ESURANCE SALES CENTER HEATS UP COMPETITION:

Esurance, a direct-to-consumer auto insurance company is opening a new sales center in Tampa and will hire 25 new sales representatives in 2005. The center will supplement activities at the company’s Tampa Regional Sales Office. It will handle East Coast sales inquiries, while Esurance’s Sioux Falls, S.D., sales center will answer sales inquiries from the rest of the country.