Agency description

Farner is the market leading PR- and communications agency in Switzerland.

At Farner we are proud of our leading market position as well as of our history of more than 55 years of solid public relations achievement. The agency is fully management-owned.

Our wide range of services, from media relations and public affairs to financial relations, health care communications, IT communications, corporate communications, to advertising and event marketing, provide you with the necessary base for executing communications mandates and managing integrated campaigns.

We are involved in all main aspect of business, society and politics, covering the nation with our own offices in Zurich, Berne, Basel, Lausanne and Geneva.

Based on experience and size, our methodology is a benchmark and we are able to offer best-in-class efficiency in terms of a cost/results ratio. The track record of Farner is unrivaled in the market and we are dedicated to improve, adopting the CMS II quality standard for our mangement process.

Financial and Investor Relations

The demanding discipline of financial and investor relations has been a Farner PR core competence all along. One of its main goals is to establish and maintain good relations between companies and the financial community. The need for always accessible, comprehensive and transparent information has never been greater.

Put in another way, we help earn the confidence of shareholders, investors, the financial community and the general public in the client company and its management, and guide the expectations of target groups according to the client’s interests (expectation management).

We act as consultants to listed and private companies and handle communications with investors, banks, the business media and other players in the capital markets. Working closely with our clients’ project teams and with investment bankers, auditors and lawyers as needed, we provide

• financial communications for listed companies
• guidance on mergers and acquisitions
• advice on communications in repelling hostile takeover bids
• restructuring advice
• advice on financial transaction communications
• advice on IPO communications
• communications consulting services on financing new companies at different stages of growth
• advice on communications of private placements
• advice on communications of management takeovers (MBOs).