity distributors. It has relationships with 275,000 agents and generates about $3 billion in sales per year, or more than $10,000 in sales per agent, according to company figures..
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Southern Insurance is based in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.
Emily and Mark Gilliam started the company in 1981. They began specializing in distributing Medicare plans in 2005. Today, the company has relationships with about 6,000 broker agents in 49 states.