Marketing

For the first time ever, UA hosted a Sales Opportunity and Career Fair on October 3, 2007. Some 30 companies, 60 corporate executives, and nearly 160 students participated. Each corporation received a resume book containing nearly 200 student resumes from sales-interested students. Attending companies included Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Red Diamond, Philip Morris, Wolseley, and Federated. The Opportunities Fair is an event designed to give corporations and students the chance to form fruitful alliances through morning topical breakout sessions and an afternoon career fair. The event culminated with a private tour of Jack Warner’s museum and a dinner with a live jazz band. This year’s event headed up by Dr. Lenita Davis was a great success thanks to the efforts of many people and organizations, and plans are already underway for next year.

Pi Sigma Epsilon PSE, the student professional selling organization, is a national group designed to facilitate and create opportunities for students in the professional selling arena, including regional and national sales competitions. The UA chapter of PSE, which is advised by Dr. Lenita Davis, and which formed just this fall, had the highest ever inaugural group, with 78 paid members. The largest previous record was 57 and the largest chapter nationwide is 150. Congratulations PSE!

Dr. Glenn Richey was awarded the 2007 Manderson Graduate School MBA Faculty Excellence Award for teaching, and the 2007 Order of Omega “Rusty Quarles” Outstanding Fraternity Advisor Award for service to the university. Dr. Richey is the Young J. Boozer Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow and teaches and researches extensively in the areas of marketing strategy and supply chain.

Dr. Kristy Reynolds received the 2007 Outstanding Reviewer Award for Journal of Retailing. Dr. Reyolds is the Bruno Associate Professor of Marketing and publishes extensively in the area of retailing and shopping motives.