SERVICES
MARKETING & COMMUNICATION
The partners of B&BA have a vast experience in marketing strategy and concepting. We put the most of our effort and energy in the activation and mobilization of organisations, brands and consumers. The development of a new marketing perspective backed up by a future proof business case is the pinnacle of our involvement. B&BA operates according to the 4D method (Define, Discover, Design, Deliver) which helps us to accomplish the following tasks:
Marketing audit and innovation
Communication audit and planning
Brand audit and positioning
Business Building Ideas
Media audit and optimalisation
Our propriertary workshops focus at growth and a new perspective and are set up in such a way that we reach optimal efficiency in the deployment of knowledge, expertise and time.
BUSINESS COACHING
B&BA founding partners are former CEO’s of large communication groups, know the ropes of succesfully managing agencies and client relationships. Pushing the agency to a next level, business development, motivation of talent and running a solid financial performance is an art in itself. How to get the best out of your agency as an advertiser is also a special recipe. How do you optimalize the effects of your marketing efforts? B&BA developed a unique set of practical workshops and coaching-sessions:
PITCH CONSULTANCY
B&BA is the marketleader in pitch consultancy in the Dutch market. Searches for brand building, activation, digital, design, PR and retail agencies, are the main segments in which we service our local and international clients. The relationship between a client and the agency is a special one. It needs a tailored set up and approach. What is our added value and how do we make a difference?
ABOUT US
The digital transformation that disrupts markets, force companies and organisations to reinvent themselves and to innovate their proposition. Creativity and the development of a new discriminator is now more than ever of upmost importance. B&BA is a “boutique” consultancy with senior partners, who think and act unorthodox and embrace originality and creativity. Consulting is about fundamental insights and solutions in stead of massive decks of consultancy speak. Insights on strategic branding, business innovation, brandpositoning and a future proof deployment of marketing budgets. We have a creative and entrepreneurial view on businesses and the cohesive solutions are the proof of that. Together with the marketing teams we provide an efficiënt implementation and execution on location.
Resume ROB
Rob was managing partner of advertising agency RJA, at the time the biggest independent Dutch agency which he sold to Saatchi & Saatchi. He started a new agency, Benjamens van Doorn & Partners, which had a kick start and rapidly grew into a serious market challenger. After 5 years the French network Havas bought all equity and BvD / Euro RSCG was a fact. Rob stayed on for more then 20 years and the agency operated in the top 5 of the Dutch market. The last 6 years of his tenure with Havas he was also responsible for the Northern Europe operation and member of the European board. Together with Fred Moolhuijsen he started in 2008 Brand & Business Architects.
Rob served in many governing bodies. He was among others president of the Dutch Advertising Association, boardmember of the Dutch Marketing Association, board member of SIRE and the Advertising Museum. Next to that he was jurymember of numerous local and international Award shows. Rob has been nominated twice for Adman of the year and received the Coq d’Honneur for his contribution to the sector. Currently he is founder and president of the Distribution Panel, an informal platform of top-executives in the food retail sector. And finally he is member of the advisory board of Müller Fresh Food Logistics, a major logistics company. Until 2020 he was member of the advisory board of PLUS Supermarkets
On a regular basis Rob shares his opinion on marketing and media matters at BNR Radio, Radio 1 and Adformatie.
Skills en expertise
- Advertising strategist
- Writer, blogger
- Keynote speaker, panel leader
- France afficionado
Resume FRED
The relationship between brands and consumers at one hand, and companies and their employers on the other hand, has been the nucleus of his professional life for more than 30 years. After his graduation in Business Economics his career got traction in marketing and communications. Started at KLM (marketresearch) followed by Pepsico / Lays (marketing management) as a marketeer. His switch to the agency world ( DDB and Lintas) led to a focus on commerce and strategy. In the capacity of CEO / Chairman of Young & Rubicam and Havas he was a trusted business advisor for many iconic companies as KLM, KPN, Heineken, ING and De Bijenkorf.
Together with Rob Benjamens he started in 2008 Brand & Business Architects. This boutique consultancy advises at the the pinnacle of marketing -media – brands and markets. More recently, as a market-watcher, his focus is more on the fundamental digital shifts in the international agency landscape concerning online media, data en creative craft. In this capacity he is a much asked for keynote speaker for local management drives en international C-level summits.
Next to his professional life Fred contributed to a series of societal issues commisioned by SIRE (firework injuries and social media behaviour of youngsters). For a few years he was member of the advisory board of NFL Europe (American Football).
On a regular basis Fred shares his filtered and unfiltered opinion on the state of the marcom industry at BNR Radio, Adformatie and Marketing Tribune.
Skills and expertise
- Strategic business sense
- People and result driven
- Key note speaker / Panel leader
- Inspirator / motivator
- Ajax fan/visitor and Techno lover
Clients
Contact:
Brand & Business Architects
Hofstede Groot Kantwijk
Bergseweg 28e
3633 AK Vreeland
Rob Benjamens
Mob: 0653341912
Email: rob@bandba.nl
Linkedin: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/robbenjamens
Website: www.brandandbusinessarchitects.nl
Fred Moolhuijsen
Mob: 0653943352
Email: fred@bandba.nl
Linkedin: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/fred-moolhuijsen-rm-2825495
Website: www.brandandbusinessarchitects.nl
Directions:
Leave the A2 in the direction of Hilversum and follow the N201. You turn off at the sign Nederhorst den Berg. Follow the road along the canal and turn left before the drawbridge. Now you are on the Vreelandseweg followed by the Bergseweg. After a few hundred yards you will see on your left side the estate Groot Kantwijk.