Gallagher Buys Employee Benefits Firm

NU Online News Service, Sept. 8, 2:10 p.m. EDT?Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. of Itaska, Ill. said it has acquired the employee benefits firm of Strategix, Inc. of Oviedo, Florida.[@@]

Terms of the deal were not announced.

Founded in 1992, Strategix offers a wide-range of employee benefit consultation and brokerage services that include strategic program design and implementation, financial analysis, legislative compliance, online benefit functions and employee communication support.

The eight person firm specializes in the health care, banking, manufacturing, advertising, hospitality, high tech and not-for-profit social services industries.

Dan Peterson, president of Strategix, and his associates, will continue to operate out of their current location under the direction of David Ziegler, vice president of the Eastern region of Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Gallagher.

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