(21 Nov 2013, 11:59 pm)gtomlinson wrote GNE to me is far more present as a brand to the modern age than Northern which is dead as a brand aside older folk who may recognise it from years past.
Northern was last active as a brand in the 90s. A whole generation know it as GNE. It's won marketing awards as GNE. It trades as GNE. It's online as GNE. To me it is GNE
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