Union Bank’s New Logo Copied
A couple of weeks back one of India’s leading banks – The Union Bank of India, unveiled it’s new avatar, a new logo and promotional campaign. Today however when I was writing some assignments and was out of staple pins, I dug deep into my drawer to victoriously find the staple pin box. If that wasn’t surprising enough, the text on the box was.
The name of the brand was written in a manner which absolutely resembles the new Union Bank logo.
Kangaro is a well known & reputed stationary manufacturer. Their brand – Munix has the U & N written in a manner which has been ripped off by the guys who made the Union Bank of India’s logo. I believe that Kangaro needs to do more to promote their products, it seems no one from the Union bank who approved the logo has used Kangaro’s staple pins.
The logo of the Munix (Staple Pins) brand:
The new logo of Union bank of India:
Here are the 2 sites:
This does fall into the realm of moral plagirism. Unless off course both logos are done by the same 3rd company.
Haha… Well atleast Union Bank’s logo designer changed the colours & italicized it. :P
Most of the Banks are changing their logos, e.g, Canara Bank, Catholic Syrian Bank etc.
What a shame!!! not even bothered to brainstorm a new logo… crappy ppl!
The logo has not copied. Don’t take it as a glace. Try to check both logos in graphic designer’s view. Union Bank logo is totally changed. The shaoe ‘U’ is fully different from MUNIX logo. The both piller of ‘U’ are not similar in case of Union Bank logo. The colours also changed. Font also different.
Main part is – MUNIX is using U as their naming style part not logo. But Union Bank is using ‘U’ as logo.
First try to understand – What is logo? Then comment on it.
A larg and leading – fully Nationalised Bank of India, never copied his brand logo from Munix. Its a blame for this prestigious bank.
For your convennience please find the details of the new logo of Union Bank of India –
Union Bank launches new logo
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Union Bank is pleased to announce its new corporate logo which is a part of its brand repositioning initiative undertaken over the last 18 months. The new corporate logo truly represents our capabilities which we have built in through transformation of human resources and transformation of processes.
1. The New Logo – The new logo is a unique representation of universal symbol. It comprises of two letters “U” of Union Bank of India interlocked into one another – we call it the Union Bank inter lock. The symbol weaves around the word “Union” from our name, which has stood for integnty, security, strength and partnership and ingrained in us over the years of our service.
The colour choice of BLUE commitment to service and RED the passion we being to our work, are truly reflective of the way we want Union Bank to be perceived by our customers The new symbol raises levels ahead to reinforce the properties of partnership to help our customers realize their dreams the dreams in a dynamic global market of today and tomorrow In short, we have captured in our logo, all that we are striving to achieve All these are sought to be achieved, while keeping the existing values viz the bran of ?Good people to Bank With’ in tact.
2. Journey to the new Logo – The journey to the new logo has been our vision to make Union Bank a global bank and a diversified bank and place it in the top league by 2012. With one of the best cost to income ratio of 40.31% in the Industry, the rolling out of 100% CBS branches in a record time and continued addition of over 2 million customers annually, we have proved our strength to remain in the center stage of growing banks of the country. We have trained over 5000 officers in the front line skills and relationship management. Process Transformation has enabled branches to Leverage on technology and shift back office work to a centralized back office operation. By this, our branches have become Sales and service outlets to value added services to our customers. In all, through a 18 month project named NAV NIRMAN we have harnessed the combined might of people, process and technology building relationship through people and delivering with speed and efficiency enabled by superior application of technology. Side by side, we have introduced diversification in the financial arena by tie up in joint venture for insurance products and mutual funds Tie up with Dai ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co, Japan and Bank of India on insurance front and KBC, a Belgian firm with global presence in mutual funds are in keeping With this strategic initiative of making Union Bank a diversified On the global presence, we have set up our first branch at Hong Kong also set up representative offices at Shanghai, PRC & Abu Dhabi, UAE
3. The need for Logo change – We in Union Bank strongly believe that time has come to let the capabilities and strengths built in by us manifest in our external appearance too through our Brand image for the Bank in the form of a new logo – logo that captures our commitment to meet the dynamics of a new market place and demands of newer generation.
4. The Promise With the new logo and the capabilities we have built, we are today offering new customer experience in fulfillment of their dreams and aspirations. The 4 promises we deliver today along with our new Logo are:
i) Value for Money – Our product and services would have great value appeal to our customers and its value will transcend the price to provide higher customer satisfaction.
ii) In all our product offering we will use technology and process to deliver within a committed time. If the time Line is missed, there will be commitment to compensate through refund of fees.
iii) The choices of channel we offer today are 5 Branch Banking, Internet Banking, Mobile Banking, Phone Banking and ATMs. We will help the customers to choose from the these alternatives best suited out to them
iv) We are committed to transparency in all our offerings product and pricing will be spelt out in clear terms and there will be no opaqueness.
The stock closed the day at Rs.145.10, up by Rs.1.75 or 1.22%. The stock hit an intraday high of Rs.146 and low of Rs.139.05.
The total traded quantity was 189958 compared to 2 week average of 217727.
Source: Equity Bulls
lolz dude! Fuck the explanation of what signifies what! Just look at the 2 logos, even a blind man will say where the Union Bank designers got their logo from! Keep the gibber-jabber for the Union Bank’s douche bags who allowed this logo to pass in the first place! Good for the designers someone like me isn’t a decision maker at UB, else I would’ve filed a case of plagirism against the designers ;)
It look like a blue siphon, siphoning out something(money) from the red vessel ‘U’-which represents Union bank of India.
That the Union Bank people have copied the logo is as clear as daylight.
This logo is a copied version. it`s really surprising that a nationalised bank didnt even bother to have a check. This shows complete inefficiency and ignorance attitude of such a bank.
This is a blatant copy. Changing the color and font changes nothing. It is still the same old logo. And this, “BLUE commitment to service and RED the passion we being to our work” is the worst justifications for use of colors. Indian businesses should learn to have more meaningful logos. Look at Mercedes, look at Tata, look at Deutsche bank logo (hell I don’t even know what it means). A logo should tell a story, and this is a pretty fucked up story.
hey dodos, its practically impossible to scan through all the logos in the world to approve one. Dont comment as if you are a freaking god! some ass accidentally discovered some crap and makes a big fuss…and other asses follow..go do something useful.