Farmers Insurance Donates More Than One Ton of Food to Community Food Pantry and Salvation Army in Olathe, Kansas

OLATHE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Farmers Insurance Group of Companies® Olathe operations are finishing up a local food drive for the Olathe Community Food Pantry and Salvation Army in Olathe.

“The donations, amounting to well over one ton of food will be dropped off on Tuesday July 29, 2008,” said Vince Donofrio, Farmers Vice President of HelpPoint, a multi-state customer claims center. Farmers is the largest private employer in Olathe.

“As our economy tightened, more and more people have looked to the food pantries for assistance,” Donofrio added. “This increase has created food shortages at all the pantries. Our employees held a food drive as a way to help out. We work in Olathe and many of our staff live here and to know that hunger that affects so many is devastating, especially children and that is why we are so pleased to help."

Farmers Group, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services, an insurance-based financial services provider with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in North America and Europe as well as in Asia Pacific, Latin America and other markets. Farmers® is the nation's third-largest Personal Lines Property & Casualty insurance group. Property and casualty products are underwritten and issued by the Farmers Exchanges and their subsidiaries, which Farmers Group, Inc. manages but does not own. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Farmers insurers provide Homeowners, Auto, Business, Life insurance and financial services to more than 10 million households. For more information about Farmers, visit our Web site at www.farmers.com.