Comments on: Norwich Union Change Their Name To Aviva

By: Pisscunt2

Pisscunt2 — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:02:22 +0000

http://tvs-worst-adverts.co.uk/norwich-union-change-their-name-to-aviva/

By: Pisscunt

Pisscunt — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:00:45 +0000

http://tvs-worst-adverts.co.uk/norwich-union-change-their-name-to-aviva/

By: Deepthroat

Deepthroat — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:14:13 +0000

The main reason they dropped the Norwich Union name was so they could be free to shut down the major Norwich operation.

Doesnt look good for a firm to move out and abandon a place they are named after.

Aviva though…means jack shit so it’s ok.

The Norwich offices will mainly be gone in a couple of years.

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:01:17 +0000

Well said, Mike. I won;t be using a company which dumps 200 years of UK identity to spend £10 million on changing a well known British name to ‘AVIVA’. My mate takes the pee every day by saying he doesn’t want to insure A vauxhall Aviva/ What an idiot who could let this idea slip through all the nets. They should be ashamed, and so am I, seeing i’m still insured by them unitl this second- yes- the co-incidence is, my car insurance spired at 0:00 tonight!

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:15:55 +0000

But would you buy insurance from them???

By: Suzanne Lawson

Suzanne Lawson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:15:01 +0000

I wouldn’t join a bank that wastes this much money on advertising.

By: qwidge

qwidge — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:00:50 +0000

I’d be impressed by Bruce Willis doing some exercises…can i request that?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:49:26 +0000

AVIVA – could be confused with train company ARRIVA or the hair company AVEDA or even the drug company AVENTIS. How funny ….. ‘ Norwich Union ‘ was easily memorable, a solid company and a good 200 year reputation. Typical Corporate identity crisis. A marketing cock up instigated by a need to shed jobs and a belief that it could be concealed in the expensive razzmatazz of a brand relaunch!…….I don’t think the average consumer is impressed by the exercise.

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:08:24 +0000

In’t MILK brilliant??

Always puts a smile on my face

By: dungeoneer

dungeoneer — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:51:12 +0000

…unless your the guy on Dragon’s den who invented the ‘thingy’…. what a cock.

By: dungeoneer

dungeoneer — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:50:04 +0000

oh my god, the Paul Whitehouse adverts are soooo freeky! he looks horrible.

I workfor Norwich Union / Aviva but the name change doesnt effect me cos i deal with Abbey, Barclays, Co-op etc all the companies that dont want to be associated with Norwich Union but you guessed all their policies are our bitches. Fuck em i hate deception – names mean nothing!

By: Nibor

Nibor — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:41:40 +0000

I quite liked the new one where he’s some goth thing going on about his bargains. Sorta goth/that everythings brilliant guy from the fast show.

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:44:57 +0000

Nah, he sold his sole to Satan…. He lost he Soul in the seventies in a rigged game of spin the bottle….

By: Archer

Archer — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:39:50 +0000

His what? His sole? That wouldn’t be a spelling mistake, would it?

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:15:44 +0000

Fucking Bastards. How dare they destroy Paul Whitehouse? Poor Paul, first he has a queue of kids trying to take a shit in his bog, now his sole has been bought by Satan… In’t Aviva Brilliant!!

By: Smithery Baggins

Smithery Baggins — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:21:31 +0000

Didn’t you just love the old Norwich Union ads with a 1st person perspective of some idiot called happy…no, me neither. HAPPY? Why the fuck was he called that? I know their slogan was ‘quote me happy’ (possibly the worst slogan ever) but I don’t see the logic. The worst thing though is they were actually trying to be funny, which they were…if you are a complete moron.

By: Nibor

Nibor — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:42:50 +0000

The funniest thing i think about these ads is that they have Ringo in one says he’d never have been so famous without his stage name. Then in another advert soon after and also overlapping (screening wise) he says “Don’t call me by my stage name!” As it has him turning up at an airport in some asian country presumably with an asian guy waiting with RINGO written on the type of sign people hold up at airports if they’re your chauffeur.

By: james

james — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:12:09 +0000

I’m glad people on this site know what they are talking about and know the true reality of this company. Just look at their track record as Norwich Union, theri pay out on endowments and how they’ve gobbled up share holders money as share prices have tumbled.

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:07:51 +0000

I forgot about those…. I would have thought they’d all be piles of rust by now…. I don’t think we give our forebears the credit they are due, driving round in a thin tin box, fragile glass that will shatter into sharp face cutting shards if you sneeze against it, no power steering, no airbags, no seatbelts, brakes made by Weetabix, electrics fitted by a skills centre reject, a petrol tank that holds about 9,000,000 litres because they measured miles per gallon back then, and you were lucky if you got 15 MPG in an entry level saloon. They were brave in the 60s, brave or stoned.

By: geoff knight

geoff knight — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:58:02 +0000

Vauxhall used to make a car called A VIVA.