The Scholz & Friends Family is one of the leading agency groups for communications and marketing services in the German-speaking world. Within the Scholz & Friends Family agencies such as Scholz & Friends, gkk dialog Group, deepblue networks, Ressourcenreich and Blumberry offer a broad spectrum of communication services. In total, more than 1,200 employees work across the Scholz & Friends Family agencies.
Who we are
Communication and marketing services
Portfolio
The Scholz & Friends Family agencies’ core business is communication. They are service providers for companies and institutions at the point of communicating with their target groups.
- Traditional Advertising
- Public Relations
- CRM/Dialogue Marketing
- Digital/Online
- Specialised Agencies
Conception and realisation of campaigns for advertising projects for newspapers, magazines, TV, cinema, outdoors and radio.
AGENCIES: Scholz & Friends | deepblue networks | Blumberry
AGENCIES: Scholz & Friends | deepblue networks | Blumberry
Public relations and issue management for brands, companies, institutions and alliances through press work, agenda setting, brochures, analysis, newsletters and events. Sales promotion, customer retention and emotionalisation through sponsorship, promotion and event marketing.
AGENCIES: Blumberry | RessourcenReich | Scholz & Friends
AGENCIES: Blumberry | RessourcenReich | Scholz & Friends
Planning, designing and implementing a wide spectrum of CRM solutions like database management, call centre and email services as well as consultation and fulfilment.
AGENCIES: gkk DialogGroup | iPremium Service | Celsius GKK International | Scholz & Friends | deepblue networks | RessourcenReich | Blumberry
AGENCIES: gkk DialogGroup | iPremium Service | Celsius GKK International | Scholz & Friends | deepblue networks | RessourcenReich | Blumberry
Online solutions include brand and corporate websites, portals, banners and blogs as well as digital services like strategic electronic media monitoring.
AGENCIES: deepblue networks | KKLD* | Scholz & Friends | Blumberry | gkk DialogGroup | iPremium Service | RessourcenReich
AGENCIES: deepblue networks | KKLD* | Scholz & Friends | Blumberry | gkk DialogGroup | iPremium Service | RessourcenReich
Other communication services include retail marketing, TV and film production, product and packaging design, corporate design, 3D communication and technical services.
AGENCIES: United Visions | LDV United | RessourcenReich | Scholz & Friends | metagate Berlin | Instant Data | Hogarth Worldwide
AGENCIES: United Visions | LDV United | RessourcenReich | Scholz & Friends | metagate Berlin | Instant Data | Hogarth Worldwide
- Traditional Advertising
- Public Relations
- CRM/Dialogue Marketing
- Digital/Online
- Specialised Agencies
Conception and realisation of campaigns for advertising projects for newspapers, magazines, TV, cinema, outdoors and radio.
AGENCIES:
Scholz & Friends
deepblue networks
Blumberry
AGENCIES:
Scholz & Friends
deepblue networks
Blumberry
Public relations and issue management for brands, companies, institutions and alliances through press work, agenda setting, brochures, analysis, newsletters and events. Sales promotion, customer retention and emotionalisation through sponsorship, promotion and event marketing.
AGENCIES:
Blumberry
NICOLE WEBER communications
RessourcenReich
Scholz & Friends
AGENCIES:
Blumberry
NICOLE WEBER communications
RessourcenReich
Scholz & Friends
Planning, designing and implementing a wide spectrum of CRM solutions like database management, call centre and email services as well as consultation and fulfilment.
AGENCIES:
gkk DialogGroup
iPremium Service
Celsius GKK International
Scholz & Friends
deepblue networks
RessourcenReich
Blumberry
AGENCIES:
gkk DialogGroup
iPremium Service
Celsius GKK International
Scholz & Friends
deepblue networks
RessourcenReich
Blumberry
Online solutions include brand and corporate websites, portals, banners and blogs as well as digital services like strategic electronic media monitoring.
