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The company's branding is centred around geeky insurance guru Eugene Wylde. In 2016, Wylde featured in a video advertising campaign dressed as a thieving chimpanzee, a rabid dog, and a disappointed skier dressed in tropical attire, to highlight problems travellers might face abroad and the value of
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