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Canonical common brand names, operators, transit and flags for OpenStreetMap.
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UK bank Virgin Money rebranding #4667

Open kymckay opened 4 years ago

kymckay commented 4 years ago

Became aware that some UK bank brands have been acquired by Virgin and are rebranding:

https://www.virginmoneyukplc.com/newsroom/news-and-releases/2020/virgin-money-begins-national-store-rebrand-programme

Just opening this issue to track this in the index. I believe relevant brands are:

UKChris-osm commented 4 years ago

Is the rebranding of all Clydesdale banks happening now (or soon), because we could add a matchname for "Clydesdale" to the existing entry for Virgin Money and remove Clydesdale bank from the index if that's the case.

kymckay commented 4 years ago

According to their correspondence it's happening across all branches now, but whether that matches ground truth who knows (e.g. there are still "Co-operative Food" signed locations even though they rebranded to just "Co-op")