Congratulations to Global Furnishings, winners of the third annual Intercollegiate Retail Challenge hosted by NRF Foundation and American Express.  During this year’s challenge, students evaluated the risks and rewards of expanding operations of a well established, modestly-priced furniture store into China in order to test how the company’s brand and product line would be received.
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Earlier this month, NRF Foundation’s Director of Retail Learning Solutions, Sarah Conrad, traveled to Beijing to deliver the first of three unprecedented retail train-the-trainer programs in China.  She worked with local trainers to launch the program, Retail Operations Management, targeting corporate employers, vocational students, and graduates of retail university programs.  We caught up with her and [...]

NRF Foundation is thrilled to welcome Longwood University as a new College Partner and member of our Retail Careers Community! I had the pleasure of meeting several faculty members from Longwood awhile back, and was really excited to hear about their retail programs (so much so that I’m tempted to go back to school…).
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