Where brands gain strength

From globally active medium-sized companies to social economy organizations, churches, and specialized family businesses: The Brand Development Agency supports its clients where it really matters—at the critical junctures where brands either gain traction or quietly lose it. Because that is precisely the real danger: not a spectacular collapse, but a creeping erosion. When brands start to seem arbitrary. When communication stops taking root. When growth comes at the expense of identity. Our clients come from over 37 industries and share a common realization: that brand management is not a communication problem, but a matter of entrepreneurial mindset. Whether it’s restructuring, reorientation, generational change in a family business, or tapping into new markets... the Brand Development Office doesn’t deliver concepts for the drawer, but solutions that work in day-to-day business.


Over 1,500 solved brand problems speak for themselves. And for our clients.

Katholische Kirche Vorarlberg
Wingmen Online Marketing
raumplus
TREND ONE
TSS group
WÜNSCHE GROUP
Varian
SOS KINDERDORF
Staffelter Hof
WERTGARANTIE
ADAC
aja
BBA (Akademie der Immobilienwirtschaft e.V., Berlin)
BDF
LÜNEbest
NIVEA
A-ROSA
Berufsbildungswerk Adolf Aich gGmbH (Stiftung Liebenau)
BEST-REISEN
OTTO OFFICE
Peek & Cloppenburg
ifu hamburg
INTERSPORT
DEUTSCHE AUSLANDSGESELLSCHAFT
FloraGard
ISOLAR GLAS
KERAMAG (Geberit Gruppe)
Ernsting's family
ERZBISTUM HAMBURG
Stiftung Liebenau
E/D/E
SPHAIR
Dräger
FRANK ORIGINAL
WESTDEUTSCHE spielbanken
PURS (Fine Hotels & Restaurants)
EUROCRES
Katholische Kirche Bistum Essen
CASINO SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN
HAMFELDER HOF
Tchibo
PETKUS
KATHOLISCHE KIRCHE STEIERMARK
KitzSummit
Schulstiftung im Bistum Osnabrück
MILCHUNDZUCKER
AKADEMIE FÜR DIALOG UND EVANGELISATION
onemate
ECE

Our clients' experiences

From globally active medium-sized companies to social economy organizations and specialized family businesses, the Brand Development Agency supports its clients through critical processes aimed at securing and enhancing the impact of their brands.

 

PROF. DR. TIMM HOMANN

CEO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER) / ERNSTING´S FAMILY GROUP OF COMPANIES

The Ernsting family has been working successfully with the Hamburg brand experts on strategic and day-to-day business projects for more than five years. We appreciate their profound know-how and a performance-hardened pragmatism in the implementation. I can confidently recommend the Büro für Markenentwicklung/Office for Brand Development to anyone who wants to seriously advance their brand.”

 

CORNELIUS MEYER

BOARD MEMBER/ MARKETING & SALES/ BEST-REISEN/ MANAGEMENT AG

“If you want to understand how a company of any size can profitably succeed in using the mechanisms of brand techniques, the Büro für Markenentwicklung/Office for Brand Development is the place to go. In the context of working together with Mr. Errichiello and Mr. Zschiesche, the brand potentials of a company are purposefully worked out and staged in such a way that the authenticity of one’s own performance becomes a distinguishing feature. Anyone who is then prepared to follow the recommendations of the brand sociologists on the use of these brand attributes will soon see that their company is gaining noticeable appeal and popularity. And that’s great for business!”

 

SENATOR E.H. HORST RAHE

managing shareholder / deutsche seereedereigruppe

“The Büro für Markenentwicklung/Office for Brand Development has continuously supported the Deutsche Seerederei-Gruppe and me personally over the past four years in setting the strategic course for our brands (A-ROSA, aja, Henri Hotels)The results of their multifaceted work have shaped the direction of our brands and increased value creation. Based on recognized scientific knowledge, the brand sociologists develop practical solutions for day-to-day business. I have come to know the Büro für Markenentwicklung/Office for Brand Development as flexible, fast, and pragmatic and recommend it to companies that want to make their brands strong in the long run.”

 

SIMON KULL

head of marketing & communication / sphair, federal department of defense, population protection and sport / air force pilot school 85 / sphair

Arnd Zschiesche and Olivier Errichiello are no ordinary brand consultants, but brand forensic experts! Through their distinctive expertise in brand sociology, they were able to track down the essence and the building blocks of our brand with all its components, to extract them, and to make them tangible for us. We were spared the common platitudes of many brand consultants; instead, they distinguished points across all hierarchical levels with competence, empathy, wit, and humanity. Their consulting has brought our company a striking step forward.”


Over 200 successful brand and communication projects. More than 1,500 brand challenges resolved. 37 industries, both nationally and internationally. These figures reflect the work of the Büro für Markenentwicklung — and they are the result of a brand consulting approach that does not rely on standard solutions, but rather on a deep understanding of what truly drives a brand.

Our clients range from specialized family-owned businesses to international mid-sized companies, the social sector, churches, high-tech firms, and the startup scene. What unites them is this: they do not want to leave their brand at the mercy of prevailing trends. They are not looking for an agency that builds campaigns — but for brand consultants who understand how brands truly function and who translate this understanding into concrete, actionable brand management.

As brand consultants and brand experts, Prof. Dr. Oliver Errichiello and Prof. Dr. Arnd Zschiesche personally oversee every project — from the initial consultation through to implementation. No outsourced processes, no junior teams, no off-the-shelf solutions. Instead: scientifically grounded brand development with operational consistency that takes effect in day-to-day business and permanently strengthens the company's value creation.

The foundation for this is brand sociology — a discipline that views brands not as a communication phenomenon, but as socio-economic institutions of trust. This foundation is what sets our approach to brand strategy and brand positioning apart from conventional agency work: we do not search for the most compelling tagline, but for what defines a brand at its core — and we make that strategically manageable. The result is not a presentation that impresses. It is brand management that works.

Companies that work with the Büro für Markenentwicklung benefit from over 40 years of combined experience in international brand management, references across four continents, and a brand consulting approach that brings both the scientific depth and the operational experience that complex brand challenges truly require.