Who We Are
Uniplan is a privately owned and independent brand experience agency.
With more than sixty years of experience under our belt, we approach each project with passion, pulling together the best team and putting our clients at the heart of everything we do.
Our eight offices are located right at the centre of the action. That's where we blend the digital and the real to deliver creative excellence.
Faces of Uniplan
We are a group of believers with good instincts and uncommon curiosity — Always excited to start a new conversation.
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- Christian Zimmermann
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- Global CEO
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- Rüdiger Maeßen
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- CEO Europe
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- Europe
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- Judd Christie
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- CEO Greater China
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- Hong Kong
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- Melanie Mucha
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- Chief People & Culture Officer
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- Todd Nash
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- Chief Information & Technology Officer
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- Matthew Smith
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- Chief Commercial Officer
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Awards Highlights
We are proud to have been recognised with hundreds of the industry's most valuable awards. See our acclaimed work.
Our Story
Uniplan made its start in 1960 in Cologne, Germany.
Founded by Hans Brühe, father of current group CEO and owner Christian Zimmermann, we made our start building TV show sets. Since then Uniplan has never stopped reinventing itself over the years.
A spark of inspiration marks the beginning of our Uniplan journey. Founder Hans Brühe is unhappy with his job. He impulsively sets up as a freelancer and wins WDR as an important client entirely off his own bat. Brühe gets to work building TV show sets and stadium camera towers, becoming an expert for special challenges.
Hans Brühe comes up with a seminal idea: exhibitions stands for hire. Uniplan becomes a leading provider of premium modular trade-fair stands. The company renames itself in 1970 to communicate its new corporate mission. Uniplan, the new company name, is a portmanteau of 'universal' and 'planned'.
Today – headquartered in Cologne with offices at eight key global locations – Uniplan embodies the multidisciplinary nature of the industry, taking in strategy, creative, design, engineering, production and execution in its wide-ranging concept-to-completion approach.
