Weber Harbeke loses Converium due to company takeover

 The Zurich advertising agency Weber Harbeke has lost a mandate. It had been working for the reinsurer Converium since 2002. Weber Harbeke was responsible for international communications and the annual report. Following a takeover battle, Converium was sold to the French company Scor in May, which now has consequences for the advertising agency: This year's annual report will be the last under the Converium name. And an image campaign that was in the pipeline was stopped immediately. "In over 20 years of agency experience, I have never lost a client in this way", says Managing Director Thomas Harbeke in a press release. Weber Harbeke was able to gain a great deal of expertise in the financial sector and in handling complex annual reports during this collaboration, it continues: "We worked in shifts 24 hours a day to process data from New York." The agency is also saddened by the loss of the mandate for personal reasons, as the collaboration over the past few years has always been characterized by mutual trust and respect.