MetLife Inc

Missing image 55555490201092150557V1F3_1_01_MetLifelogo.jpg MetLife Inc
Type	Public
Slogan	Have you met life today?
Founded	1868
Location	New York, New York
Key people	Robert Benmosche, CEO & Chairman
Employees	49,000
Products	Insurance
Web site	www.metlife.com

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=MET)). The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company or MetLife for short was founded on March 24, 1868.

In 1991, when Pan American World Airways (PanAm) went out of business, the company purchased their building, renaming it the MetLife Building. The company also had offices on the 89th floor of One World Trade Center in the North Tower. MetLife is currently headquartered in the Met Life Tower, located at 1 Madison Avenue, New York City. They own space in at least 30 buildings in the US and 1 proposed building in Mexico.

The company's mascot is Snoopy, from the Peanuts comic strip.

Contents

1 Employees 1.1 Famous 1.2 Diversity 2 Conference calls 3 External links 3.1 Data 3.2 Real estate

Employees

Famous

• Alfred J. Lotka - Statistician (1924 until retirement)
• Francis Glenn Adney - Actuary from 1933 to retirement in 1966.

Diversity

Metlife received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2003, the second year of the report. In addition, the company was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 by Working Mothers magazine.

Conference calls

• January 31, 2005 - MetLife to Acquire Travelers Life & Annuity from Citigroup (presentaion (http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/NYS/MET/presentations/met_013105.pdf)) (audio (http://web.servicebureau.net/conf/meta?i=1112536453&c=2343&m=was&u=/w_ccbn.xsl&date_ticker=1_31_2005_MET))

External links

• Official Page (http://www.metlife.com/)

Data

• Yahoo! - MetLife, Inc. Company Profile (http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/40/40313.html)

Real estate

• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=115458)