TORONTO – Marsh Canada Limited has been named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for 2011 by Mediacorp Canada Inc. This is the fourth consecutive selection to the list for Marsh Canada, the Canadian division of Marsh Inc., the world’s leading insurance broker and risk advisor.

The annual competition by Mediacorp, now in its 11th year, recognizes both large and small employers, all of which are leaders in their respective industries in attracting and retaining quality employees. Companies are graded on eight selection criteria, including physical workplace, work atmosphere, benefits, vacation, employee communications, performance management, training and development, and community involvement.

Marsh Canada offers employees a number of programs, including:

professional development, through access to a wide variety of training events and learning initiatives, both internally and externally, including classroom/instructor-led programs and online/self-directed courses;

• performance-based compensation, with superior earnings opportunities for superior performers; and

• comprehensive core benefits that provide protection against catastrophic losses and opportunities to supplement basic benefits through colleague contributions.

“The superior insurance brokerage and risk consulting services that Marsh delivers to its clients every day is driven by our people,” said Gail St. Germain, Managing Director, Human Resources, Marsh Canada. “We have a strong commitment to making Marsh a great place to work for outstanding people and are proud to be recognized, once again, as one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers.”

More information on Marsh’s selection to the 2011 list of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers is available here.

About Marsh
Marsh has over 24,000 employees and provides advice and transactional capabilities to clients in over 100 countries. Marsh Canada Limited has 1,100 employees and offices in 13 cities across Canada. Marsh is a unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), a global professional services firm with over 50,000 employees worldwide and annual revenue of $10 billion. MMC also is the parent company of Guy Carpenter, the risk and reinsurance specialist; Mercer, the provider of HR and related financial advice and services; and Oliver Wyman, the management consultancy. Its stock (ticker symbol: MMC) is listed on the New York, Chicago, and London stock exchanges. MMC’s Web site address is www.mmc.com. Marsh’s Web site addresses are www.marsh.ca and www.marsh.com.

About Greater Toronto’s Top Employers
Now in its fifth year, Greater Toronto's Top Employers is an annual competition organized by the editors of the Canada's Top 100 Employers project. This special designation recognizes the employers in the GTA that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. The project is unique in that it's the only editorially based competition recognizing outstanding workplaces specifically in the GTA.

Employers are evaluated by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers using the same eight criteria as the national competition: (1) Physical Workplace; (2) Work Atmosphere & Social; (3) Health, Financial & Family Benefits; (4) Vacation & Time Off; (5) Employee Communications; (6) Performance Management; (7) Training & Skills Development; and (8) Community Involvement. Employers are compared to other organizations in their field to determine which offers the most progressive and forward-thinking programs.

Employers apply for the Greater Toronto's Top Employers competition through the Canada's Top 100 Employers application process. For this year's national competition, Mediacorp editors examined the recruitment histories of over 75,000 employers across Canada that it tracks for its popular job search site, Eluta.ca. From this initial group, Mediacorp invited 10,000 of the fastest-growing employers to apply, plus another 2,500 companies and organizations in industries its editors wanted to examine more closely. Employers completed an extensive application process that included a detailed review of their operations and HR practices. Over 2,750 employers started this year's application process.

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