Student Marketing Teams Compete to Answer Creative Challenges in The Pitch 2024

Applications to CIM’s 2023/24 global competition – The Pitch – are now open to UK and international marketing students until Friday 01 December. Following a successful trial of last year’s postgraduate competition, The Challenge, this year’s competition will now be open to both postgraduate and undergraduate students. Eligible undergraduate and postgraduate students can enter from universities across the world as long as they are studying for or have completed a marketing degree, or a business degree containing a marketing module. Now in its thirteenth year, the competition challenges aspiring marketers…

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University of Strathclyde team wins national ‘The Pitch’ student marketing competition and named ‘Marketers of the Future’

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has announced the student team from The University of Strathclyde as winners of its international student marketing competition, The Pitch. This year’s competition was sponsored by the UK’s leading health and beauty retailer, Boots, with student teams challenged to raise awareness of its partnership with The Prince’s Trust in a creative way that brings to life the expertise and ‘behind the scenes’ support for young people. Third year students, Kelly Wong, Eve Blaikie and Marta Nowak from team ‘Powerpuff Pitchers’, studying International Business with…

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Next Generation Of Marketers: Shortlist Announced For Nationwide Student Marketing Competition

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has announced its shortlist of ten teams going through to the final round of their student competition, The Pitch.  Now in its eleventh year, The Pitch is an international competition designed to recognise and reward the marketing talent of the future. It sees students from leading UK and international universities compete to respond to a real-life marketing challenge, in a bid to win the title of ‘Marketers of the Future’.  This year the competition is sponsored by the UK’s leading health and beauty retailer,…

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Leeds Beckett University team wins ‘The Pitch’ national marketing competition to be named ‘Marketers of the Future’

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has announced a student team from Leeds Beckett University as winners of its national student marketing competition, The Pitch. This year, the competition was sponsored by Samsung UK with student teams challenged to find creative ways to market its new foldable mobile phone category to Gen Z. Jessica Rolph, Hannah Napier and Georgina Tordoff from team ‘Brains of Beckett’, beat teams from across the UK to be crowned ‘Marketers of the Future’. Due to Covid-19, the live final of the competition was held virtually…

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University of Strathclyde team wins ‘The Pitch’ national marketing competition to be named ‘Marketers of the Future’

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has announced a student team from the University of Strathclyde as winners of its student competition, The Pitch. This is the third consecutive year that students from the University have triumphed at the competition. Thomas Cooper and Adam Dickson formed their team Cooper & Dickson, to beat 28 teams from across the UK to be crowned ‘Marketers of the Future’. Due to Covid-19, the team were told of their award win by video call. Thomas Cooper and Adam Dickson who study BA Hons in…

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