Do you know which of the following companies recently hired a former store associate as the new CEO?

Crate & Barrel
PetSmart
Best Buy
Walgreens

Visit the NRF Foundation’s Learning Activities webpage, submit your answer, and view the results!

Eastman Chemical Company and the Department of Industrial Design at Auburn University unveiled results from their retail design program, in which students research real-world design challenges and develop cutting-edge displays.
The students’ final designs included displays for DVDs, coffee, linens and an overhead “skyline” fixture for self check-out kiosks. The semester-long project was documented by [...]

Below is the “RetailNet Consulting” Aspire2Retail Challenge Winning Team together at last!

Starting from left:  Ashley Cline (Florida State Univeristy), Sarah Losse (University of Arizona),Samantha Weaver (University of Florida), Alex West (Univeristy of Michigan), and Kyle Bender (University of Wisconsin)
This fabulous weekend in New York City was extravagant! Along with meeting and networking with some [...]

After spending two days at NRF’s Big Show, I was starting to get feel for the place. Here’s a recap of my Day Three (Tuesday, January 13).
Retailers Doing Well by Doing Right: 11:00AM-12:00PM
The first lecture I went to today was down in Hall E, where I heard Morley Ivers of RecycleBank and Tom Szaky of [...]

Shop.org, the digital division of the National Retail Federation, awarded $2,500 scholarships to each of the six students from the winning team of the Intercollegiate Retail Challenge. The students were surprised with the scholarship announcement after making their presentation of their winning strategy to attendees at NRF’s Annual Convention and EXPO on January 11, 2009.
The [...]