Wednesday, 15 April 2015 16:27

Change for the sake of change?

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Fonterra has wisely decided to stall the expensive rebrand of RD1 to Farm Source.

The proposed new shareholder loyalty programme will go ahead as planned, but rebranding of the stores and milk tankers and other such changes to the ‘paint job’ are on hold until the payout recovers.

At the recent South Island field days the new Farm Source brand had replaced the RD1 nameplate, but compared to the bright orange and green livery of RD1, the new branding was almost invisible.  

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