Basel agencies OSW and Meier merge
Changes in Basel's advertising scene: Starting September 1, 2019, the communications agency Meier and the advertising agency OSW will join forces to move forward together.
Nadine Meier, owner of Meier, integrated communication, will join Ellen Zondler and Andrea Knapp to strengthen the existing OSW team and replace Nadine Siegfried, founder and owner of OSW, as managing director. Nadine Siegfried leaves OSW after fourteen years and goes new ways.
Thanks to the merger, the company will be there for its customers even more comprehensively and continue to help them succeed as a personal and owner-managed agency. The team of strategy expert Nadine Meier and creative head Michael Oswald promises an exciting future, the agencies are convinced in a statement on Friday.
The newly established agency, which will continue to bear the name OSW, has already recorded its first success: its contribution for a well-known Swiss bank on the occasion of a competitive presentation was directly crowned with success. The go-live of the campaign will take place towards the end of this year.
OSW was founded in 2005 and today consists of seven people and one apprentice. The current portfolio includes the University Hospital Basel, the health insurer Sympany, Basel Insurance, the Blood Donation Center of both Basel, the Shopping Center St. Jakob-Park, the Presidential Department of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and many more. Meier, integrated communications primarily serves Coop, including in the area of packaging, TopPharm pharmacies as well as SMEs of all sizes.
