In addition to the activities in sports consulting that have been started in summer 2021, the development of several investments, our Managing Director has been working as "Director Corporate Involvements" for the KENSTON GROUP® for several months.

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In “KaffeehausTALK” with Simon-Peter Charamza and Lorenz Kirchschlager, our Managing Director Markus Kraetschmer looks back on his time at FK Austria Wien, how it influenced him to set up his own business with the founding of "MK Consulting GmbH" and which current projects and various mandates he is currently working on.

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From 24/02 to 01/03/2024, Managing Director Markus Kraetschmer visited the capital New Delhi and the business metropolis of Mumbai together with KENSTON founder & CEO Sebastian Uckermann.

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At the end of the second full financial year, Managing Director Markus Kraetschmer looks back on the highlights of a very eventful year and also provides an initial outlook for the new year 2024

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Now that all the formal steps have been finalized, the company "Die Karrierebegleiter - DKB ltd" can also get off the ground. This is the latest investment by MK Consulting GmbH. As clearly communicated by owner and managing director Markus Kraetschmer from the beginning, the build-up of equity investments in various business areas is being consistently pursued as an important field for the company.

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When MK Consulting GmbH was founded in the summer of 2021, it was clear to owner and managing director Markus Kraetschmer that the development of equity investments in various business areas would be an important pillar for the company.

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When founding MK Consulting GmbH in the summer of 2021, Managing Director Markus Kraetschmer decided to pass on his know-how and experience from a quarter of a century in the sports business with lecturing activities and as a participant in panel discussions.

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At the end of the first full business year of MK Consulting GmbH, our managing partner Markus Kraetschmer talks to Sportsbusiness.at editor-in-chief Michael FIALA about the main business areas of the company, the development of interesting projects in American Football, Volleyball, Basketball and Soccer, the expansion of his teaching activities at the International Football Institute (IFI, Munich-Ismaning and Vienna) and other universities, and why Consulting Activities in the various sports will continue to gain importance in the coming years.

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For the 10th time, the "Who's Who" of the industry met at the dbb forum on November 17th, 2022 for the annual knowledge transfer in Berlin. Top speakers and experts presented their learnings, best cases and discussed the most important trends in sports business and entertainment on three stages.

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What determines the sporting success of a soccer club? "Its financial resources", is usually the answer to that. Transfer fees and commissions for transfers in professional football have recently reached record levels and have once again speeded up the race for top results and trophies.

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"When VIKINGS President Karl Wurm called me in August 2021 and asked me for my assessment of the new European League of Football (ELF), I would never have thought such a development possible - I guess only sport writes such stories!" Read here a summary of an incredible journey of the managing director of MK Consulting ltd. Markus Kraetschmer.

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After one year in his new position, our managing partner talks about the development of the new company, interesting projects in American Football, Volleyball, Basketball and Soccer, his passion for teaching at the International Football Institute and why the consulting sector will continue to grow in various sectors of sport.

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In the course of an extensive and exclusive interview with Krone.at, MK Consulting´s Managing Director Markus Kraetschmer comments in detail on the development of the Vienna Vikings in the European League of Football (ELF) so far

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The International Football Institute (IFI) and Markus Kraetschmer's MK Consulting GmbH are entering into a joint partnership and will be working together exclusively in the fields of management consulting and consulting for clubs, associations and partner companies in football with immediate effect.

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When MK Consulting GmbH was founded, one of the business areas was defined as the creation and implementation of specialist lectures and specialist literature or publications, the coaching of managers and the activity as a lecturer in courses.

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Our new team from Vienna outclassed the Istanbul Rams last Saturday on Turkish soil at the Maltepe Hasan Polat Stadyumu with 49-0 (season record win!) and are thus still first in the Central Conference.

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Today the World Business Angels Forum (WBAF) Austria Expertentalk took place in Vienna and online for investors, entrepreneurs, start-ups and interested parties.

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The Austrian Volleyball Federation (ÖVV) and the Austrian Volleyball League (ÖVL), newly founded in January 2022, are jointly opening a new chapter in domestic indoor volleyball. With independence and innovation, the men's volleyball league wants to take off anew.

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The Vienna Vikings franchise model, which was launched in September 2021, is about to embark on a premiere season of a very special kind: in the fast-growing sport of American football, the kick-off for the European League of Football 2022, the "Champions League" in American football in Europe, is coming up on June 4th. As one of twelve teams from five nations, the Vienna Vikings, Vienna's No. 1 in football, will be at the start of Europe's top league of American football.

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For the students of the class "Professional Sports Law" of the William S. Boyd School of Law of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA), CEO Markus Kraetschmer was able to give an interesting guest lecture together with Georg Festetics, the founder of Munegu Sport.

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Really every company has to deal with this topic today, there is no getting around it, and therefore it is only clear and logical that these 3 letters have also gained a foothold in the sports industry for some years now! In this article we want to give you a brief overview of essential terms related to CSR, point out some important ground rules and why this area will become so important and crucial for clubs in the future!

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The football season is entering the decisive phase, after the pandemic-related restrictions the stadiums are filling up again, the clubs have chances for important revenues, however, there are also high costs that cannot be neglected! Markus Kraetschmer explains in a professional commentary the different types of costs that have to be taken into account around a football match and shows the important factors that ultimately have a decisive influence on the total costs of a match!

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On the occasion of the sporting highlights of 2022 such as the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the Super Bowl in Los Angeles, the Women's EURO in England as well as the Men's World Cup in Qatar, a top-class panel of experts discussed the current challenges, but also business and networking opportunities of these events at this Super Tuesday. In addition, there was an outlook on the next major events such as the 2026 World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico and also the new European League of Football, which will start its second season in May 2022 with the Vienna Vikings.

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January 28th 2022 has definitely changed the Austrian Volleyball Sport - eight clubs of the men's Bundesliga have founded their own association to organize their competition themselves in the future. MK Consulting GmbH was engaged as a consultant for this purpose. In an exclusive interview with the trade medium "Sportbusiness.at" our managing director Markus Kraetschmer explains important parameters for the upcoming negotiations.

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Eight men's clubs of the Volleyball Bundesliga (Hypo Tirol, SK Zadruga Aich/Dob, TJ Sokol V/Post SV Vienna, Union Volleyball Raiffeisen Waldviertel, UVC Weberzeile Ried, VBC TLC Weiz, VBK Wörtherseelöwen Klagenfurt, VCA Amstetten Lower Austria) have unanimously founded the association "Volleyball Bundesliga" (VBL) on January 28th 2022.

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With the winter semester 2021/22, Kraetschmer has accepted a teaching position at IFI (International Football Institute), which operates in cooperation with HAM (University of Applied Management, the largest private university in Bavaria, located in Munich/Ismaning and study locations in 11 German cities and Vienna).

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The VIENNA VIKINGS, 5 x Euro Bowl winners and 15 x Austrian Champions in American Football (only men's competitions) will participate in the new European League of Football (ELF) starting in the upcoming 2022 season - our company is looking forward to another very interesting consulting mandate in team sports, this time in AMERICAN FOOTBALL for the VIENNA VIKINGS!

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The initiative, started by former Austria Salzburg CEO Anton Pichler, has grown continuously and strongly in recent years and hosts an annual congress in D, A and CH, completed by the SUMMIT CHATTERS in Zürs/Arlberg.

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After more than 26 years in different organizations owner and managing director Markus Kraetschmer (49) made the decision to begin a new chapter in his professional career and to act for the first time independently. The business branch covers management consultancy with a focus on sportconsulting.

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