AGENCIES:
deepblue networks
KKLD*
Scholz & Friends
Blumberry
gkk DialogGroup
iPremium Service
RessourcenReich
AGENCIES:
deepblue networks
KKLD*
Scholz & Friends
Blumberry
gkk DialogGroup
iPremium Service
RessourcenReich
Other communication services include retail marketing, TV and film production, product and packaging design, corporate design, 3D communication and technical services.
AGENCIES:
United Visions
LDV United
RessourcenReich
Scholz & Friends
metagate Berlin
Instant Data
Hogarth Worldwide
AGENCIES:
United Visions
LDV United
RessourcenReich
Scholz & Friends
metagate Berlin
Instant Data
Hogarth Worldwide

Agencies
The Scholz & Friends Family comprises several companies and agencies.
- The Orchestra of Ideas since 1981
- Ideas. Love. Technology.
deepblue networks stands for ideas that inspire and technology that impresses. - Full-service dialogue agency
- Blumberry is a full-service agency for topic-focused communication.
- We increase sales and make brands grow.
- metagate provides premedia services for the completion of creative ideas.
- Instant Data is an expert in database-supported creation of adverstising materials.
- Hogarth Worldwide – the marketing implementation agency
- The place where the best minds come together to provide the client with cross-disciplinary solutions
Scholz & Friends Group is one of the leading creative agency groups in the German-speaking world and, as the “Orchestra of Ideas”, unites all communication instruments under one umbrella. Year after year, Scholz & Friends has been honoured with “Agency of the Year” awards.
With its “Umparken im Kopf” (U-turn in your head) idea, the agency created the leitmotif for Opel’s brand turnaround campaign as well as not only the most successful automotive campaign of the last decade but also one of the most well-known, efficient and effective brand campaigns at a national level across all categories. For the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Scholz & Friends established with “Dahinter steckt immer ein kluger Kopf” (Always a clever mind behind it) a major iconic brand campaign. Its “clever minds” have for 20 years been bearing witness to contemporary history and have come to represent the most recognised media campaign in the world.
With its major offices in Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Zurich, Scholz & Friends combines the benefits of a strong, independently run German creative agency with the international reach and resources of the worldwide leading and most creative market communications holding, WPP.
www.s-f.com
With its “Umparken im Kopf” (U-turn in your head) idea, the agency created the leitmotif for Opel’s brand turnaround campaign as well as not only the most successful automotive campaign of the last decade but also one of the most well-known, efficient and effective brand campaigns at a national level across all categories. For the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Scholz & Friends established with “Dahinter steckt immer ein kluger Kopf” (Always a clever mind behind it) a major iconic brand campaign. Its “clever minds” have for 20 years been bearing witness to contemporary history and have come to represent the most recognised media campaign in the world.
With its major offices in Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Zurich, Scholz & Friends combines the benefits of a strong, independently run German creative agency with the international reach and resources of the worldwide leading and most creative market communications holding, WPP.
www.s-f.com
deepblue is the communications agency for the digital age. We combine strategy, creativity and technology under one umbrella. This is how we take brands and businesses to the next level.
The digital shift has unstoppable momentum. deepblue offers the perfect mix of creative digital expertise and strategic brand competence – with a clear business perspective. In short, we bring everything to the table to intelligently exploit new opportunities. At all times, the focus is on strengthening our clients’ businesses.
Established on 1 January 2001 we now employ more than 140 people. Our customers include brands such as HDI, Gerolsteiner, Unilever, Migros, Swatch, Vodafone and Deutsche Messe.
www.db-n.com
The digital shift has unstoppable momentum. deepblue offers the perfect mix of creative digital expertise and strategic brand competence – with a clear business perspective. In short, we bring everything to the table to intelligently exploit new opportunities. At all times, the focus is on strengthening our clients’ businesses.
