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The Society

About SFMR

Society for Food Marketing & Retailing

The Society for Food Marketing and Retailing (SFMR) is an international academic society dedicated to advancing rigorous, relevant, and impactful research across the food and beverage sector.

SFMR brings together scholars, students, industry professionals, and other stakeholders to exchange ideas, develop research collaborations, and generate insights on evolving issues in marketing, retailing, consumer behavior, branding, technology, sustainability, and policy.

Our mission is to build a global scholarly and industry community that advances and disseminates high-quality research, provides meaningful platforms for presentation and publication, and strengthens collaboration between academia and practice.

Our Mission

Our Mission

SFMR is committed to

  • Building a global scholarly and industry community that connects researchers, students, and professionals across regions and disciplines
  • Advancing and disseminating rigorous research addressing important and emerging issues in food marketing and retailing
  • Providing platforms for presenting, evaluating, and publishing high-quality research
  • Strengthening collaboration between academia and industry through dialogue, partnerships, and knowledge exchange
  • Supporting the next generation of scholars through mentoring, professional development, and opportunities for research collaboration

A Global Community

A Global Community for Food Marketing & Retailing Research

SFMR embraces a broad and interdisciplinary view of food marketing and retailing. Research may use the food and beverage sector as a research context, marketplace, industry setting, or source of broader managerial, societal, and policy insights, drawing on perspectives from marketing, consumer behavior, advertising, strategy, retailing, supply chain, technology, hospitality, agribusiness, and related disciplines.

Through its annual global conference, publication partnerships, industry collaborations, and professional development initiatives, SFMR aims to foster an inclusive international community and become a leading platform for scholarship shaping the future of food marketing and retailing.

Governance

Executive leadership

Executive Director

Kacy Kim

Bryant University

Associate Director

Sukki Yoon

Bryant University

Secretary & Treasurer

Eun Kang

Bryant University

Governance

Steering committee

Kacy KimBryant University
Sukki YoonBryant University
Eun KangBryant University
Junghoon MoonSeoul National University
Riccardo RialtiUniversity of Siena
Jooyoung KimUniversity of Georgia
Lamberto ZolloUniversity of Milan
Roberto ChiericiUniversity of Milan-Bicocca
Virginia VannucciUniversity of Pisa
Francesca NegriCatholic University of the Sacred Heart
Changju KimRitsumeikan University

Governance

Advisory board

Dhruv GrewalBabson College
Anne RoggeveenBabson College
Charles R. TaylorVillanova University
Eric HaleyUniversity of Tennessee
Tobias LangnerUniversity of Wuppertal
Todd AlessandriBryant University

History

SFMR History

2026

Inaugural SFMR Conference

February 26–28, 2026 · Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA

SFMR held its inaugural conference in 2026. The original program can be viewed in the conference archive.

2026 conference archive

Conference archives and photographs

The 2026 conference program is available in the archive. Photographs can be added once the organizers supply approved event images.

Conference gallery