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?

This summer semester, the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM) lead by Professor Manfred Krafft collaborated with the Practical Computer Science Group lead by Professor Kuchen and offered a project seminar in cooperation with Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG.

From June 24^th to June 25^th, the Chair of Marketing and Dialogue Marketing represented by Prof. Kay Peters from the University of Hamburg, invited to this year’s Siegfried Vögele Institute (SVI) doctoral colloquium. The colloquium is a yearly get-together of selected marketing chairs aiming to offer doctoral students the opportunity to present and discuss their research. Due to COVID-19 it had been two years since the colloquium was held in presence.

After two years of remote lectures, the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM) finally able to welcome two exciting guest lecturers as part of the bachelor course “Marketing Operations” in class again.

Digital technologies are rapidly changing the way businesses operate. There is an increasing demand for partially or fully digital products and services; companies interact with customers and supply chain partners through digital channels; internal processes and operations such as production or manufacturing or office management also rely on digital technologies.