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  • Top Marketing Management students rewarded by Potatoes South Africa

    Posted on November 06, 2015

    The year has come to an end for the third-year BCom Marketing Management students who have worked on a practical integrated marketing project for Potatoes South Africa (PSA). A prize-giving function was held on 29 October 2015, where the top three groups were rewarded for their PSA projects. PSA...

  • Gautrain’s Amazing Transport Race experience

    Posted on November 02, 2015

    As honours students in Marketing Management at UP in 2015, Mieke Bruins and Stephan du Plessis have been working on an integrated marketing communication strategy for the Gautrain Management Agency throughout the year. They share their experience of the brand and the high standards it adheres to,...

  • Asata CEO speaks on the future of travel agents

    Posted on October 28, 2015

    Mr Otto de Vries, CEO of the Association of South African Travel Agents (Asata), recently presented a guest lecture to the BCom Honours students in Tourism Management. His lecture focused on the future of business and retail travel agents, and he assured students that there is indeed still a role...

  • Destination marketing expert visits UP

    Posted on October 20, 2015

    The Tourism Management Division hosted Prof Dimitris Koutoulas from the University of Patras in Greece during September 2015.

  • Conducting market research in challenging environments

    Posted on October 06, 2015

    The Department of Marketing Management hosted Mr Joe Boniaszczuk, Marketing Sciences Director at GfK South Africa, on 19 September 2015. He presented a lecture on conducting market research in challenging environments to the MPhil Marketing Research students.

  • Marketing guru inspires at conference and workshop

    Posted on September 09, 2015

    The 27th annual Southern African Institute for Management Scientists (SAIMS) Conference, themed ‘Management in Southern Africa: Change, Challenge and Opportunity’, was hosted on 30 August 2015 in conjunction with the School of Management Studies at the University of Cape Town.

  • Contemplating the impact of technology on being a scholar-author

    Posted on September 08, 2015

    During a visit to the Department of Marketing Management in July 2015, Professor Julie Ruth from the Rutgers University School of Business in the USA delivered a presentation to the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ staff on the impact of technology on being a scholar-author.

  • Exposure to customer experience management

    Posted on August 31, 2015

    The Department of Marketing Management hosted Professor Adré Schreuder, CEO of Consulta, founder and chair of the SA Customer Satisfaction Index (SASCI) and extraordinary professor in the Department during August 2015. He presented a customer experience management workshop to MPhil Marketing...

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