Simon, Kucher & Partners

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Simon, Kucher & Partners

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legal form a) GmbH
b) LLC
c) LLP
founding a) 1985
b) 1996
c) 2011
Seat a) Bonn , Germany
b) Cambridge , USA
c) Singapore
management a) Andreas von der Gathen, Mark Cheap
b) Nicholas Keppeler, Wei Ke
c) Jochen Krauss
Number of employees 1,400 (group of companies, 2018)
sales 358 million (2019)
Branch Business consulting
Website www.simon-kucher.com

Simon, Kucher & Partners ( original spelling Simon-Kucher & Partners or Simon-Kucher for short ) is a global management consultancy with a focus on strategy, marketing , pricing and sales . Simon-Kucher currently employs around 1,400 people in 39 offices worldwide, mainly in Europe (a total of 20 offices), including in Germany with 5 offices, as well as in North America (9 offices), in South America (2 offices) and in the Asia-Pacific region (7 offices) and in North Africa (1 office).

The group of companies consists of three umbrella companies: The German parent company Simon, Kucher & Co. Holding GmbH , based in Bonn, whose operational business is carried out by several subsidiaries in different countries, and the US company Simon, Kucher & Partners Strategy & Marketing Consultants, LLC based in Cambridge , Massachusetts, and the LLP in Singapore .

The group of companies

history

Simon, Kucher & Partners was founded in 1985 by Hermann Simon and his doctoral students Eckhard Kucher and Karl-Heinz Sebastian in Germany. In 1996, the first international office was opened in Cambridge (Massachusetts) in the USA . From 1995 to 2009 Hermann Simon was Chairman of the Management Board of Simon, Kucher & Co. Holding GmbH , which is based in Bonn. The German parent company has been managed by Andreas von der Gathen and Mark Billig since January 2020 . The parent company in the USA called Simon, Kucher & Partners Strategy & Marketing Consultants, LLC , which is based in Cambridge (Massachusetts), was also set up by Klaus Hilleke.

The operational business of the German holding company is operated in Germany by the subsidiary Simon, Kucher & Partners Strategy & Marketing Consultants GmbH , which is also based in Bonn and is also managed by Andreas von der Gathen and Mark Cheap. Further subsidiaries exist in several countries in Europe as well as in Australia, Japan, Singapore, South America, the United Arab Emirates and the People's Republic of China. In North America, Simon-Kucher is represented by the parent company in the USA, Simon, Kucher & Partners Strategy & Marketing Consultants, LLC , and in Singapore by LLP.

The worldwide turnover of the group of companies amounted to 358 million euros in the 2019 financial year and thus grew by 16 percent compared to the previous year.

offices

The group of companies is currently represented with a total of 39 offices in 25 countries. In 2012 offices were opened in Istanbul and Dubai . Simon-Kucher has had offices in Latin America since 2013: São Paulo , Brazil, and Santiago de Chile . In 2016 a second office was opened in Silicon Valley (now San Francisco and Mountain View), as well as branches in Geneva , Hamburg and Stockholm . In 2017, Simon-Kucher opened an office in Hong Kong . In 2018, in addition to the new locations in Chicago, Shanghai and Mexico City , the company also opened the first branch on the African continent with an office in Cairo .

focus

Simon, Kucher & Partners focus their consulting activities on the areas of strategy , marketing and sales . In the studies "Management Consulting 2007" and 2011 by the Rheinbach economics professor Dietmar Fink in cooperation with manager magazin, Simon, Kucher & Partners took first place in the consulting area "Marketing / Sales" - alongside industry giants such as AT Kearney and The Boston Consulting Group , McKinsey & Company or Roland Berger Strategy Consultants , who dominate the other areas.

The core competence lies in the area of ​​"increasing earnings and profitable growth". Simon-Kucher was among others in 2004 by the English-language business magazine Business Week as "world leader in giving advice to companies on how to price Their products" classified by Gilbert Toppin and Fiona Czerniawska in their 2005 erschienenem in English Non-Fiction Business Consulting cheerleading as "the world's pricing consultancy ”and described by Wirtschaftswoche 2007 as the“ market leader in pricing strategies ”.

Clients, industries

Simon, Kucher & Partners' clients include start-ups and medium -sized companies as well as large companies .

