Gold, silver and bronze: all made an appearance at the ARC Awards 2023! Five of our customers landed at the top at this year’s “Reporting Oscars”. All in all, there were 10 reasons to celebrate: 2x gold, 4x silver and 4x bronze for the 2022 reporting year, all from the house of HGB. We congratulate our customers and thank them for their excellent cooperation!
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With fresh ideas, we have won over two fantastic new clients. We are very proud to be supporting ARAG SE and DIC Asset AG with our services in the 2023 reporting season. Smart concepts and creative design are in demand. The HGB team is ready at the starting line to dive into the topics of the insurance and real estate worlds! We are looking forward to these exciting collaborations.
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The topic of sustainability is a growing concern, not just for society as a whole but also for us as a specialized agency for high-quality reporting. We believe it is appropriate and credible for us to have our own sustainability performance scrutinized objectively. In 2022, we underwent an assessment for the EcoVadis sustainability rating for the first time. But we’re ambitious – so we sharpened up our organization and strategy ahead of the 2023 assessment. The result: an outstanding gold medal! Here you can find out more about how we turned silver into gold …
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Reporting, sustainability, design, digital and content: these are the five pillars of our service offering. To make these capabilities even more accessible internally as well as externally, each of them now has a responsible head. By assigning each core topic a specific contact person, we ensure a clear line of responsibility and efficient processes. The new team of five work closely together and bring the best ideas from HGB to the table. This approach makes us confident that we are well-positioned for the challenges in our business. Curious about who these five “heads of” are? Then continue reading here …
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Just because it’s peak season in the reporting business, doesn’t mean we are missing out on anything new and exciting. In March, we visited the fure design conference on the future of reading – 10 hours. 13 contributions. 200 designers, media professionals and creatives. Our impression: The topics and participants were refreshingly diverse. The atmosphere was stimulating and open – and so were the in-depth discussions and networking.
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The HGB graphics team received reinforcement in January. Martin Baars – a true “Hamburg boy” with extensive agency and corporate experience – has a soft spot for design, brings stamina and a dash of punk to the agency. We will be making good use of him in current and future annual reporting seasons. Welcome aboard!
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What a corporate report and a muesli bar have in common, why van life is the new ski vacation, how it feels to hand over the captain’s role, and what her favorite adjectives are – Christa Eickmeyer tells us this and more in an interview that includes a look back at 25 years of HGB along the way.
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Good performance pays off – this is also true at HGB, and why two employees were internally “upgraded” in December 2022. Katharina Marx is now the Creative Director responsible for HGB’s creative performance, and Jenny Beyer can now call herself Junior Art Director. Well done and well deserved, both of you!
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Markets, industries, and companies: Some areas of the economic environment are currently evolving at breakneck speed – and we are also feeling these changes in our own business. This is evident when looking at the development of sustainability reporting, which is becoming increasingly complex and ever more important for our business. We are expanding our knowledge and range of services to ensure that we deliver excellent reporting in this area as well.
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For most people it gets noticeably cooler in the fall, but at HGB, this is when the hot phase begins! We have started the new reporting season – as always with heart and soul and highly motivated – and are looking forward to taking on some exciting challenges from our customers. We are pleased to welcome several of them on board for the first time. Where is the journey heading? A look at the projects shows: Sustainability ranks high on the agenda.
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“Never! I will never stay at one company for 25 years!!!” Oh how easily we can deceive ourselves, dear Christa Eickmeyer: Congratulations on your anniversary and on an eventful, extremely successful quarter of a century at HGB! Her career at the agency is filled to the brim with stories and experiences, and a host of wide-ranging tasks and encounters. For Christa, the focus has always been on teamwork and collaborating with customers, employees and business partners.
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15 times a report from HGB stands at the end of this sentence. Our customers were big winners at the ARC Awards – the “Oscar” for corporate reports. The 2021 annual reports won 1 time in the highest category, shining furthermore in Gold (4 times), Silver (4 times) and Bronze (3 times), in addition to 3 Honors awards. We congratulate our customers on this great success!
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