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The energy crisis, price explosions and the threat of inflation are currently placing a particularly heavy burden on consumers' wallets. Now that the Euro has to be turned over twice, consumers are increasingly turning to private labels of well-known supermarket chains, which allows cost savings of 20 to 30%. But do private labels also help to save energy for the general public, since they are produced differently from other branded products?
Welche Chancen eine hohe Inflation für das Marketing bietet
Prof. Dr. Sonja Gensler im Gespräch mit HORIZONT
Professor Krafft, head of the Chair of Marketing Management, spoke with Sebastian Fischer as part of the Science|Talk organized by PIA DYMATRIX and shared current research findings on contemporary customer loyalty management. PIA DYMATRIX is one of the leading German software, solution and service providers for data-driven marketing automation in the DACH region.
Due to the nationwide vaccination week that started on Monday, September 13, 2021, Prof. Dr. Raoul Kübler talked with Radio Kiepenkerl about possible further creative vaccination offers to increase the vaccination rate in Germany. In this context, the marketing expert suggests “Vaccination Cafés” or a “Night of Vaccination” to encourage population groups that have not yet been reached by previous vaccination campaigns towards vaccination. Furthermore the MCM scholar suggests classic "Word of Mouth" campaigns in which already vaccinated people inform others about their experience.
On June 8, the award ceremony of the “Preis der Deutschen Marktforschung” took place in a digital format. This year's winner was the MCM student Anne Zeh who wrote her master’s thesis at the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM).
On the occasion of the cult brand's birthday, Professor Krafft, marketing expert and head of the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM), gave an interview to "taff" (ProSieben). The interview was broadcasted on German television on May 10, 2021. In this TV special, Manfred Krafft explains what the NIVEA brand means and discusses its success factors.
In his recent publication: Metrics gone wrong: What managers can learn from the 2016 presidential elections, MCM scholar Raoul Kübler discusses together with his colleague Professor Koen Pauwels from Northeastern University, Boston USA how relying on biased market intelligence and targeting the wrong KPIs had fatal consequences for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Around 80 percent of people in Germany regularly or occasionally buy organic products. More and more of them are also available from discounters. According to a recent study conducted by the Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, discounters are consumers’ second most important point of contact for purchasing organic products. Against this background, Radio RST is pursuing the goal of examining this trend in greater detail as part of the broadcast series "Bio vom Discounter".
In agricultural regions, product queens are crowned who give a face to a product or industry of their region. In an interview with "Die Glocke", Professor Krafft explains which marketing concepts are used to increase the value of the products represented.