Listerine – From Low Involvement to High Awareness

From November 23 to 24, 2017, members of the Circle of Excellence in Marketing (CEM) attended a workshop at Bayer Business Consulting (BC) in Leverkusen. Flora Spannagel, who is a project manager at Bayer BC, has organized the workshop on behalf of the marketing & sales practice.

The Direct Selling Educational Foundation (DSEF) has set up a new program “Ask the Experts” in which experts are interviewed on topics that relate to direct selling as distribution channel. The purpose of DSEF’s Ask the Experts videos is to demystify as well as mainstream the channel to both the public and key audiences (academics and students). In addition, member companies of the Direct Selling Association may also find these videos useful in countering critics. Professor Krafft who has been recently appointed as DSEF Fellow participated in this new initiative and talks about e.g.

“The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power” – Warren Buffet

On November 15^th, Prof. Hennig-Thurau and his Media Marketing class gave a warm welcome to two pricing experts from Simon Kucher & Partners: Media practice partner Lisa Jäger and consultant Julia Käßmann, who provided an interesting perspective on the challenges that media marketers face and how to solve them.

Am dritten Freitag im November geht das Münsteraner Marketing-Symposium in die nächste Runde. Was erwartet Sie? Spannende Anwendungsbeispiele und Erkenntnisse, die Diskussion konkreter Themen mit Experten in kleiner Runde auf den Marktplätzen und der Austausch mit Gleichgesinnten sowie ehemaligen Kommilitonen beim abendlichen Get Together.

The MCM would like to inform all students interested in writing their thesis at the MCM:

The next informative meeting on possible thesis topics will take place on October 19 at 6 p.m. in room ULB1. There you will have the opportunity to discuss your questions, thoughts, and own topic suggestions with faculty members. All marketing chairs will be present.