Founders and Early Roots
This person became Farm Bureau Mutual’s first policyholder after insuring a 1924 Tudor Sedan on April 14, 1926.
Who is Ezra Anstaett?
By the end of Farm Bureau Mutual’s first year of operations in 1927, this many policies were in force.
What is 5,400?
Nationwide’s first computer, installed in 1955, was this IBM machine that could calculate 800 premiums in eight minutes.
What is the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data Processing Machine?
This legendary bodybuilder and movie star cut the ribbon for the new fitness center at One Nationwide Plaza in 1977.
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Who was the first supervisor?
Who is Amy Pitlick?
Known as “Uncle George,” this Ohio farm owner and organizer served as Farm Bureau Mutual’s second president from 1928 until 1939.
Who is George L. Cooley?
Elected Nationwide’s 11th CEO in 2019, this leader had joined the company in 1986.
Who is Kirt Walker?
Nationwide opened its Information Center in this year, making personal computers available to all associates.
What is 1980?
During Nationwide’s first United Appeal campaign in 1951, associates and company contributions totaled this amount.
What is $13,773?
This was the number of original Des Moines and HVL AUs.
What is 15?
This year marks the founding in Philadelphia of the company later known as the Presbyterian Ministers’ Fund, described as America’s first life insurance company.
What is 1759?
Farm Bureau Mutual opened its first regional office in this Connecticut city in 1951.
What is New Haven?
This computer connected Nationwide’s entire agency force to its mainframe in the fall of 1985; within a year, 6.76 million policies were on the network.
What is the Burroughs B-25?
Nationwide’s radio station WRFD aired a notable “On the Record” interview with this civil rights leader.
Who is Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This was the name of the original documentation form.
What is the AU Business Control Form?
The first headquarters of Allied Mutual Automobile Association was a rented room in this Des Moines building.
What is the Hubbel Building?
On January 26 of this year, “A Future Look” introduced the new Nationwide Mutual name in the insurance industry’s first closed-circuit broadcast.
What is 1955?
Released on June 6, 1996, this was Nationwide’s first enterprise website; 5,024 people visited it in its first month.
What is nationwide.com?
Nationwide won this United Way honor in 2008 for the second time, after associates, agents and retirees pledged $8.75 million.
What is the United Way Spirit of America Award?
This was the first middle market documentation tool.
What is The File Doc?
This name won a 1955 contest to name Nationwide’s eagle mascot, beating out 268 other submissions.
What is Nate?
Launched in 1998, this Nationwide Financial product was a flagship flexible-premium variable universal life policy.
What is Next Generation?
In this year, Nationwide released what the Centennial page calls the insurance industry’s first iPhone app, which could help start claims and call a tow truck.
What is 2009?
A $50 million Nationwide Foundation commitment in 2006 helped lead to the renaming of Columbus Children’s Hospital as this.
What is Nationwide Children’s Hospital?
This is the total number of states where AUs reside.
What is 12?