Archive for year: 2025
June 3, 2025 | Lüneburg – IHK Lecture: How to Manage Complexity in Pricing?
/in Dates/by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian RiekhofIn the IHK series “Impulses for SMEs”, the spotlight is on Strategic Pricing this time. The IHK Lüneburg-Wolfsburg is pleased to welcome pricing expert Professor Hans-Christian-Riekhof for this occasion. He will discuss a topic that many businesses are undoubtedly familiar with: the complexity of pricing. “Should you simplify your pricing to finally manage complexity?” is the question he poses and for which he has in-depth, practical answers.
How to formulate and implement a long-term pricing strategy will be explained to interested individuals on June 3rd from 9:00 to 10:00 am at a free online event hosted by the Lüneburg-Wolfsburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHKLW). Professor Hans-Christian Riekhof will examine the elements of a well-planned pricing policy, the processes of pricing, and effective price control.
For over 20 years, the author and editor of various books on strategy, marketing, and retail business has been deeply engaged with questions of strategic and operational pricing and regularly initiates empirical pricing studies. In the IHKLW event, the expert will raise awareness for this topic – and provide actionable insights.
“In many companies, the issue of costs plays a very significant role. This is not the case for price and pricing in the same way: the company management pays significantly less attention to pricing than, for example, to costs,” says IHKLW consultant Thomas Rekowski: “This is very surprising, as the price is the significantly more effective profit lever in almost all companies. Therefore, a close look at pricing is worthwhile.”
Date:
June 3, 2025
For more information, visit: https://www.ihklw.de/impulse-pricing
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Pricing-Newsletter No. 95 (2025): Pricing at Meiller Elevator Doors
/in Pricing Newsletter, Pricing Newsletter/by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian RiekhofBesonders im Anlagen- und Maschinenbau kann durch individuelle Kundenanforderungen eine hohe Komplexität des Produktprogramms entstehen - mit anspruchsvollen Herausforderungen für das Pricing. Wie man bei MEILLER Aufzugstüren damit umgeht, erfahren Sie in diesem Interview mit Sebastian Thoene.
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27.11.2025 | Göttingen – “Xmas-Lectures” with presentations by PFH alumni
/in /by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian RiekhofSave the date: The Xmas-Lectures will also take place in 2025. A format in which former students of the PFH Private University of Göttingen provide insightful insights into very different industries in which they now work with short presentations and current topics. The planning for the line-up of the speakers is already underway in the background.
The this year’s Xmas Lectures are scheduled for November 27, 2025. Starting at 4:00 p.m., they will start in Göttingen in the proven format, which traditionally also includes a joint visit to the Göttingen Christmas market, where the evening ends in a relaxed atmosphere from around 7:00 p.m.
As soon as further details are known, they will be announced here on the homepage, says initiator Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Riekhof, who is looking forward to active participation and points out to mark this date in the calendar now.
Pricing-Newsletter No. 94 (2025): Customer Groups as a Building Block of Pricing Strategy
/in Pricing Newsletter/by Jürgen KettlerDifferent customer types have a very different willingness to pay a certain price. This pricing newsletter sheds light on why it can be a success factor for companies to integrate customer group models into their pricing strategy.
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Consultant Hermann Simon: Reality will catch up with Trump
/in Quotes/by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian RiekhofConsultant Hermann Simon: Germany needs irreplaceable services
/in Quotes/by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian RiekhofConsulting Legend Hermann Simon: Germany should say goodbye to old industries
/in Quotes/by Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian RiekhofPricing-Newsletter No. 93 (2025): How does Strategic Pricing work in SMEs? An Interview with Gordon Martin from STOLMA
/in Pricing Newsletter, Pricing Newsletter/by Jürgen KettlerFür diesen Newsletter habe ich ein Interview mit Gordon Martin geführt, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter von STOLMA. Das Unternehmen ist ein bedeutender Fachhändler für Fenster, Türen und Beschattungen mit über 2.000 Kunden aus Handwerk und Fachhandel. Gordon Martin bietet interessante Einblicke in eine erfolgreiche Preisstrategie.
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Sebastian Matthes: How Germany misses out on 96 billion annually due to digitalization inertia
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Pricing Seminar with Prof. Riekhof
As a participant of the pricing seminar, you will:
- approach strategic pricing with a changed mindset and better assess the contribution of professional pricing to results.
- have a clear methodological framework with the RSEC model to better handle the complexity of pricing.
- develop concrete ideas for quick wins in pricing and assess their feasibility.
- create a reliable estimate of the performance improvement that can be achieved through a pricing project.