Salovaara Watson

Salovaara & Kukkonen Group is an American global marketing, branding and corporate communications company, headquartered in New York City.

History
Salovaara & Kukkonen Group was founded in 1975 by Finnish-American graphic designers Henri Salovaara (born 1954) and Jari Kukkonen (1957-2002).

In 1978, after their work on branding of Junvic Pictures, they were convinced to open an office in El Kadsre City, where they worked on the branding of El TV Kadsre Television Network, which became iconic, and the core branding (black and blue text in Impact-like font) was used until 2017.

In 1990, the company merged with Clark, Smith, Green, Davis + Miller to form Salovaara, Clark, Smith, Kukkonen, Green, Davis + Miller. The CSGD+M offices became S&K offices in 2002, thus phasing out the name and going back to the former.

Jari Kukkonen announced to leave the company in 1991, due to him being diagnosed with cancer. Henri Salovaara supported his battle with cancer until his death in 2002, and is heavily involved in philantrophy with cancer research.

S&K/Banne
Founded as George Banne Company (trading as Banne) in 1987 by George Banne, S&K/Banne started out as a branding studio. In 2014, GBC Holdings bought out 33% of the company. Qualis, the successor, acquired the rest of the stakes in 2018. All the offices that were near or in the same cities as S&K's offices were merged, while the rest were spun off into S&K/Banne.

In 1993, George Banne and Henri Salovaara formed a close partnership.