Direct Line offers business insurance to suit a wide range of businesses and professions, from accountants to tradespeople, and from contractors to start ups. It’s responsible for over 500,000 ...

Aviva Plc agreed to buy Direct Line Insurance Group Plc for roughly £3.7 billion ($4.65 billion) in a deal that would create the UK’s largest motor insurer. Each Direct Line shareholder will be ...

Feb 28 (Reuters) - Belgium-based insurer Ageas AGES.BR proposed to buy Direct Line Insurance DLGD.L for about 3.1 billion pounds ($3.92 billion) on Wednesday, in a bid to expand its European business, ...

Direct Line's shares increased by over 40% on Thursday on hopes its main rival Aviva might submit another higher takeover bid following its decision to reject a GBP3.3 billion ($4.2 billion) bid from ...

Aviva Plc’s plan to buy Direct Line Insurance Group Plc for roughly £3.7 billion ($5.09 billion) to create the UK’s largest motor insurer has been given the nod from the country’s competition ...

Nov 28 (Reuters) - Shares in UK's Direct Line Insurance (DLGD.L), opens new tab soared over 36% in early trade on Thursday after it rejected a 3.28 billion pound ($4.16 billion) takeover offer from ...

March 13 (Reuters) - Britain's Direct Line (DLGD.L), opens new tab said on Wednesday it had rejected a revised 3.17 billion pound ($4.06 billion) takeover bid from Belgian rival Ageas (AGES.BR), opens ...

When I invested in Direct Line in 2022, I thought it looked like an attractive turnaround and I still think I was right. This investment was a bumpy ride to nowhere, and it’s one of the main reasons ...

Direct Line was founded in 1985 by Peter Wood and Martin Long as a personal lines insurance company that operated with a model of direct-only sales. In the early days, the business became synonymous ...

Admiral Group plc shares are down 7% this morning after shares in Direct Line, a competitor, crashed 26% following a profit warning. Direct Line had a number of unexpected problems during Q4. Most of ...