by Yasmin | Jun 30, 2017 | 1990s, Financial
The company was founded by Sir Mark Weinberg, Lord Joffe and Sir Sydney Lipworth after Abbey Life was taken over, with seed finance from Hambros Bank, and set up its headquarters in Swindon town centre in 1970 under the name ‘Hambro Life Assurance’. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1975. The company expanded its financial adviser operations during the late ’70s and early ’80s, acquiring the Allied Unit Trusts of which it was soon the major unit holder, to become ‘Allied Hambro’ in 1984. The company became ‘Allied Dunbar’ in 1985 after it purchased Dunbar & Co., a small private bank, following the acquisition by BAT Industries. The asset management department was hived off to form Threadneedle Investments, and it was bought out by Zurich Financial Services in 1998.
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by Yasmin | Mar 1, 2015 | 1980s, 1990s, Breakfast Cereal, Financial, Hygiene/Grooming
Its hard to believe that Eastenders has been on the air for 25 years! We all have our favorites but did you know that in their younger days they featured in a few commercials in the 80’s and 90’s? Have a chuckle at the below ads and see can you spot them!
Prudential – I want to be a Brain Surgeon
Jake Wood
1980’s Kellogg’s Fruit ‘N’ Fibre Advert
Ross Kemp
Yellow Pages (French Polisher)
Jake Wood
1980s Clearasil
Patsy Palmer
by Yasmin | Jun 26, 2013 | 1980s, Financial
The Company was founded by Sir Mark Weinberg, Lord Joffe and Sir Sydney Lipworth after Abbey Life was taken over, when they obtained seed finance fromHambros Bank, and set up its headquarters in Swindon town centre in 1970 under the name ‘Hambro Life Assurance’. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1975. The company expanded its financial adviser operations during the late 70’s and early 80’s, acquiring the Allied Unit Trusts of which it was soon the major unitholder, to become ‘Allied Hambro’ in 1984; after Hambros disposed of their highly profitable investment, changing to ‘Allied Dunbar’ in 1985 after it purchased Dunbar & Co., a small private bank; following the acquisition by BAT Industries, the asset management department was hived off to form Threadneedle, and it was bought out by Zurich Financial Services in 1998.
Its forceful direct sales force became the Zurich Advice Network (ZAN) in 2001. In 2005 and following changes in industry regulation ZAN evolved into a stand-alone limited entity known as Openwork – a directly authorised multi-tiered financial distribution network.
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by Yasmin | Mar 21, 2013 | 1980s, Financial
One of the early slogans was Your flexible friend (which was featured in an episode of Mr. Bean); another slogan which featured in a television advertisement was Does you does, or does you don’t take Access? (sung to the tune of “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby”), accompanied by an animated Access and his friend Money (a pound sign); yet another slogan was It takes the waiting out of wanting. Access merged with the international credit card brand MasterCard in 1996.
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by Yasmin | Nov 21, 2012 | 1980s, Financial
The Standard Life Assurance Company was established in 1825 and was reincorporated as a mutual assurance company in 1925.
During the 19th century it opened offices in Canada, India, Shanghai and Uruguay.
In 2006 demutualisation took place and the company was floated on the London Stock Exchange.
The company sold Standard Life Bank plc to Barclays plc in January 2010 and then acquired the remaining 75 per cent stake in Three sixty, a financial advisory support business, that it did not already own for an undisclosed sum in March 2010.
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by Yasmin | Nov 13, 2012 | 1980s, Financial
Barclays PLC (LSE: BARC, NYSE: BCS) is a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It has operations in over 50 countries and territories across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America and around 48 million customers. As of 31 December 2010 it had total assets of US$2.33 trillion, the fourth-largest of any bank worldwide (after BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and HSBC).
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