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“La Chine – nouvelle puissance économique mondiale”,

un beau, nouveau livre de l’honorable Léon F. Wegnez

L’infatigable chercheur de l’humanité toujours en marche, de la transformation économique et sociale,Léon F Wegnez, avec sa bien connue véritable vocation pour la diffusion des connaissances,nous invite à découvrir une “réussite planétaire”:

“La Chine ne peut laisser indifférent. Tout au long de son histoire, elle a intrigué et fasciné tant ses partenaires que ses adversaires…”

Dans l’éditorial de la prestigieuse revue  “Distribution d’aujourd’hui” (Bruxelles), 55 année, Avril-Mai-Juin 2014, intitulé “Consumérisme”, l’honorable Léon F. Wegnez met en garde les lecteurs que le consumérisme se situe en realité sur trois plans (“privé”: dans le chef d’organisations de consommateurs à vocation de représentation et de défense des intérêts des consommateurs auprès les pouvoirs publiques, des secteurs professionnels et des instances juridiques; “public”: dans le chef de diverses institutions publiques à vocation d’information et de protection des consommateurs; “juridique”: concretisé par l’emergence d’un veritable droit de la consummation répondant aux besoins nouveau de l’information, de la protection et de la participation effective des consommateurs à la vie de la communauté à laquelle ils appartiennent) et dans ce contexte il importe de préciser que les entreprises du secteur de la distribution vont en permanence à la rencontre des consommateurs, non seulement au niveau de la nature, de la qualité et du prix des produits et des services qu’elles leurs proposent, mais aussi par l’adaptation constant de leurs structures et de leurs méthods, de leurs magasins et de leurs prestations, finalement cette recherche fondamentale d’une meilleure satisfaction des consommateurs en rendrant légitime la function consumériste des entreprises de distribution.

Notre attention a été attire par le Sommaire riche et de qualité et permettez-nous de faire référence aux deux sujets qui nous réveillent des beaux souvenirs: “Le SIAL à 50 ans” (en nous souvenant de la délégation – composée de Virgil Popa et Theodor Purcarea – participante au SIAL 1992, au cours de laquelle ils ont eu un entretien avec le Président du CIES -The Food Business Forum; à voir l’article publié par Theodor Purcarea: “SIAL, un outil majeurde communication, de promotion et d’affaires”, Jurnalul afacerilor, 4/1993, I. N. Virgil Madgearu, Ministère du Commerce, Roumanie); la présentation du livre “Hypermarché: 50 ans déjà”, par Claude Sordet. Membre de l’Académie Française des Sciences Commerciales, Claude Sordet (l’auteur du livre) a participé au premier Congrès International de l’AIDA organisé en Roumanie en Mai 1998. Il est aussi important de nous rappeler quelques-unes des personnalités participantes au Congrès AIDA, Bucarest, Mai 1998: Riccardo Garosci (Vice-président de la Commission économique et monétaire du Parlement Européen et Rapporteur Européen pour le Livre vert du Commerce Européen), Georges Chétochine (Professeur de marketing, à l’Université Paris IX-Dauphine, reconnu pour ses analyses de la communication non verbale et comme grande figure de la télévision), Jean-Jacques Vandenheede (Vice-président AC Nielsen), Louis Guelette (Vice-président IBM), Bernd Hallier (Directeur EuroHandelsInstitut), Pierre Arnold (Docteur Honoris Causa de l’Université de Lausanne et Legion d’honneur 1991, ancient PDG de Migros, membre de la direction du groupe horloger SMH, siège au conseil d’administration de Swissair ; il a présidé la société qui a transformait le Palais de Congrès de Zurich), Paul Schulz (Senior Vice President, Food Distributors International, USA), Claude Magnan (General Manager, Elodis, France), Henry R. Hidell III (President of Hidell-Eyster International, USA, a global consultancy specializing in water resource management and bottled water products; a member of the executive committee of the International Bottled Water Association), Russel Damtoft (Federal Trade Commission, USA), Mario Bertolini (Honorary President of AIDA  Brussels, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Parma etc.), William S. Webb (Executive Director, The Institute of Retail and Distribution Management, London, Great-Britain) et beaucop d’autres (“La coopération du 18 mai 1998 avec les Comissions du Parlement Roumain  pour l’Intégration Européenne et pour la Politique Economique a été une expérience mémorable concernant la promotion de la marque nationale”, “Holistic Marketing Management” Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2013, p. 36).

