The Marketing Center Muenster announces their recognition by the Sales Education Foundation (SEF) as a “Top Universities for Professional Sales Education” program in their 2017 ANNUAL magazine. SEF recognizes the Marketing Center Muenster for preparing students for successful careers in professional selling and helping to elevate the sales profession. The SEF 2017 ANNUAL magazine, their 10^th edition, will be available on their website, www.salesfoundation.org, by the end of April.

The Institute of Marketing assigns two master theses for the third quarter of 2017 in cooperation with Münster Osnabrück International Airport (FMO). Interested and motivated master students have the exciting opportunity of empirically analyzing potential marketing strategies for an international airport in a competitive environment.

The article "Permission Marketing and Privacy Concerns – Why Do Customers (Not) Grant Permissions?" by Manfred Krafft, Christine M. Arden, and Peter C. Verhoef has been accepted for publication in Journal of Interactive Marketing.

In recognition of his significant and enduring contributions to the European Marketing Academy (EMAC) and his achievements of high levels of scholarship and as a leader in the field of marketing, Manfred Krafft has been appointed as EMAC fellow. Together with him, Ajay Kohli (Atlanta/USA, previous editor of Journal of Marketing) and Peter Verhoef (Groningen, VP Membership of EMAC) have been appointed as new fellows of EMAC. EMAC represents more than 1,000 European scholars in Marketing. The board of fellows consists of 17 recognized scholars, who stay fellows until their retirement.

Unter dem Titel „Nach den Sternen greifen“ fand am 26. Januar die ProTalent-Stipendienfeier in der Aula des Schosses statt. In seiner Begrüßungsrede gratulierte Professor Dr. Johannes Wessels als Rektor der WWU den 206 ProTalent-Stipendiaten, denen zum Wintersemester 2016/17 eine finanzielle Förderung durch das Stipendium gewährt werden konnte.

Prof. Krafft and Dr. Tillmanns have been awarded the 2017 William Davidson Honorable Mention Award. They were runner-ups for the William R. Davidson Award with their article "The Evolution of Marketing Channel Research Domains and Methodologies: An Integrative Review and Future Directions". The award recognizes the best articles published in Journal of Retailing [VHB-Jourqual: A] in 2015.