Talk:Aon (company)/Archives/2021

nationality

I note the interplay between an ip editor and User:Mark83 over the country of domicile of Aon. As ever with an intractable dispute, both are, to some extent, right. The solution to the problem would appear to be for the second paragraph of the lead to say:

"Aon was created in the United States of America in 1982 when the Ryan Insurance Group merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America. In 1987, that company was renamed Aon from aon, a Gaelic word meaning "one". The company was originally headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, but this moved to London, England and with incorporation moving to Ireland [dates to be added for these 2 changes]".

This is largely based on the rest of the article, though the date of the move of incorporation to Ireland seems to need checking and a good reference.

The intent of this suggested change is to make clear to the superficial reader that this was an American company that moved to Ireland and the UK - 2 basic facts about the recent history of this company and one that any encyclopaedia user might expect to find readily accessible in the article.

On a related point, it would be nice to give some summary of the number of employees in several of the major countries of operation - whilst the total of about 50,000 is readily available, I cannot find an RS that splits this information down any more than that. If the IP editor is reading this, the number of employees in London is large, with significant numbers in UK regional offices as well. I just don't have an RS that gives this data. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 20:27, 21 May 2021 (UTC)