“For me, the Romanian-American University is everything: my home, my profession and my spare time. This establishment of education and science is a mirror of me and of my work for tens of years, my eternal soul, and my idea for the renewal of the concept of work”.
Professor ION SMEDESCU, PhD
Founding Rector of the Romanian-American University
(Founded in 1991, accredited by law in 2002, receiving the qualification “High confidence rating” from ARACIS in 2010), and
President of the Romanian-American Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture

On the 23^rd Anniversary of theRomanian-American University:

Experiencing and Observing the Socially Constructed Reality

Professor Ion Smedescu, the Founding Rector of the Romanian-American University, and Honorary Member of the Romanian Distribution Committee, often spoke passionately about the world of human creativity and shared subjective experience, by constantly pledging for both, on one hand, a better understanding of customers’ and prospects’ needs and expectations from our University, and on the other hand, having the right message and delivering it in the right time and right place, while responsibly and accountably teaching students to adequately apply what they have learned.  Professor Ion Smedescu often quoted James Madison, always insisting on the need to accelerate the advancement and diffusion of knowledge (“the only guardian of the liberty” according to James Madison), and also recommending the same “best medicine in the world”, namely: “a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages”.

As we all know, at the heart of our basic human experience there is our brain’s ability to preserve or alter our memories, which are transformed each time we revisit them. Allow us to also consider the 23^rd Anniversary of the Romanian-American University as an opportunity to strengthen the memory, by recalling some older memories, making them feel vivid and putting them in relation with the present challenging time.

A unanimous opinion: A Great Career, a Great Man, Professor Dumitru PATRICHE

Professor Dumitru PATRICHE was always that special person inspiring us to give our best in discovering knowledge and innovation, in order to become what we potentially are on the continuous way of shaping our personality. And all this as a continual extension of his powerful personality while guiding us in creating our way by our walking.

Professor Iacob CATOIU, a distinguished representative of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, and  Honorary Member of the Romanian Distribution Committee, published in February 2008, in the well-known “Amfiteatru Economic” Journal, a profound testimony: “A MODEL FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS: PROFESSOR DUMITRU PATRICHE” (pp. 260-263, “Amfiteatru Economic”, No. 23/2008 (http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/RevistaDetalii_RO.aspx?Cod=8).

More recently, at the end of 2011, a testimony coming from the last former PhD student of Professor Dumitru PATRICHE was published in the Romanian Distribution Committee Magazine. Just take a look (with one click here: http://crd-aida.ro/RePEc/rdc/v2i4/6.pdf ), thanks to RePEc – central index of economics research!

On January 16, 2014, His Beatitude DANIEL, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Bucharest, and Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobrudgea, has consecrated the painting of the Romanian-American University’s Chapel and inaugurated the “Lux Mundi” reading room. On this occasion, Parish Priest Physician Drd. Vlad Toader was made iconom stavrofor.

At the end of the consecration, His Beatitude Daniel spoke wise words that also grabbed the participants’ attention.

Among the numerous participants we noted the presence of Professor Dumitru Miron, President of the Romanian-American Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture, Professor Ovidiu Folcuț, Rector of the Romanian-American University (RAU), Vice Rector Doinita Ciocirlan, Director Moni Smedescu and other representatives of the academic community.

His Beatitude Daniel emphasized in the speech delivered the importance of the role of the Chapel at the Romanian-American University in bringing together the academic community, in enriching themselves in the relationship of love with God and the humankind, thanking God for all the gifts received, for the existence of the world, for the help given in various difficult circumstances, for our biological parents and for our spiritual fathers. His Beatitude also remembered the very special moment with His Beatitude Teoctist, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Professor Ion Smedescu, RAU Founding Rector on the occasion of the Consecration of the Romanian-American University Chapel in 2007.

Allow us to remember that Professor Ion Smedescu, Founding Rector of the Romanian-American University, chose the same day as Rev. Prof. Dr.  Dumitru Stăniloae, the 5th of October (1993, namely 2008), to step on the path of eternity. Former student of the „Christian love Theologian” – Father Staniloae, Professor Ion Smedescu often mentioned Father Staniloae, speaking of the misterious beauty of a wonderful landscape and the necessity of the conscious sense of the ordinance, of the beauty, in order to perform a task the right way, in joyful communion.

It is also worth to highlight that Rev. Prof. Dr.  Dumitru Stăniloae was the mentor of the scholar Dan-Ilie Ciobotea who prepared, under his distinguished supervision within the context of “Doctor in Orthodox theology” process, the thesis “Christian Theology and Spirituality. The relation between them and the present state of things”. On the occasion of this thesis presentation, Rev. Prof. Dr. Dumitru Stăniloae said: “It is this kind of people that we need, people wishing to live according to the teaching of our Church”

(http://basilica.ro/stiri/preafericitul-parinte-patriarh-daniel-la-62-de-ani-_8737.html).