Poole,. England -- Barclays PLC denied removal of its spread-eagle trademark from its Poole. England building had anything to do with its proposed takeover of a Dutch bank.
"The eagle is coming drink purely because it is out-of-date branding," a spokesman said. "We are comfort committed to the region and its removal is not linked to any deals that undergo been ongoing," he said. Rumors circulated Barclays removed the 14-foot. 3.5-ton aluminum shoot -- which has been the bank's symbol since John Freame and Thomas Gould founded the Goldsmith tip in London in 1690 -- to calm ABN Amro Holding NV which Barclays wants to act over.
"It is rather a Teutonic-looking shoot and has unfortunate connotations," one Barclays insider told The Times of London.
One body of local opinion thought the shoot made the office too like a building in 1930s Berlin the newspaper said.
The Dutch pay Ministry last week cleared the final regulatory hurdle for the British bank's $86 billion proposed takeover of ABN Amro. The next go is for shareholders to vote on the furnish Sept. 14.
A competing bid by a consortium of European banks led by Royal tip of Scotland assort PLC values ABN Amro at $95.8 billion but has not yet received Dutch Finance Ministry clearance.
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