User:16912 Rhiannon/MetLife Operations

Corporate overview
MetLife is an insurance and financial services company headquartered in New York City. As of 2015, the company employs 65,000 people. MetLife operates in approximately 50 countries, and since 2011, the company has separated its global operations into three sectors: the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and Asia.

Steve Kandarian has served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife since 2011, and he became Chairman of the Board in 2012.

In 2014, MetLife had a total annual revenue of $73.3 billion, and in 2013, the company had a total annual revenue of $68.2 billion. In 2012, MetLife reported a total revenue of $68.2 billion, and in 2011 its total annual revenue was $70.2 billion. Also in 2013, MetLife paid nearly $50 billion to policyholders. In 2014, MetLife was ranked number 42 on the Fortune 500 annual ranking of U.S. companies. In 2015, the company was listed at number 50 on the Forbes Global 2000 ranking of the world's largest publicly traded companies.

MetLife Foundation
MetLife Foundation is an independent charitable and grant-awarding foundation. It was founded in 1976 and had provided over $650 million in grants by January 2015. The foundation has worked with and donated to a variety of organizations, including Habitat for Humanity since 2010 and the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation since 2008. In 2013, MetLife Foundation announced a new focus on financial inclusion, including educational programs on basic financial planning for disadvantaged children, and financial services aimed at low-income communities.

Sports sponsorship
In 2008, MetLife became the first major marketing partner of the Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, which eventually became home to the New York Giants and Jets. The company has also been a sponsor of the New York Yankees since 2008. In 2011, MetLife secured a 25-year marketing and promotional rights partnership to brand the New York Giants and Jets stadium, formerly Meadowlands, as MetLife Stadium.

In 2013, MetLife began a partnership with the PGA Tour and the World Baseball Classic and became global sponsors of both. As part of MetLife's relationship with the PGA Tour as "Official Life Insurance Company" of the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, the company's blimps, Snoopy One and Snoopy Two, became the official source of aerial coverage for the tour. The agreement is set to run through 2016. MetLife's blimps have covered the PGA Tour since 1987. In 2014, MetLife entered an agreement with the Badminton World Federation and became the title sponsor of the BWF World Championships.

Peanuts affiliation
MetLife has operated a blimp program featuring the Peanuts characters since 1987. Currently, two blimps, Snoopy One and Snoopy Two, fly in the United States. Snoopy J, a third blimp, operates for MetLife in Japan. MetLife acquired exclusive rights to use Peanuts characters in the company's advertising in 1985. Since 2010, these rights have been managed through Peanuts Worldwide, the entity which currently oversees the Peanuts brand. In 2006, MetLife's CEO at the time, C. Robert Henrikson, extended the company's license to use Peanuts characters to cover exclusive global use in the financial services category. In 2014, Forbes recognized Snoopy as one of America's top spokescharacters, as MetLife's spokescharacter, Snoopy, ranked first in the insurance industry, and second overall in the United States.