Simon-Kucher works for clients from the following industries: automotive manufacturers and suppliers, banking  & financial services , producers of basic materials, construction, business services, chemicals, electronics, energy, retail & consumer goods, real estate & building management, industrial goods and services, Internet, health insurance, mechanical engineering, M&A / private equity , media & entertainment, medical technology, public & social sector, pharmaceuticals, software, telecommunications, tourism, transport & logistics, insurance.

Awards

The manager magazin rated Simon, Kucher & Partners after surveys of German top managers in 2007 and 2011 as the "best marketing and sales consultants".

A joint study by brand eins and Statista recognized the consulting company as “Best Consultant 2014 in Marketing & Pricing and Sales & CRM ”. In the following years from 2015 to 2019, Simon-Kucher was also named “Best Consultant” in the area of ​​“Marketing, Branding & Pricing” every year.

At the beginning of 2018, Simon-Kucher was recognized by the Financial Times as a leading consultancy in Great Britain in the field of "marketing, brand & pricing".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Simon-Kucher & Partners: Development. In: simon-kucher.com/de. Retrieved May 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Simon-Kucher & Partners: Record year for Simon-Kucher: strongest growth in over ten years . Press release of January 21, 2019. Accessed January 31, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Klaus Hilleke, Hermann Simon: Service is recognized as valuable in America  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , 1997. (Accessed November 30, 2010.)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.simon-kucher.com  
  4. ↑ Simon-Kucher Elects Mark Cheap and Andreas von der Gathen as Next CEOs. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ moneycab: Fresh wind at Simon-Kucher: New CEOs and a clear focus. March 17, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
  6. ↑ Simon-Kucher opens office in Dubai ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release from Simon, Kucher & Partners dated September 5, 2012. ( PDF file; accessed September 7, 2012.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.simon-kucher.com
  7. ↑ Simon-Kucher opens offices in Latin America Simon-Kucher opens offices in Latin America ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 24, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.simon-kucher.com
  8. ↑ Another record year for Simon-Kucher | Simon-Kucher & Partners | Strategy & Marketing Consultants | Germany. In: www.simon-kucher.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Simon-Kucher opens office in Hong Kong | Simon Kucher & Partners. Retrieved July 17, 2017 (American English).
  10. ↑ Simon-Kucher opens new office in Shanghai. Accessed August 22, 2018 (English).
  11. ^ Simon-Kucher Opens a New Office in Mexico. Retrieved September 19, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Simon-Kucher opens offices in Chicago and Cairo. Accessed August 22, 2018 (English).
  13. ↑ Dietmar Student: Heroes of Work  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: manager magazin , issue 8/2007, p. 34. ( PDF file; accessed on November 29, 2010 .; 1.5 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / Wissen.manager-magazin.de  
  14. ↑ Jack Ewing: Hidden Champions . In: BusinessWeek, January 26, 2004 (accessed November 28, 2010).
  15. ↑ Gilbert Toppin, Fiona Czerniawska: Business Consulting. A Guide to How it Works and How to Make it Work. Economist Books, London 2005 (= "The Economist" series), ISBN 1-86197-702-6 , p. 97. (English; digitized version  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Online at Calaméo.com)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.calameo.com  
  16. ↑ Bert Fröndhoff: industry ranking. Management consultants are facing a new record year . In: Wirtschaftswoche, May 30, 2007. (Accessed November 28, 2010.)
  17. ↑ Simon-Kucher is the best when it comes to marketing consulting. In: handelsblatt.com . July 20, 2007, accessed May 30, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Michael Brandtner: Strategic Brand Management: What you can learn from great consultants and a hidden champion. In: brandtneronbranding.com (blog). August 1, 2011, accessed May 30, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Simon-Kucher: Best Consultant 2014. In: goingpublic.de. May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2018 .
  20. ↑ The best consultants: Marketing, Brand & Pricing. In: brandeins.de. May 1, 2015, accessed May 29, 2018 .
  21. ↑ The best consultants: Marketing, Brand & Pricing. In: brandeins.de. May 1, 2016, accessed May 29, 2018 .
  22. ↑ The best consultants: Marketing, Brand & Pricing. In: brandeins.de. May 1, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2018 .
  23. ^ Andrew Hill: How firms fared in the UK's Leading Management Consultants. In: ft.com . January 18, 2018, accessed May 30, 2018 .