Media advisory/Photo opportunity: Standard Life employees celebrate a year of community engagement success

MONTREAL, Nov. 29, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - This Monday December 2^nd, Standard Life employees are celebrating the anniversary of the award-winning community engagement program, Together, in our community.  A collective painting, designed in collaboration with Dawson College art students, will be unveiled at Standard Life's Montréal headquarters to mark this milestone.

What: Unveiling of the Standard Life collective painting at Standard Life's Montréal headquarters

Who: Charles Guay, President and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Life Canada,
Sophie Fortin, Senior Vice-President, People, Business Change and Communications,
Joe Di Leo, Professor of Fine Arts at Dawson College and two of the participating art students,
Standard Life employees.

When: December 2, 2013

Time: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Where: 1245 Sherbrooke W, Montréal

Photo op:  Standard Life collective painting, Charles Guay, Sophie Fortin, Joe Di Leo and students from Dawson College

About Standard Life

Standard Life plc is a leading long-term savings and investment company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. Standard Life has around six million customers worldwide and operates in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, and globally with Standard Life Investments Ltd.

In Canada, Standard Life has been doing business for 180 years. Standard Life Financial Inc., which wholly owns The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada and Standard Life Mutual Funds Ltd., is Standard Life plc's largest operation outside the UK. With about 2,000 employees, it provides long-term savings, investment and insurance solutions to more than 1.4 million Canadians, including group benefit and retirement plan members.

As of September 30, 2013, Standard Life plc had C$396 billion in assets under administration, including C$46.1 billion in Canada through Standard Life Financial.

SOURCE: Standard Life

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