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barcode wrote:In around a months time the Lloyds brand will disappear from Scotland, BUT could lloyds open up new branches in the coming years to grab new customers? or are there not allowed?

But their brand up north is BOS which is fitted out identically to Lloyds but in blue rather than green. Dunno if they'd bother opening branches of Lloyds.

Pete wrote:

barcode wrote:In around a months time the Lloyds brand will disappear from Scotland, BUT could lloyds open up new branches in the coming years to grab new customers? or are there not allowed?

But their brand up north is BOS which is fitted out identically to Lloyds but in blue rather than green. Dunno if they'd bother opening branches of Lloyds.

I was thinking along the lines of RBS and Natwest, since we have both.

What the point of the Halifax? or will that be disappearing soon aswell? Since last year All Halifax accounts, current, savers, etc were all moved over to BoS, The only thing still going is the mortgages.

Im rather hacked off now, How long will it take to fully merge the BoS and Lloyds? When BoS/Halifax merged it was NEVER fully merged as both had sperate systems. I remember going into a English Halifax to ask about something and there staff were rather rude and could not help, it was like it was different bank.

This is why Halifax/Bos were able to be split rather fast.

barcode wrote:I was thinking along the lines of RBS and Natwest, since we have both.

Possibly not for much longer. All Natwests in Scotland were to be flogged to Santander (although its now been called off)

barcode wrote:In around a months time the Lloyds brand will disappear from Scotland, BUT could lloyds open up new branches in the coming years to grab new customers? or are there not allowed?

Organic growth of a private company is always acceptable, I'd imagine that they'll commit to not doing so as a courtesy to their buyer though (for a fixed amount of time, obviously).

Well they're hardly going to introduce Lloyds Bank into Scotland if they offer nothing different to Bank of Scotland.

The only way I could see the Lloyds brand reintroduced to Scotland would be if they integrated it with the Bank of Scotland brand to be Lloyds Bank of Scotland.

wells wrote:Lloyds Bank of Scotland.

No. Halifax Bank of Scotland was equally unpopular, as names go.

barcode wrote:I was thinking along the lines of RBS and Natwest, since we have both.

..and partly due to multichannel television, we have to suffer both the RBYes TV adverts in addition to the NatYes ones too - the difference being the child star in each. Seems us Scots are less likely to buy a mortgage from an English child with a funkier haircut.

scottishtv wrote:

barcode wrote:I was thinking along the lines of RBS and Natwest, since we have both.

..and partly due to multichannel television, we have to suffer both the RBYes TV adverts in addition to the NatYes ones too - the difference being the child star in each. Seems us Scots are less likely to buy a mortgage from an English child with a funkier haircut.

Well remember Howard? from Halifax http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKcbnRvUmA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oURFZPDj1A4 loads of others....

Well He got dumped rather fast in Scotland, and replaced by a young woman. There both comes together to do joint adverts

"Someone asked me the other day, are you going to run off and be a popstar now?"

Aye, so they did ya crackpot.

On a quick side note: Did anyone know Stead & Simpson and Shoe zone are one one company? The first I know was when there opened a new shoe zone in the high street but closed down the Steed with posters in the winders telling people where to go.

Stead & Simpson was purchased out of administration in 2008. The same group purchased Shoefayre from The Co-operative Group the previous year.