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Sylvain Charlebois - Associate Dean CME

Most would agree  that the "mad cow" event of May 20, 2003, following the discovery of our country's first native Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy case, wasn't really a food safety-centric crisis, at least in Canada; in retrospect, it was primarily a trade crisis. 

Justin McManus a Master's student in Marketing and Consumer Studies is using his research to study the effects of gambling advertisements on participant behaviour.  Full article atGuelph

Dr. Lefa Teng a Marketing and Consumer Studies faculty member is using his research to help strengthen economic ties with China and create jobs here in Ontario.  "Canada has a culture that emphasizes good quality, especially in food products. We follow the rules and we don't produce counterfeits.

"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.