European Marketing Confederation (EMC)

Stichting Marketing or Marketing Foundation
Z1 Research Park, 120
1731 Zellik BELGIUM
Phone: +32 2467 59 59 | Fax: +32 2467 59 56
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Main officers in the association Mr. Didier Roelandt, Managing Director Mr. Marc Van Perre, President Mr. Daniel Viane, Past President Ctc at EMC and for international issues Mr. Didier Roelandt, Managing Director

 

>> Mission

• Marketing Foundation is the knowledge centre for professional marketeers in Belgium. Marketing Foundation challenges marketeers to broaden their horizons and empowers them through congresses, seminars and networking in collaboration with professional marketeers. Marketing Foundation also has its own Training Center, INSTIMA, which organizes courses in Marketing, Sales and Communication and holds the 'Q for client satisfaction-label'.

 

>> Facts & Figures
Structure: “Marketing Foundation” (1500 members), “INSTIMA” (500 participants/year) for accreditation in Marketing, Sales and Communication.
Staff: 8, plus marketeers involved on a voluntary basis (in different Experts Groups).

 

>> Overview of the main activities

• The Experts Groups of Marketing Foundation offer a broad variety of events (45 events/year) for professional marketeers in order to update their Marketing knowledge and expand their social and professional contacts 
• The International Marketing Congress counts 1200 participants a year. During this congress the Marketeer of The Year is selected (Dutch-speaking and French-speaking). 
• Every year the Marketing Foundation organizes the EFFIE Award in collaboration with UAB, CV news and ACC.  
• Marketing Foundation also gives the opportunity to students to organize the biggest Marketing Congress in Europe: the annual Marketing Congress for Students with 2600 participants. 

 

>> Membership types and fees
Individual 
Young Marketeers  
Corporate

 

>> List of membership benefits

• For free: the EFFIE Book, access to the EHSAL library, the possibility to become an active member of one of the Experts Groups, a year’s subscription to BIZZ-magazine, the Marketing Foundation Member Newsletter.
• Special advantages: reduced entrance fees to all the organized activities and a substantial reduction to all the courses organized by INSTIMA.
• Reductions on magazines’ subscriptions: a discount of 25 % on an annual subscription on ‘Trends’, ‘Trends/Tendances’ and ‘Tijdschrift voor Marketing’

 

>> Publications