Company Background

  • Brothers John, Paul and Bill Amos founded Aflac in 1955.
  • Aflac is a Fortune 500 company.
  • Aflac Incorporated is an international holding company based in Columbus, Georgia.
  • Aflac introduced one of the world's first cancer expense insurance policies in 1958.
  • Since the 1980s, Aflac has added many new insurance policies, including accident, short-term disability, hospital intensive care, hospital confinement indemnity, long-term care, specified health event, life, dental and vision.
  • Aflac has the largest on-site child-care facilities in Georgia: Imagination Station and Imagination Station Too. Together, the facilities have capacity for 540 children.

Business Statistics

  • Aflac has a presence in all 50 United States and in U.S. territories.
  • Aflac has more than 69,000 licensed agents.
  • Aflac offers a broad line of insurance policies to more than 400,000 U.S. payroll groups.
  • Aflac insures more than 40 million people worldwide.
  • Assets at year-end 2007 totaled more than $65 billion with annual revenues of more than $15.4 billion.
  • Aflac has received an A+ (Superior) rating from A.M. Best (June 26, 2007).
  • Standard & Poor's rates Aflac AA in insurer financial strength (June 2006).

Aflac Japan

  • The Weekly Toyo Keizai magazine ranked Aflac Japan first in its overall ranking of life insurance companies in terms of growth, profitability, assets, solvency margin and persistency, based on March 31, 2005, fiscal year figures (October 22, 2005).
  • In its annual survey rating of the popularity of life insurance companies, the Nikkei Financial Daily ranked Aflac Japan number one in the Low Premiums and Ability to Develop New Products categories, and number five overall. The responses of 1,086 publicly held nonfinancial companies rated each life insurance company in eight categories (January 5, 2007).
  • According to the Nikkei Veritas report on the fiscal earnings of 18 major life insurers, Aflac Japan was ranked number one in the profitability category and number five overall (June 9, 2008).
  • Aflac Japan received top honors as the Life Insurance Company of the Year during the ninth annual Asia Insurance Industry Awards held in Tokyo on October 26, 2005. The award was sponsored by the Asia Insurance Review, a premiere and comprehensive professional insurance industry magazine in Asia.
  • Aflac Japan insures one in four Japanese households.
  • Aflac has continued to broaden its product line in Japan. Noncancer products now account for about 70 percent of new sales.

Philanthropic Endeavors

  • Aflac Incorporated and Aflac sales associates have contributed over $40 million to the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
  • In 2004, Aflac contributed $250,000 to CureSearch toward its adolescent and young adult programs.
  • Aflac has an ongoing commitment to the Child Life Therapy Program at the Morrell Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders, which is housed in the Children's Hospital at Albany Medical Center in New York.
  • Aflac has an ongoing commitment to the University of Nebraska Medical Center to establish the Aflac Fund for Childhood Cancer Patients and Families.
  • In 1999, Aflac became a founding sponsor of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) and has an ongoing commitment with the AACR to continue to expand the travel awards program and other initiatives designed to meet the needs of early career cancer investigators.
  • In 1997, Aflac committed $1.5 million to establish the Aflac Chair for Cancer Research at USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles.

National Recognition

  • In 2008, Aflac was named to Fortune magazine's list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America for the tenth consecutive year.
  • In March 2007, Fortune magazine named Aflac to its list of America's Most Admired Companies for the seventh consecutive year.
  • In June 2008, Black Enterprise magazine named Aflac to its list of the 40 Best Companies for Diversity for the fourth consecutive year.
  • In May 2005, Essence magazine ranked Aflac as one of the top three companies from the Fortune 1000 where African-American women are finding success.
  • In February 2006, Aflac was named to Hispanic magazine's list of the 100 companies providing the most opportunities to Hispanics. Aflac has appeared on the annual list since 1993.
  • In February 2007, Hispanic Trends magazine named Aflac as one of the 50 leading companies for supplier diversity.
  • In February/March 2008, Hispanic Enterprise magazine named Aflac as one of the 50 leading companies for supplier diversity.
  • For eight years, Latina Style magazine named Aflac as one of the 50 Best Companies for Latinas to work for in the United States (August 2007).
  • In June 2008, CIO magazine named Aflac to its list of the 100 companies offering the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in IT.
  • Aflac is on Information Week’s annual list of the 500 most innovative users of corporate technology (September 17, 2007).
  • Aflac is No. 34 on Computerworld magazine’s list of the 100 Best Places to Work in IT. Aflac has been included on this annual list since 1999.
  • In October 2006, Working Mother magazine named Aflac to its list of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers for the fifth time.
  • In 2007, for the second year in a row, the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta was ranked in America's top five children’s hospitals for cancer care by Child magazine.
  • In June 2008, Aflac was named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere magazine for the second consecutive year.
  • In June 2008, the Reputation Institute named Aflac as the most respected company in the U.S. insurance industry.
  • In September 2007, Aflac and the Aflac Cancer Center were awarded the Partnership Award by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.