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Nationwide unveils biggest rebrand for nearly 40 years

10 October 2023
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New look: a branch of Nationwide in Newbury

Swindon-headquartered building society Nationwide has unveiled its biggest rebrand for 36 years.

The new look represents its biggest image overhaul since 1987 – when the average house cost just £40,882.

The new look, along with the slogan A Good Way To Bank, will be rolled out to the mortgage lender's 605 branches and its head office in Swindon.

Read more: UK house prices drop 5.3 per cent with falls in every part of UK - Nationwide

The rebrand will also mean apps and banking cards will be given a fresh look, although the lender won't be refreshing chequebooks or card readers.

The new look was unveiled as Nationwide revealed it had overtaken the major banks in the size of its branch network.

Nationwide 605 branches outnumber Lloyds (598), NatWest (485), Halifax (476), Santander (443), Barclays (346) and HSBC (333).

The society's Branch Promise, which it renewed in June, pledges not to leave any town or city in which it is based until at least 2026.

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Debbie Crosbie, Nationwide CEO, said: “Nationwide provides the face-to-face service that people value and need.

"We’re the large-scale alternative to shareholder-owned banks and now we have the biggest branch network too.

"Our branches are busy and we’re an important part of local communities.”


Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.

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