Aon celebrates as Manchester United arrives in Toronto

Firm's partnership with English football club sparks celebration of the Aon global brand

TORONTO, July 16 /CNW/ - Today, Aon (Aon Benfield, Aon Consulting, Aon Reed Stenhouse) are united in welcoming Manchester United to Toronto for an exhibition game at the Rogers Centre.

Aon is committed to living the values of its global brand and commemorates the day with various pre-game activities including community, charity-related and client-related events in all offices across Canada.

"Our sponsorship of Manchester United is an important amplifier of our Aon United vision - to work together as one team for clients, for Aon colleagues, and for communities in order to grow our firm," notes Chris Fawcus, President and CEO, Aon Reed Stenhouse. "This shirt sponsorship creates an opportunity for Aon to unite our firm while telling the world who we are and the value we bring to clients."

Aon has invited clients and their families, and employees to attend the game, which is expected to be a sellout.

About Aon

Aon Corporation (NYSE:AON) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting. Through its more than 36,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon's industry-leading global resources and technical expertise are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Named the world's best broker by Euromoney magazine's 2008 and 2009 Insurance Survey, Aon also ranked highest on Business Insurance's listing of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues in 2008 and 2009. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007, 2008 and 2009, and Aon was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007, 2008 and 2009 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto http://www.aon.com.

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