November 16, 2018
Authenticity Book, Branding, Communication, Other, Purpose, Talks and events

Create innovation and growth by defining your purpose

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Some of the most successful brands manage to look inward and use their inherent potentials to strengthen the company’s authentic brand. This fall Nikolaj Stagis and I held events in a collaboration with The Danish Chamber of Commerce (Dansk Erhverv) in Copenhagen and Aarhus, where Nikolaj talked ...
September 1, 2017
StagisLife, Talks and events

Stagis celebrates 20 years with a trip down memory lane

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20 years has passed since Nikolaj Stagis founded a small ad agency in Odense. Since then Stagis has worked on transforming businesses into flourishing brands. Last Friday, on a sunny afternoon, the first guests arrived at the Stagis office in Kompagnistræde to celebrate these 20 years of transforma ...
May 10, 2017
City branding, Design and Identity

Kolding design vision comes to life

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On Monday the Danish Design Awards were presented by the directors of Design denmark and Danish Design Center along with His Royal Highness The Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and several Danish Ministers at the Confederation of Danish Industry. As members of Design denmark, we were participating ...
March 1, 2017
Branding, Creativity and Leadership

Potentials and pitfalls in acquiring the Pihl & Son contracting brand

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Investors are breathing new life into the well known Danish developer brand Pihl & Son which went bankrupt in 2013. Now owner and board member of LM BYG, Carsten Mindegaard, has teamed up with an investor and bought the intellectual property rights from the bankruptcy estate. Together they are ...
November 1, 2016
Jobs, StagisLife

Henrik Binzer will drive the growth of Stagis

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Today I’m pleased to announce that Henrik Binzer joins Stagis as Managing Director and partner. He takes on the job with a shared goal of growing Stagis to four times the size in 2020 and a bold ambition of changing the way Danish companies think about strategic branding in the future. Director wi ...
October 21, 2016
StagisLife, Talks and events

Nikolaj Stagis turns 40

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Founder of Stagis and CEO Nikolaj Stagis turns 40 on November 23. Nikolaj founded Stagis when he was 20 years old in Odense and has driven the agency for 19 years. We invite customers, partners, freelancers and friends of the house to celebrate his 40th birthday on November 24. The reception also ma ...
October 13, 2016
Anthropology and Culture, StagisLife

Creating Business Insights – Julie is bridging Anthropology and Journalism

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One of the key services at Stagis is our anthropological analysis and the business insights we deliver before setting strategic direction and creating a brand. Julie Toftdal recently joined our team as Associate Anthropological Analyst and will be helping our clients better understand the qualities ...
October 7, 2016
City branding, Talks and events

Relaunching Our City Branding Conference: New Tourism and Leisure Track

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We are excited to announce our new place branding conference in April 2017 delivering the newest knowledge on branding of cities as well as destinations and attractions within the tourism and leisure area. This Copenhagen event is a relaunch of the successful Municipality Branding Conferences (Kommu ...
September 26, 2016
Branding, Talks and events

Creating local and global brand value: Watch the Medinge conference videos

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The international branding think tank Medinge Group and Stagis co-hosted Medinge’s fist meeting in Copenhagen. The meeting was held as a full day conference at Danish Design Centre and focused on how brands create local and global value. During the event, Medinge member Peter Brown, Simon Paterso ...
September 12, 2016
StagisLife
Katrine Buxbom

Smooth Operator — Meet Katrine

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Welcome to Katrine Buxbom, our new Project Coordinator and the latest addition to our team. Katrine has a background in the TV industry and has helped ensure smooth executions of productions such as Eurovision and the daily morning show Go’ Morgen Danmark. Katrine favors following projects and pro ...
August 3, 2016
Branding, Talks and events

Brands With a Conscience Conference in Copenhagen September 15 and 16

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Businesses and organizations are meeting new demands and new opportunities as users, customers and citizens want conscious and humane organizations, services and products. The international branding think tank Medinge Group invites you to two inspirational conferences themed by Medinges new book “ ...
June 30, 2016
StagisLife

Transformation through purpose – new 2020 strategy

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During this spring and early summer the board at Stagis as well as all of the Stagis team has been working on our new strategy towards 2020. The board has set the bar in their top-level strategy, where the primary focus is growth in terms of Stagis’ size and earnings as well as some changes [&hell ...
June 2, 2016
Design and Identity, Talks and events

The many potentials of design

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The international brand expert, Simon Paterson joined us at Re:design to discuss the relationship between branding and design. At the event, we picked his brain on why design is so important when creating differentiated brands, and what role design played in redesigning the brand of the world’ ...
April 25, 2016
Creativity and Leadership

The board and the brand

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In many organizations — and agencies — branding is often considered an issue for the marketing or communication department. However, no matter how skilled the professionals who make up these departments are, their potential for driving a positive change is ultimately hampered considerably by thi ...
April 6, 2016
Anthropology and Culture, Branding, City branding, Communication, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

(Place) Brands With A Conscience (new book)

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Developing brands with a conscience is the main concern of the think tank Medinge Group. The think tank states their purpose as to “influence business to become more humane and conscious in order to help humanity progress and prosper.” Recently the group released their newest book, “Brands wit ...