Article: PRIVATE VIEW: It's an insurance job.

With its name change trumpeted in a slick TV campaign, Norwich Union has fallen prey to the worst excesses of the cult of branding, says Adrian Shaughnessy

Norwich Union is spending a lot of money telling us it wants to be called Aviva.

I don't give a hoot what Norwich Union calls itself, but I care about how the communications industry conducts itself, and it looks as if it's shooting its big toe off here. Why is Norwich Union ditching its name in favour of a scrap of semantic gibberish that sounds (and looks) like a thousand other nondescript corporate names? And why is it using a misfiring TV ad to announce its intentions? I can't help ...

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