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Tony Lau Insurance Broker – Burnaby

About Tony Lau Insurance Broker

In 1981 Mr. Tony T. K. Lau founded the Company with the first location in King Edward and Oak St. area, Vancouver. In 1984 the Company, making its first major expansion, moved to the south side of the current Vancouver Main St. building. The area occupied was more than double. In 1992 Tony Lau Insurance opened its second branch in Richmond at No. 3 Road and Cambie. In 1995 Tony Lau Insurance expanded to the north side of the Vancouver Main St. building, again doubling in size. In 1998 Tony Lau Insurance acquired Focus Insurance Agencies at its current location in Richmond Centre Mall, the largest mall in Richmond. By 1998 the Company served the public from three different branches: a head office branch in Vancouver, and two branches in Richmond.

In 2001 the Company planned for the opening of a branch in Burnaby. The reasons for such a plan were obvious. First, Burnaby, which connects to downtown without a bridge, and is easily accessible to the Fraser Valley through major highways, has been growing rapidly as a city. Second, there was an increasing demand for services from our large clientele in Burnaby.

As the Company was planning to set up a branch in Burnaby, a long-term plan to merge the two branches in Richmond was formulated. The merging of the two Richmond branches, separated by only a few minutes drive along No. 3 Road, makes a lot of management and economic sense. Although the rent of the Richmond Centre branch is almost three times higher than that of the other Richmond branch, due to its much heavier walk-in traffic and accessibility, the Company decided to keep the Richmond Centre branch. Thus in 2003 the name “Focus Insurance”, which we inherited through acquisition at the Richmond Centre, was changed to “Tony Lau Insurance”. In March 2005 three months before the opening of our new Burnaby branch with plenty of advanced notices to our clients, the two Richmond branches were merged smoothly.

Source : Tony Lau Insurance Broker Online

Address4452 Hastings Street Burnaby, BC V5C 2K2
Telephone (604) 298-9228
Fax (604) 298-9338

This insurance broker is listed in: Burnaby