"Consumers tend to infer that worn bills are used and contaminated, whereas crisp bills give them a sense of pride in owning bills that can be spent around others", according to research conducted by Fabrizio Di Muro and MCS faculty Theodore J. Noseworthy. Full article available from Metro News
March 27th - Kennedy Crawford (B.Comm Marketing Management major) and Alyssa de Hoop (Studio Arts Major and B.Comm Marketing Management minor) competed and won at the 2013 Canada's Next Top Ad Exec competition last night. The girls each walked away with a brand new 2013 Chevrolet Cruze.
Congrats to Dylan Palmer (MSc Marketing and Consumer Studies student) who was awarded $1000 as the second top campus account manager.
March 25th - Paulette Padanyi, MCS faculty highlighted in the Guelph Mercury for her study Report on Food Provision in Ontario Hospitals and Long-Term Care Services: The Challenges and Opportunities of Incorporating Local Food. "Setting out to find ways to incorporate local food into hospitals and long-term care facilities was a noble pursuit for University of Guelph researcher Paulette Padanyi and her team"...
March 19th 2013 - A team of two students from U of G have been selected among the finalists (top 10) from about 200 teams/individuals who participated in the annual competition Canada's Next Top Ad Exec. This competition is fast turning into a major competition in business schools in Canada - students from different schools across Canada compete for some really great prizes (this year the top prize is a Chevy Cruze for each of the members of the winning team and there are over $30,000 in prizes plus valuable internships for the top groups).
March 13th 2013 - Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the Marketing and Consumer Studies 14th Annual Awards Ceremony to honour our outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate students.
AWARD RECIPIENTS Undergraduate Students
Michelle Bergsma - MCS Outstanding Scholarship
Michelle Bergsma - MCS Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
Feb. 22nd 2013 - Andrew Oosterhuis, Brand Manager for Budweiser and BComm Alumni featured in The Globe and Mail. "This was a very interesting activation and I am extremely proud of our collective achievement." For full article from the Globe and Mail.
February 13th - The Estonian Studies Centre has a research bursary award competition now open. The deadline for submission is April 1st 2013. For more information see the attachement below, or contact Dr Brent McKenzie, Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies -
February 6th - The University of Guelph’s Real Estate and Housing (REH) program has taken another step in its commitment to stay relevant to the real estate industry of today and tomorrow by establishing an advisory board comprised of industry leaders.
“Creating the Real Estate Program Advisory Board (REPAB) is another distinctive element of the REH program and shows our commitment to assist students to build careers as leaders in the real estate industry,” says Jane Londerville, Associate Professor and Academic Advisor for the program.
- January 22nd 2013;
The Estonian Studies Centre is pleased to announce the following:
Professor Brent McKenzie of the University of Guelph, MCS dept. has been named as the first Academic Research Fellow at the Estonian Studies Centre
December 19th 2012 - Professor Sunghwan Yi
Prof offers tips to avoid excessive shopping.
Oops, you did it again. You bought a few things you didn’t really need at that blowout sale and spent more than you’d planned. No big deal, but for many people shopping beyond their means is a habit that turns into a chronic problem – one that may leave them unable to pay their rent, utility bills or worse.
The complete article at Guelph.