Tag Archives: China

May04

Student group travels to China to study international retail, Part Two

By Corinne Hirsch, NRF Foundation | Published: May 4, 2010
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After interviewing Jerry O’Brien, we decided to get the student’s perspective on Kohl’s Department Stores Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s spring break trip to China. We talked to Sarah Ackerman, president of the Student Retail Association and asked her to share her experience on international retailing in Hong Kong and Shanghai. UW-Madison has [...]

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Apr14

NRFF retail curriculum success spreads to China

By Corinne Hirsch, NRF Foundation | Published: April 14, 2010
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NRF Foundation’s Executive Director, Kathy Mance, traveled to Beijing, China earlier this month to follow up on a training program first delivered in December.  While there, Kathy watched a retail training program in action (and delivered in Chinese!), tasted new cuisine and climbed the Great Wall of China. But what excited her most was learning about the retail opportunities [...]

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Dec22

Developing China’s Future Retail Managers

By Corinne Hirsch, NRF Foundation | Published: December 22, 2009
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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 [...]

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