Wells Fargo buys North Coast Surety Insurance - Charlotte Business Journal:

vinyl siding
Financial terms weren’t disclosed. North Coast Surety has provides surety bonds for public works contractorssince 1994. Dixon Wright, the previous owner, now runs surety operationd for Wells Fargo Insurance Services in the San Francisc oBay AreaBay. Surety insurance guarantees the performancd of one party of an obligation to Inearly March, Wells Fargo Insurancr Services acquired California-based BridgeStreet Consulting an employee-benefits consulting firm that also has officexs in Houston and Seattle, and it’se made several other acquisitions in recenft months. Wells Fargo Insurance Services, now linked with Wachoviz Insurance Services afterWells Fargo’s Dec.
31 acquisition of Charlotte-based Wachoviz Corp., is the fifth-largest insurance brokerage and thelargestg bank-owned insurance brokerage in the Uniteds States. The company has 200 branches in37