At Her?str?u Park (The Childrens' Island), Aviva Romania and the Easter Bunny welcomed with open arms the children and parents participating in the second running of the innovative competition - "The Easter Egg Hunt".
At Herăstrău Park (The Childrens' Island), Aviva Romania and the Easter Bunny welcomed with open arms the children and parents participating in the second running of the innovative competition - "The Easter Egg Hunt".
Bunnies, chocolate eggs, characters from fairy tales, competitions for children, fun, magic... a day full of surprises for children and parents alike! And all this took place on the Childrens' Island in Herăstrău Park on 1 May, when Aviva Romania organised an event dedicated to children, continuing the tradition started last year. Although the competition started at 11am, the Childrens' Island was turned into a fairy tale world from early on in the morning. The games organised by Aviva and the Easter Bunny included a whole host of fun and educational activities, and the children were enthused by the wide range of competitions that had been organised.
At the start of the competition dozens of children aged between three and 15 lined up, eager to demonstrate their skills. In keeping with tradition, they searched amongst the Aviva balloons for red eggs hidden by the crafty Easter Bunny and they collected them in little baskets especially provided by the organisers for this competition. At the end of each round of searching, the children gave the Easter Bunny and his helpers the eggs that they'd found, receiving chocolate eggs in return. The more intrepid competitors, who managed to collect the most eggs, each received a chocolate bunny.
All the children who answered the Easter Bunny's invitation spent several unforgettable hours in the company of characters from fairy tales and shared in a whole host of surprises provided by the company organising the event: Aviva Romania. The braver ones had their faces painted, turning them into kittens, dogs or clowns and they learnt how to make balloon models.
"The Easter Egg Hunt" is one of the oldest Anglo-Saxon traditions, celebrating the arrival of spring and the Easter holiday in some areas. Aviva Romania organised the first such event last year and will continue to provide this special programme for the whole family year after year.
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Points of contact:
Lavinia Orăscu
E-mail: lavinia.orascu@aviva.ro
Telephone: 021 203 84 73
Cristina Udăţeanu
E-mail: cristina.udateanu@apt.ro
Telephone: 0722 406 991
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About the Aviva group
Aviva is the oldest insurance group in the world and the largest in Great Britain, dating back to 1696. Today, Aviva has 59,000 employees and 40 million customers in 27 countries across the world.
The group is the market leader for life insurance and pensions in Europe, leading on the majority of the markets in which it operates.
Aviva has revenue from insurance premiums and investments totalling €54.3 billion and administers over €493 billion worth of funds.**
Aviva Romania
Aviva Romania includes three companies: Aviva Life Insurance, Aviva Administration Company for a Private Pension Fund, Certinvest (purchased on 13 September 2007).
About Aviva Life Insurance and Aviva Administration Company for a Private Pensions Fund
Aviva began operating as a provider of life insurance in Romania in 2000 and currently insures over 430,000 customers.
On 26 July 2007, Aviva received approval from the Oversight Committee for the System of Private Pensions to set up a company to administer private pensions (Aviva Administration Company for a Private Pension Fund SA), and on 25 August received authorisation to administer its mandatory pension fund - Pensia Viva.
About Certinvest
Certinvest currently administers €24 million in four mutual funds, each of them based around a different type of investment: Intercapital (a shares fund), Capital Plus (a balanced fund), Orizont (a fixed-income - bonds - fund) and Tezaur (a capital market fund). Certinvest also administers individual investment accounts.
Certinvest has shown throughout the years that it is one of the most dynamic and innovative administrators in the market. The company launched the first commission-free sales fund on the Romanian market (Tezaur) and the first bonds fund in Romania (Orizont). Certinvest is also proud to support the investment funds market in Romania.
* according to new sales from 30 June 2007
** at an exchange rate of 1 GBP/ 1.31 EUR