In early 2011, <strong>Falck</strong> entered into an agreement to provide roadside assistance to the customers of Norway’s largest insurance company, Gjensidige. The agreement covers approximately 700,000 vehicles, and with the new partnership, <strong>Falck</strong>’s responses to Norwegian car owners are expected to increase from 120,000 annually to around 170,000. More than 200,000 car owners from one of Denmark’s largest insurance companies, Topdanmark, gained <strong>Falck</strong> as their provider of roadside assistance in the course of the year; this collaboration with Topdanmark was expanded to also cover the insurer’s industrial and agricultural customers. <strong>Falck</strong>’s customers in Denmark have readily accepted the new offer of a rental car when their own car is in for repair: 80 passenger cars with the <strong>Falck</strong> logo and colour can now be seen on the roads of Denmark. In the business market, 2,500 busses have been equipped with <strong>Falck</strong> Sirius Eco Drive, and an additional 500 are scheduled to have the system installed. <strong>Falck</strong> Sirius Eco Drive is a fleet management system which measures driver behaviour, providing an opportunity to promote more environmentally friendly and economical driving. In home services, more <strong>Falck</strong> subscribers needed assistance when a number of heavy rainfalls in August flooded basements and caused other water damage across Denmark. Revenue DKK million 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 06 07 08 09 10 Organic growth % 10 8 6 4 2 0 Growth in the alarm market continued in <strong>2010</strong>: in Denmark, about one in three alarms sold was a <strong>Falck</strong> Alarm. <strong>Falck</strong> has also begun selling alarms in Sweden. To provide customers with even better opportunities to safeguard their homes and property, <strong>Falck</strong> acquired Smart Safety, a Swedish company with revenues of DKK 100 million per year. Smart Safety provides a number of subscription-based safety services, including recording bicycles in a register which helps retrieve and return them to their rightful owners if stolen. The company also offers an easy and convenient credit card blocking service and a service for fast return of lost keys with a <strong>Falck</strong> key tag. <strong>Falck</strong> TravelCare won a contract in <strong>2010</strong> to provide travel assistance to Topdanmark customers, and a contract for similar services has been entered into with another Danish insurance company, Alka, effective 1 January 2011. Moreover, <strong>Falck</strong> TravelCare already has agreements for travel care services with the Swedish government, Swedish insurance company Folksam and travel agency Apollo. In <strong>2010</strong>, <strong>Falck</strong> provided assistance services to 1.3 million private customers, 100,000 of whom were served through public institutions and private-sector companies. The SmartSafety acquisition added more than 500,000 new customers, bringing <strong>Falck</strong>’s total customer portfolio to 1.8 million by the end of <strong>2010</strong>. <strong>Falck</strong> provided a total of 1,458,000 responses over the course of the year, a 12% year-on-year increase. 06 07 08 09 10 Management review | <strong>Falck</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2010</strong> 13 Subscribers 2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 0 06 07 08 09 10
Emergency Valnizete Trindade de Moura, age 29, nurse, helps an injured person in Brazil. <strong>Falck</strong> established a presence in the Brazilian market in <strong>2010</strong> and now operates 121 ambulances and has around 1,000 employees.