Overview: Unitrin has nearly $3 billion in revenues, $9.4 billion in assets and $2.3 billion of shareholders' equity. The company also employs over 7,000 associates. Unitrin's property and casualty insurance operations were ranked as the 23rd largest auto insurer and the 27th largest personal lines insurer in the U.S. out of 485 insurance groups based upon 2006 net written premiums. In addition, Unitrin's life and health insurance operations were ranked 85th out of 425 total groups in the U.S. based upon 2006 premium income.

Property and Casualty: Unitrin's property and casualty insurance operations includes brands such as Kemper, providing preferred and standard risk automobile and homeowners insurance and Unitrin Specialty, providing insurance for customers that have difficulty obtaining preferred or standard risk insurance, usually because of their driving records. These companies sell products through networks of independent agents. Unitrin Direct, a 2001 start-up, markets personal automobile and homeowners insurance directly to the consumer through direct mail, television, radio, and the Internet through web insurance portals, click-thrus and its own website.

Life and Health Insurance: Unitrin's Life and Health Insurance operations provide individual life, accident, health and hospitalization insurance. Their employee-agents also market property insurance products.

Automobile Finance: Fireside Bank's principal business is the financing of used automobiles through the purchase of retail installment contracts from automobile dealers located in 15 states. The company does business with over 5,000 automobile dealers and has over 150,000 contracts and loans outstanding, totaling in excess of $1 billion.