In the 30 years since its UK supermarket debut, pesto has captured Britain’s heart, becoming a go-to saviour of the midweek meal. And not just in the classic pesto alla genovese form. From chilli-spiked to truffled incarnations, pesto has come a long way since 1991. “Start with the premise that it contains herbs, nuts, cheese and oil,” says George Leigh, chef at the Birmingham pizzeria Otto. “Then pick the herb or cheese and adjust everything.
The identity “marks the next stage in the reshaping of the business and future-focused growth strategy”.
The company is focused on three areas of growth: global asset management, technology platforms for UK financial advisers and their customers, and UK savings and wealth.
‘Unity across the business’
Stephen Bird, chief executive of Abrdn, said: “Our new brand Abrdn builds on our heritage and is modern, dynamic and, most importantly, engaging for all of our client and customer channels.
“It is a highly-differentiated brand that will create unity across the business, replacing five different brand names that have each been operating independently.
A public health system in crisis
21 Apr, 2021 03:32 AM
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Chris Leitch says the need for charity hospitals is an absolute disgrace. Photo / NZ Herald
Northland Age
HEADLINE: A public health system in crisis
Responsibility for the greatest health crisis the country has faced since tuberculosis was a major killer of Pākeha New Zealanders, accounting for 10 per cent of all deaths in the late 19th Century, can be laid firmly at the revolving door of continual changes to the administration of the health system.
Back then Māori were even more vulnerable, with their tuberculosis death rates around ten times those of non-Māori by the 1930s. Re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, as proposed by the Simpson report, will not change those relative inequities of outcome that remain today, or provide more resources to alleviate the critical state of the country s emergency departments.