The research paper “Challenges and Opportunities for Marketing Scholars in Times of the Fourth Industrial Revolution” by Professor Manfred Krafft (IfM), Professor Laszlo Sajtos (University of Auckland), and Professor Michael Haenlein (ESCP Business School) is now available at the Journal of Interactive Marketing (JIM).

Der Wettbewerbsdruck treibt viele stationäre Einzelhändler zu Investitionen: Um sich von Wettbewerbern abzugrenzen, gestalten die großen Lebensmitteleinzelhändler Aldi, Rewe, Edeka und Real ihre Filialen grundlegend um. Das Ziel der Einzelhändler liegt darin, den angestammten Kundenkreis zu binden und neue Kunden hinzuzugewinnen.

For many students, the current situation is extremely stressful. The loss of many part-time jobs due to the outbreak of Covid-19 poses great financial challenges for students.

Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence and Social Media are currently revolutionizing the retail industry. At the EuroShop trade fair in Düsseldorf on February 18, leading representatives from research and business got together to discuss how recent developments in technology and society reshape the retail industry.

They are not only good at what they do - they are actually extraordinary good. Once again, marketing students from Münster were accepted into the WiWi-Talents program due to their excellent performances during their studies. The two master students Malte Stegemann and Nils Bahr were nominated by Prof. Dr. Manfred Krafft, Director of the Chair of Marketing Management. The two are now part of a group of highly talented students of economics selected in this year’s program.

One of the areas most critically impacted by changing customer needs is retailing, both, online and offline. Therefore, “Retailing Beyond”, the 11th edition of the yearly congress of the Rabobank Anton Dreesmann foundation, focused on how to meet and strategically anticipate changes in the turbulent environment of local and global retailers in the Netherlands.