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Faculty of: ECONOMICS AND LAW; AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Food marketing and sales management

Piacenza

Domestic applicants
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Duration
2 Years
Language
Italian
Degree Classes
LM-77 R (Management)

Develop appropriate entrepreneurial and managerial skills

The graduate programme in Food Marketing and Sales Management aims to meet this need by developing adequate entrepreneurial and managerial skills related to:

  • the analysis of purchasing and consumption patterns in order to fully understand the processes of formation of situations of loyalty to brands and loyalty to points of sale;
  • strategies for planning, managing and protecting brand policies;
  • the evaluation of the configuration of the processes for the selection of the sales channels of the company's products;
  • the design of product/channel/customer business plans with the relative definition of the marketing investment mix ;
  • building and managing marketing and sales organisations ;
  • measuring the effectiveness of the various communication media and promotional and advertising policies;
  • how the prices of products/brands/points of sale are formed;
  • the functioning of agricultural and food markets;
  • European economic policies in the field of food markets;
  • the principles of food education and quality economics;
  • the implementation of merchandising, shopper marketing and experiential marketing policies;
  • the management of negotiation and contractual relations  in supply relationships between producers and distributors;
  • the processes of formalization and management of commercial relations in international markets.

To train the above-mentioned skills, the graduate programme in Food Marketing and Sales Management will follow a didactic path based on a strong integration between managerial theory and practice.