Industries
Marsh provides consultative advice, brokerage, and claims advocacy services through the dedicated industry practices below. Our professionals apply their experience and working knowledge of clients' industry sectors, and of the unique environments in which they operate, to facilitate the requisite breadth of coverage and to reduce cost of risk.

Marsh's Agriculture Industry Practice provides advisory and transactional services to dairy, feed/seed/grain, horticulture (including greenhouse growers of edible and non-edible produce), poultry and egg producers, and red meat producers.  >>
Even before the global economic downturn, automotive companies had been facing a wide range of challenges and risks — including ever-increasing competition and consumer demands, regulatory and labor issues, product recalls, outsourcing, bankruptcies and more. With so much at stake, automotive companies need a trusted advisor with the experience and resources to help them successfully man...  >>
In the aviation industry, air passenger traffic remains strong, and airlines are re-equipping their fleets, which means increasing insurance coverage to protect the higher values of new aircraft. In the aerospace field, creativity in the management of risk is crucial to meeting this industry's challenges.  >>
From our close involvement with the charities and non-profit sector, we know that organisations are working hard to meet their challenges in order to maximise the benefits they bring to their chosen causes. But we also know that they are concerned about understanding and controlling the risks and events that could threaten their performance.  >>
Over the past several years, the chemical industry has gone through a remarkable transformation. The need for product innovation and market leadership has increased. And, the dramatic economic expansion in emerging countries, high volatility of feedstock, ongoing portfolio restructuring, and constant pressure from regulators have also significantly affected the industry. The chemical industry is...  >>
Marsh's Communications, Media & Technology (CMT) Practice provides each client with global and national expertise that helps them meet their risk challenges. Several facts distinguish Marsh's CMT Practice: The core of our business is serving the risk management needs of high growth companies. Our benchmarking tools, team structure, and servicing protocols were built to service t...  >>
In today's complex construction environment, risk is everywhere. Volatile market conditions, unstable regulatory environments, and global economic shifts all represent potential threats to an organisation's day-to-day operations — and its bottom line. But every risk is also an opportunity, and Marsh can help businesses to find the upside of risk.  >>
Higher education institutions find themselves contending with an array of challenging circumstances. Rising operational costs, safety and security concerns, decreases in federal funding and research sponsorships, employment practices liability, and other exposures common to colleges and universities can seriously affect an institution's reputation, profitability, and competitiveness if they are no...  >>
Marsh's Energy Practice is at the forefront of advising energy companies on risk and insurance issues affecting operational success. Worldwide, our 300 plus professionals are primarily organized around three speciality product lines: upstream, downstream, and renewable energy, offering a deep understanding of industry issues within these segments. This wealth of expert knowledge is augmented by m...  >>
The entertainment industry continues to push the creativity envelope with spectacular productions and special events. These new, more challenging endeavors, however, usher in new risks that must be managed in order to be successful. The Entertainment Practice of Marsh provides a range of specialized risk management services for this dynamic industry, with innovative risk solutions for: ...  >>
Marsh's Financial Institutions Practice works with clients to provide effective risk mitigation strategies that can help them deal with an array challenges by providing consultative and risk transfer services.  >>
Staying competitive in the dynamic world of fisheries requires a risk management advisor with a sophisticated understanding of your business. With continuous industry changes, there are new risks that need to be identified, quantified, managed, and either retained or transferred.  >>
The Forest Products Industry Practice of Marsh blends insight and experience with innovative thinking to provide solutions that create real economic value for clients. These clients benefit from Marsh's extensive network of contacts and relationships that includes virtually every insurer in the world, capital markets, thousands of client organizations, and countless service providers.  >>
Today, more than ever, health care providers need a strategic partner with an in-depth understanding of the complexities of the health care industry. Marsh's HealthCare practice has insurance, financial and health care professionals dedicated to solving the problems associated with risk for all types of health care providers. With resources located throughout the world, the HealthCare practice de...  >>
Every day, the hospitality, gaming and leisure industry faces a new and growing world of risk. While travel and dining remain popular public pursuits, demand and consumer expectations have continued to expand with rapidly shifting demographics and the evolution of a global marketplace. Today's challenges not only include dealing with economic uncertainty and the correlating rising costs of doing b...  >>
Infrastructure investments often involve complex, large, and long-term undertakings. The risks inherent to the sector can be challenging and have far-reaching consequences for every stakeholder throughout the asset lifecycle. If risk is not managed effectively, it can result in a multitude of consequences:  Construction projects can be delayed, reputations can be sullied, and cash flows int...  >>
The 20th century marked a period of astonishing breakthroughs in life sciences, including medical and scientific advances that benefit all of humanity. The 21st century may prove to be just as extraordinary, with new innovations and discoveries emerging from labs and research centers every day. Though the industry is one of the world's most profitable, it is not immune to the array of risks that...  >>
Marsh's Manufacturing Practice provides the focused expertise needed to help businesses navigate the complex issues revolving around global sourcing, product recall, or supply chain management; just-in-time inventory management, plant closures or consolidation; rapidly expanding global markets or increased environmental regulation.  >>
Marsh's Marine Practice is a leading advisor to the maritime industry on risk and insurance issues. With almost 600 dedicated professionals worldwide, the Marine Practice places approximately US$3 billion in insurance premiums into marine markets globally.   >>
Power companies around the world face challenges from deregulation, competition, privatization and globalization. These trends have created a vital need for new business models and a demand for new technologies which in turn introduce risks to the industry that are unparalleled in size and magnitude. Marsh's power and utility experts offer specialized insurance brokerage, loss control and claims ...  >>
Public entities face a new world of risk today. Emerging threats such as terrorism and schoolroom violence have added yet another dimension to the already unique challenges that public entities deal with day in and day out. As such, public entities need a trusted advisor with the resources and in-depth knowledge of the business of government to provide customized, cost-effective solutions designe...  >>
Real estate owners, managers, and developers operate in a dynamic industry in which everyday "bricks and mortar" risks such as natural hazards co-exist with more complex challenges, including environmental liabilities, partnership and contractual obligations, and stricter lending requirements. The ever-changing nature of the industry is bound to spawn new risks that must be dealt with.  The...  >>
Retailing is one of the world's largest industries. As retailing and wholesaling have become more global, competition has intensified. In addition to the global economic downturn, today's retailers face a wide range of challenges, including industry consolidation, employee attraction and retention, and business continuity. And as always, consumers are demanding ever-higher quality — at ever-...  >>
In the sports industry, the rules of play change constantly. Sports organizations must deal with an ever-evolving array of challenges such as venue security, the increasing frequency of litigation, and star players becoming entangled in third-party suits. These risks can threaten organizations' ability to compete in this dynamic and high-profile marketplace. Marsh's Sports Practice is a worldwide...  >>
Transportation affects nearly every enterprise around the world. Transportation exposures, however, can present significant financial and operational challenges to firms in this industry. Rising fuel costs, employee shortage and retention issues, credit risks, marketplace competition — these and other exposures can have a severe impact on a company's bottom line and impede its overall succes...  >>

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