For help, advice and discussion about stuff not related to aviation. Play nice: no religion, no politics and no axe grinding please.
User avatar
By nallen
FLYER Club Member  FLYER Club Member
#1842848
Time for a rebranding, Ian? Vowels are so last year; time to put the finishing touches on your “modern, agile, digitally-enabled brand”.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/26/standard-life-aberdeen-to-change-name-to-abrdn

(This reads like an elaborate April Fool story, but astonishingly isn't.)
Paultheparaglider liked this
User avatar
By lobstaboy
#1842862
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Rolled out with a full stakeholder engagement plan to explain the change.
Sheesh
User avatar
By Pete L
FLYER Club Member  FLYER Club Member
#1842921
Given the possibility of Pictxit (under the head Pictsie*), I'd have thought they'd have kept the Standard Life name rather than the Aberdeen.

* Copyright 2003 Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
User avatar
By TheFarmer
FLYER Club Member  FLYER Club Member
#1842986
JAFO wrote:Wht ttr bllcks.


Cnt gr wth y mr
JAFO, Nick liked this
By Paultheparaglider
#1843042
nallen wrote:
(This reads like an elaborate April Fool story, but astonishingly isn't.)


Lots of round earther types probably don't believe in chemtrails either, but I ask you how else do you explain the way the world is going? :wink:
Flyin'Dutch', MachFlyer liked this