Established on 1 January 2001 we now employ more than 140 people. Our customers include brands such as HDI, Gerolsteiner, Unilever, Migros, Swatch, Vodafone and Deutsche Messe.
www.db-n.com
gkk/iPS is a founder-managed full-service dialogue agency with over 20 years of experience. The agency has its roots in the dialogue centre business and develops today with more than 900 employees at four offices in Germany individual, targeted and client-specific solutions for prospect and customer relationship management. Throughout the customer journey/customer life cycle – from the generation of initial insights to lead management and customer care – gkk/iPS provides dialogue expertise with all relevant services, channels and technologies from a single source, including: consulting, strategy, creative development, social media, dialogue centres, information and communications technology (ICT) and database marketing/business intelligence. This is how the agency manages to regularly rank among the best in creative competitions and in service surveys for the B2B and B2C sectors.
gkk/iPS works with clients like BMW, Deka, engelbert strauss, Fressnapf, ING DiBA, Kia, Lenze, Maserati, Mini, Payback, Samsung, Siemens, Staedtler und Vaillant.
www.gkk.de | www.ipremiumservice.de
www.gkk.de | www.ipremiumservice.de
Blumberry is a full-service agency. Our business mantra is that only effective ideas are good ideas. In 2014 Blumberry was awarded “Agency of the Year 2014/2015” by the German professional magazine PR Report.
Our key competencies are in the fields of public relations, crisis communications, advertising, live, online and social media. Blumberry develops product and brand releases, image and informational campaigns, advertising, big events, corporate designs, websites and social-media launches, films and much more. Our clients are companies, associations and initiatives.
www.blumberry.de
www.blumberry.de
Since its establishment, RessourcenReich GmbH has been uniting brand and sales perspectives under one umbrella.
The departments BRAND AFFAIRS and SALES AFFAIRS act as independent but strongly connected competence centeres. This allows RessourcenReich to offer its customers holistic support from brand development to product presentation at the point of sale.
The STRATEGY AFFAIRS department ensures that ideas and concepts are not developed in a vacuum and instead succeed through proven relevance for markets and target groups.
www.re-re.de
The STRATEGY AFFAIRS department ensures that ideas and concepts are not developed in a vacuum and instead succeed through proven relevance for markets and target groups.
www.re-re.de
At metagate, it is all about the professional preparation of data for publication. Whether it is analogue or digital media, we make images perfect, illusions convincing and give data a skilled finish. We offer service in the area of print advertising media, including retouching, final artwork, data optimisation, proofreading and colourproof services. In the digital/online sector, metagate provides programming and web development using PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, various database management systems and other solutions.
www.metagate.com
www.metagate.com
Magazines, catalogues, packaging and digital advertising materials. Today, they all not only need creative skills but also require systematic approaches. A corporate language, efficient creation and user-friendly databases allow advertising production at the highest level. Instant Data designs new workflows and optimises existing ones with sophisticated database technology and gives you the opportunity to take various processes to the next level.
www.instant-data.com
www.instant-data.com
Hogarth produces advertising and other marketing communications for their clients across all media and all languages. Our production expertise (across print, moving image and digital), coupled with our powerful workflow and asset management technology, delivers quality, control and savings for global brands. Hogarth has production and language experts based in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
www.hogarthww.com
www.hogarthww.com
Campus Communications pursues an interdisciplinary approach that links the best skills of the Scholz & Friends Family agencies required for the task at hand. This is guided by the “campus” idea – a place where the best minds come together to provide the client with cross-disciplinary solutions.
Campus Communications is based at the two main offices of the Scholz & Friends Family agencies in Berlin and Hamburg.
We provide the design and realisation of integrated campaigns as well stand-alone activities for advertising in daily newspapers, general and special-interest magazines, TV and cinema, outdoor and radio.
https://www.campus-communications.com/en/
Campus Communications is based at the two main offices of the Scholz & Friends Family agencies in Berlin and Hamburg.
We provide the design and realisation of integrated campaigns as well stand-alone activities for advertising in daily newspapers, general and special-interest magazines, TV and cinema, outdoor and radio.
https://www.campus-communications.com/en/

Contact
Please feel free to drop us with any questions with the contact form below. Your enquiries shall be reviewed and answered as soon as possible. Thank you.
Address
Scholz & Friends Family GmbH
Im Zeisehof
Friedensallee 11
22765 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40 3768-1111
Press Contact
Sonja Petersmeier
Head of Corporate Communications
+49 40 37681 404