Market entry in Germany: Two new additions to "Team Farner

This marks another important milestone for the growing agency alliance in the implementation of its strategy to bring together integrated national champions to form a European market leader in communications consulting, Farner International writes in a statement. "Team Farner" is to combine leading consulting firms and the best strategy and creative minds.

Around 90 Komm.passion employees work at three locations in Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Berlin. The company specializes in particular in the areas of change, health, corporate, brand and digital, and describes itself as a leader in these fields.
Kirchhoff Consult, a Hamburg-based company with around 60 employees, is active in the growing market for sustainability issues. It has been providing annual and sustainability reports for over 25 years, assisting with IPOs and providing investor relations, ESG and sustainability consulting services.

"Komm.passion and Kirchhoff Consult share the same mindset and view of current customer needs, which drives our joint journey: complete, fully integrated communications solutions with a clear focus on creativity, technology and digital," said Roman Geiser, executive chairman Farner International. According to Geiser, more acquisitions are to follow to become a top 3 agency in Germany.

With the merger, the previous partners of Komm.passion Alex Güttler, Frederik Bollhorst and Jelena Mirkovic, as well as Kirchhoff Consult co-CEOs Jens Hecht and Vincent Furnari and agency founder Klaus Rainer Kirchhoff join the Farner International partnership. Klaus Rainer Kirchhof will also become Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Kirchhoff Consult. "With this shareholding structure, we are strengthening the entrepreneurial DNA of our agency group and creating a platform for intensive international cooperation," explains Geiser.

The ongoing expansion program is supported by the investment company Waterland. Waterland has broad digital expertise and knowledge of the European communications market and has already successfully supported Dept's European growth.

According to Geiser, Team Farner's plans seem to be attracting interest in several European countries. "We have obviously initiated a movement and are having good discussions in several markets. We will soon be allowed to communicate further steps - also in Switzerland," Geiser said. "We have greatly accelerated our historic growth trajectory in recent months, virtually tripling our sales since our announcement in February 2022. We will continue at this pace in the current fiscal year."