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tillyoshea wrote: Tue 26 Jun, 2018 20.12 Retail Week is reporting a planned major rebrand by John Lewis and Waitrose to "John Lewis & Partners" and "Waitrose & Partners" respectively.

Gut reaction: feels like a bit of a stunt that'll be forgotten in a couple of years. Though, in fairness, that's not usually JLP's style.

And Waitrose Camden is being sold to Aldi

Sad they're ditching the green. The new logos just look like M&S.

Also ditching that iconic font

It was one of the reasons I hated them renaming Bainbridge in Newcastle. It was so clearly John Lewis bc it had that font.

Pete wrote: Thu 28 Jun, 2018 01.26 Also ditching that iconic font

It was one of the reasons I hated them renaming Bainbridge in Newcastle. It was so clearly John Lewis bc it had that font.

Are you sure Bainbridge got a version with the 00s font? All the named stores I knew (Jessops of Nottingham, Bonds of Norwich and Cole Brothers of Sheffield) were branded with this font:


and all were rebranded in the early 00s as John Lewis with the logo they've just replaced. The only store I knew of which got branding with the new font was Peter Jones (which retains it to this day, for some reason possibly related to its Royal Warrants):

I think the George Henry Lee brand was dropped when they moved the store to Liverpool One.

Those black and white logos are awful - competely bland and generic.

Also, I can't wait for my local petrol station to adopt the snappy moniker of "Little Waitrose & Partners at Shell Select".

Tesco are due to rebrand some of their stores (along with opening some mothballed stores) as a new brand of discount store to compete with Aldi and Lidl, called Jack's after their founder Jack Cohen.

A Tesco subsidery PTLL Ltd. has lodged the following with the trademarks office.

Debenhams seem to be rebranding.

First major rebranding since the 80s, surely? Apart from getting rid of the stylised D in the mid-90s anyway.

james2001 wrote: Mon 03 Sep, 2018 19.55 First major rebranding since the 80s, surely? Apart from getting rid of the stylised D in the mid-90s anyway.

At first sight, I thought the D in the new logotype echoed that stylised D - but after looking it up, it's rather different to how I remembered it.