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For more than 150 years, we’ve been dedicated to providing people worldwide with the best quality financial products and services. We’ve come a long way since the very first MetLife company was established in New York in 1868, offering life insurance solutions.

Here are a few highlights from our history:

1828
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is established.
1912
In partnership with American Red Cross, we transform the corporate headquarters into an administrative relief and support center for Titanic survivors and their families.
1930
We help thousands of farmers restore and buy back their foreclosed farms during Great Depression.
1931
We provide financing for the construction of the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center.
1989
Our first operations outside of the U.S. are established in Korea and Taiwan.
1991
We become the first insurer in North America to surpass $1 trillion of life insurance in force.
2000
We become a publicly owned stock company with MetLife, Inc. listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
2007
MetLife Europe d.a.c. opens for business.
2010
MetLife, Inc. acquires Alico to become the world’s premier global life insurance company. MetLife Europe d.a.c. wins the Financial Adviser Company of the Year award.
2011
MetLife, Inc. acquires Alico to become the world’s premier global life insurance company. MetLife Europe d.a.c. wins the Financial Adviser Company of the Year award.

Today, MetLife and our subsidiaries and affiliates hold leading positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. Around the world, we offer life, accident and health insurance, retirement and savings products through agents, third-party distributors such as banks and brokers, and direct marketing channels. For more information, visit www.metlife.com.

Our History Locally

We don’t believe in finding customers for our products. We believe in finding products for customers.

MetLife, Life Insurance Company (Previously, Pharaonic American Life Insurance Company- MetLife Alico) was incorporated in Egypt in 1997. It is the first life insurance company to enter the Egyptian market with a major shareholding of an international life insurance company.

For more than 20 years, MetLife’s accomplishments in Egypt have proved its capabilities in offering and distributing insurance plans & services for life insurance, accident and health insurance, retirement planning, and wealth management solutions to more than one million customers.

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