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The Shelter Insurance headquarters are located on Broadway in Columbia (2021 file photo courtesy of Shelter Insurance)

Columbia-based Shelter Insurance celebrating its 75th anniversary; they have 1,200 Columbia employees

A major insurance company that’s headquartered in Columbia is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Shelter Insurance, which is comprised of 11 companies, operates in 21 states.

The Shelter Insurance headquarters are located on Broadway in Columbia (2021 file photo courtesy of Shelter Insurance)

Shelter’s new president and chief executive officer, Randa Rawlins, appeared on 939 the Eagle’s “CEO Round Table.”

“We have 20 field offices and of course here in our home office in Columbia as well. So we have had an anniversary party in every office, and each office got to pick out their day of when they were doing that,” Rawlins says.

Ms. Rawlins says Shelter has about 1,200 employees in Columbia alone, with more than 2,100 total employees. Shelter’s annual payroll in Columbia is $91 million.

Rawlins says some of the Columbia employees have worked from home during the pandemic, noting that Shelter draws employees from across mid-Missouri.

“We have people who were driving from Salisbury, from Mexico, from Jeff City, south of Jeff City, from Pilot Grove. You know, they were driving pretty good distances everyday,” says Rawlins.

She says Shelter has moved into its new 100,000 square foot north campus facility on Broadway. Shelter has been named in the “Best Places to Work in Insurance” program for four years straight.

Rawlins grew up on a farm in northwest Missouri’s Hale, which is south of Chillicothe. She is the 13th CEO in Shelter’s 75-year history.

 

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