Higginbotham, a Texas-based insurance coverage monetary and HR companies agency, positive aspects a second Houston workforce within the type of Iscential and its purchasers.
As Higginbotham reaches its seventy fifth anniversary this yr, chairman and CEO Rusty Reid is wanting on the subsequent milestone. He desires to champion strategic progress by bringing on companies and groups that get pleasure from sturdy reputations in native markets.
“Iscential suits completely into our nationwide community of corporations,” Reid declared. “I couldn’t be extra happy to deliver them into the fold. They’re a agency with spectacular progress and an unimaginable fame for consumer service. Our partnership with Iscential will permit each of us to raised present enhanced companies to our purchasers for years to come back.”
Warren Barhorst, CEO of Iscential, additionally desires long-term organisational continuity to the enterprise he based 30 years in the past.
“There have been lots of companies to select from,” stated Barhorst. “However once we began taking a better look, we realized that so many firms are pushed by inventory worth reasonably than buyer and worker care, they usually’re not run by insurance coverage folks.
“Then we checked out Higginbotham,” Barhorst continued. “Not solely have they got the long-term, confirmed efficiency we wanted, however in addition they have the fitting tradition. They’re employee-owned. They’re sales-driven and customer-focused. And better of all — they’re run by insurance coverage folks. With Higginbotham, we discovered a companion that values what we’ve constructed, values our tradition and associates, and needs greater than a monetary transaction.”
Reid elaborated: “At Higginbotham, we’ve strategically and diligently constructed the in-house companies for danger administration, profit plan administration, HR companies, and extra, and we’re wanting ahead to providing these options to Iscential purchasers.”
“Regardless of the plain advantages, the choice to workforce up with Higginbotham was surprisingly emotional,” Barhorst concluded. “Higginbotham saved telling us it’ll be enterprise as normal, they usually have been proper. Besides they’re enabling me to refocus on the elements of the enterprise I like most. If you happen to’re a baker and also you wish to bake, you wish to make cookies. You don’t wish to sit at your desk alone doing paperwork. Immediately, I bought to make the insurance coverage model of cookies: I bought to be again with purchasers all day lengthy.”
