All the Group's companies, throughout the world, adopt the single name: AXA
There is a wave of acquisitions on all continents:
- National Mutual Life Insurance Company becomes AXA Asia Pacific
- Acquisition of the British Guardian Royal Exchange
- Implantation in China (AXA Minmetals), Turkey (AXA Oyak), Lebanon (AXA Middle East) and Japan (AXA Nishida)