“Trust your gut!” With this sentence, Andre Kriwet, CEO and co-founder of True Motion, the running shoe start-up founded in Münster in 2018, succinctly captured one of the central messages of his guest lecture at the Marketing Center Münster. At the same time, it became very clear to the participants that, in the case of True Motion, this “gut feeling” rests on a strong foundation: extensive scientific expertise and decades of industry experience.

Prof. Dr. Manfred Krafft has been appointed as a Data Editor at the Journal of Marketing (JM) — one of the most influential and widely read academic journals in the marketing discipline, published by the American Marketing Association (AMA).

From June 2nd until June 5th 2026, the EMAC Spring Conference was held at the University of Bath, bringing together marketing scholars from across Europe and beyond. Once again, the MCM was well represented – with contributions spanning topics such as pop-up stores, brand rivalry, customer relationship management, sales strategy, pricing, virtual and augmented reality in marketing, as well as the use of text and language in consumer research.