Family owned and operated, The Bottoms Group provides clients—large or small—with the peace of mind of being financially stable. Their areas of specialties include all areas of a company’s benefit package, life insurance and estate planning. The group provides their corporate clients with strategy and communication processes that help companies meet objectives, and offers employee benefit counselors to ensure employees understand options and to make educated decisions. The Bottoms Group also helps individual and executive clients with services that include wealth transfer and business continuation planning. Through a variety of processes, clients are able to become educated on their best options and plans to help meet their personal objectives.
The Bottoms Group is a member of the National Financial Partners Corp (NFP) Benefits Partners and Partners Financial, which are divisions of NFP Financial Services, Inc. This affiliation allows the group to offer the best resources to their clients in order to help them achieve their goals. Over the past few years, The Bottoms Group has seen continuous growth, thanks to their initiative to expand their service resources. This expansion, which includes a variety of communication, compliance, and strategy development tools, has enabled the group to differentiate themselves from their competition. With today’s struggling economy and continuous employee benefit expense increases, many clients are experiencing financial strain. The Bottoms group saw this issue and realized that they needed to offer complimentary and value-added services, such as educational seminars, that were focused on helping clients manage their plans.
The Bottoms Group is incredibly active throughout the Cobb County community. President Gary Bottoms has served on many different boards such as, Atlanta Estate Planning Council, Cobb County Government Employees Pension Plan, and was also President of the Cobb Schools Foundation. Mr. Bottoms is currently Chairman of the Cobb Community Foundation. Senior Vice President David Bottoms is also heavily involved currently a board member of the Marietta Rotary Club, The Earl Smith Strand Theatre, and SafePath Child Advocacy Center. The company also gets involved with many team projects throughout the year, such as a Thanksgiving food drive for the Center for Family Resources.
Founded in 1947, The Bottoms Group has been able to proudly serve their clients with the best options and reliable service. The Cobb Chamber is proud to announce The Bottoms Group as one of the Top 25 Small Businesses of the Year for 2012.
Business Profile
Owner: Gary Bottoms
Year Established: 1947
Location: Marietta
Industry: Employee Benefit and Insurance Services
Number of Employees: 8 Full-time
Percentage of Growth in 2011: 11%
Website: www.thebottomsgroup.com
