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British insurance company

This article is about the British company. For the stadium, see Aviva Stadium. For other uses, see Aviva (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Aveva, Arriva, or Avira.

Aviva plc is a British multinationalinsurance company headquartered in London, England.

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It has about 19 million customers across its core markets of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada.^[4][5][6] In the United Kingdom, Aviva is the largest general insurer and a leading life and pensions provider.

Aviva is also the second largest general insurer in Canada.

Aviva has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Name

The name of the company upon its formation in May 2000 was CGNU plc and was created when Norwich Union merged with insurer CGU.^[7] In April 2002, the company's shareholders voted to change the company name to Aviva plc, an invented palindrome word derived from "viva",