Pointer and BCR Asigurari collaborate on road assistance services

Israeli firm Pointer will provide road assistance service packages for BCR Asigurari's customers in Romania and in the Central Eastern Europe. Pointer, a provider of automatic vehicle location technology, is a subsidiary of Shagrir. Services offered to insurer BCR Asigurari includes road assistance, vehicle towing and car replacement, carried out by company owned towing trucks and service cars, as well as a net of local sub-contractors across Europe. BCR has been operating in the Romanian insurance market since 2001 and was acquired by the Vienna Insurance Group in 2008.