Transamerica Corporation is involved, largely through semi-independent subsidiaries,
in life insurance, financial services, and real estate services. Through its
Transamerica Life Insurance Companies subsidiary, it is the eighth-largest life
insurer in North America, and its life insurance operations generated 48 percent
of Transamerica's 1994 earnings. Financial services operations generated 40
percent of 1994 earnings, and centered around consumer and commercial lending,
as well as the leasing and managing of transportation equipment. Transamerica
Financial Services ranks fourth in the United States in consumer lending; Transamerica
Commercial Finance is a leading commercial lender in the United States
and the largest in Canada; Transamerica Leasing has the second-largest fleet of
container equipment for rail, steamship, and motor carriers in the world. Real
estate services comprise Transamerica's smallest general area of operation, with
12 percent of 1994 earnings. Transamerica Real Estate Tax Service is one of
the leading real estate tax operations in the United States, while Transamerica
Realty Services oversees a real estate and mortgage portfolio that includes the
holdings of both Transamerica's parent company and its subsidiaries.
Type:
Public Company
Address: 600 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California
94111, U.S.A.
Telephone: (415) 983-4000
Fax: (415) 983-4234
Employees:
10,800
Total Assets: $40.39 billion
Stock Exchanges:
New York Pacific London Amsterdam Basel
Incorporated: 1928
SIC: 6311
Life Insurance; 7359 Equipment Rental & Leasing Nec; 6141 Personal Credit Institutions |
