WPS Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers, formed from the merging of the long established insurance firms, Walker Persson & Partners Limited and Spargo & Co., offers unrivalled expertise in a wide range of commercial and personal insurance. Based in the centre of Plymouth, WPS gives a friendly and professional service to its many corporate and individual clients, both in and outside the South West region.
Our Independence is something we are proud of and we believe truly differentiates us from our competitors. It also enables us to manage our business to our ethos of "clients interests come first".
We are able to offer a range of products and independent advice for clients in the commercial sector through our extensive experience.
Our existing clients range from all sectors including Leisure, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Retail, and Distribution.
WPS provide a full range of advice services including risk management and bespoke insurance programme design.
Recognising the importance of providing a full range of services, we are able to provide advice and support to meet the private insurance requirements of our commercial and corporate clients. Our service extends to assisting clients through the trauma of managing losses.
We understand the importance and value of clients personal possessions and the pain of loss of personal property. We believe it is essential to provide a full claims support service.
About Us
WPS is one of the largest independently owned Commercial Insurance Brokerages in the South of England.
Our origins lay in the formation of Walker Persson and Partners Limited in 1968, with the subsequent merger with Spargo and Company in January 2000.
WPS has an extremely impressive corporate and commercial clientele, mainly South West based, but increasingly across the UK.
Our Goal
Our goal is to be;
“The preferred choice Insurance Broker providing Professional Risk Management, Insurance and Financial Solutions to commercial and corporate clients".
WPS employs a holistic risk managed approach to meeting the often demanding needs of its clients, believing that knowing and understanding the client’s business is fundamental when trying to build and retain strong relationships. We see our role as more than providers of insurance. We encourage corporate clients only to buy insurance for those risks which cannot be otherwise managed, transferred or retained in house.
A Fine Reputation
The reputation and success of WPS is founded upon:
•Absolute integrity in its dealings with both clients and insurers
•A high degree of technical knowledge of insurance contracts
•Our Independence
•Reliable, committed and knowledgeable staff
•Complete and unbiased advice to clients
•A desire to understand clients and their business activities
•Continual contact with all areas of the insurance market in order to stay abreast of changesand developments
•Placing insurances based upon three equally important criteria:
Adequacy of cover
Quality and reliability of service from the insurer
Competitive pricing
Our People
We see our people as our most important asset and recognise the importance of developing strong relationships with our clients
WPS comprises a team of some 32 employees making WPS one of the largest employers in our sector in Devon and Cornwall
The senior directors individually have on average 30 years experience in the industry
Our client management staff are all experienced many having worked previously for major international brokers or insurers
Qualifications and training are actively encouraged and part of our culture. A large proportion of our client advising staff have professional insurance qualifications
Our Chairman, Richard Persson, is a board member at national level of BIBA – our trade organisation and has a role in representing the interests of brokers and their clients
The average length of employment across all staff is in excess of 8 years, demonstrating the ability of WPS to retain its key staff, all of whom are very loyal
