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Apr10

Vice President of Visual Merchandising at OfficeMax on a career in retail: time flies when you’re having fun

By Angela Elder, Sr. Director of Career Development Programs, NRF Foundation | Published: April 10, 2012
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Chuck Luckenbill, Vice President of Visual Merchandising at OfficeMax, has had a rich career in retail. Luckenbill has held senior leadership positions in visual merchandising and store design with Kohl’s, Carson Pirie Scott & Co. and Dayton-Hudson Department Stores, before joining OfficeMax in 2007. In our joint NRF STORES interview, he shares a lot of [...]

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Feb13

Customers’ Choice top ten recipients offering diverse retail job opportunities

By Lanae Spruce, Guest Blogger, NRF Foundation | Published: February 13, 2012
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Want to work for a company voted as one of the top ten in the nation for their exemplary customer service? Sounds amazing, right? Don’t fret, we’ve complied a list of the top ten recipients of the 2011 Customers’ Choice Awards! The coveted awards were given Tuesday, January 17, at the Annual Retail Industry Luncheon [...]

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May17

Jay H. Baker Retailing Center: training students to take leadership roles in the retailing world

By Angela Elder, Sr. Director of Career Development Programs, NRF Foundation | Published: May 17, 2011
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Given NRF Foundation’s extensive involvement with college and university retail programs across the country, we were thrilled to hear that STORES would be interviewing Barbara Kahn, the new Director of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at  The Wharton School. In our continuation of that interview, we find out more about the Retailing Center’s programs, impressive [...]

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Apr18

Florida State University’s Retail Center: shaping tomorrow’s leaders and advancing retailing

By Kelley Hundahl Zocks, Manager of Program and Outreach Services, NRF Foundation | Published: April 18, 2011
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As colleges and universities get ready to send out a new crop of graduates into the working world this Spring, we decided now would be a good time to check in with one of our university partners, Florida State University, and find out what’s happening at their Center for Retail Merchandising and Product Development. We [...]

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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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