Desjardins Group
Desjardins Group is a major cooperative financial group in Canada. It was founded by Alphonse Desjardins in Levis, Quebec around the 1900's. It has two headquarters. One of the headquarters is situated in Levis, Quebec since it is where it was founded. The other is situated at Montreal, Canada. As of 2006, Desjardins Group has around 40,000 employees. Its system now has 11 regional federations to properly manage their branches which are estimated to be around 536. It is crucial to stay organized even though the group has just earned an asset of $144B in the past year.
For the Desjardins Group, it is very important to make sure that the people are aware of their services. It includes creating a savings account, cars and home insurance, and credit cards to name a few. Desjardins Group has plans and programs for all ages, for teens, for newcomers in Canada to parents. Aside from that, projects that are designed to help their loyal patrons and even new members plan everything so that they will not have to busy themselves with financial planning of the necessities that they are planning to buy. These necessities include buying a house, a vehicle or even adopting a child.
One might think that since they have already earned an unimaginable asset in the past year, they will stop finding ways to expand their company. On the contrary, they are looking for the right opportunity to expand to other countries as well. This is a company that does not take anything for granted. For them, their success is the proof that improvements make a company larger than it already is.