David F. Miller Center for Retailing Education and ResearchLocated in the Warrington College of Business Administration and working within the University of Florida community, the Miller Retail Center strives to develop tomorrow's leaders by stimulating interest in retail careers, preparing students for entry-level management, providing continuing education opportunities, facilitating communications between retailers and academics, and researching retail issues and opportunities. |
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This Week's Events
Maxine Clark, Founder and Chief Executive Bear at Build A Bear Workshop will share her knowledge and expertise about the challenges, opportunities and how to be successful in a retail career and she will answer questions from participants. This webinar will be the first in a monthly series sponsored by Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research and the Florida Retail Federation to give college students an opportunity to interact with and learn from C-level retail executives.
More information about Ms. Clark and the webinarLary Sinewitz, executive vice president of Brandsmart USA, will come to speak at the Retail Society meeting in Stuzin 200 at 5:30pm about the company's green initiative. Come hear what Brandsmart changed as it developed stores in the Atlanta market. Everyone is welcomed.
Sears Holdings Retail Management Seminar
Scott Boyer, Store Manager, JCPenney
Retail Center News
Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research and the Florida Retail Federation Pathways Webinar Series are launching a monthly webinar series to give college students young professionals in retailing an opportunity to interact with and learn from C-level retail executives. C-level executives will share their knowledge and expertise with college students will better understand the challenges, opportunities and how to be successful in a retail career. The first executive is Maxine Clark, Founder and Chief Executive Bear at Build A Bear Workshop.
Register Today for this free Webinar at www.bit.ly/pathways01!
The David F. Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research received a federal grant of $95,000 per year for two years for a project aimed to address the challenges and requirements of the global retail force with special focus on the BRIC nations - Brazil, Russia, India and China. The grant was awarded by the US Department of Education - Business and International Education (BIE) Program.
The YMA FSF has changed my life. I'm serious. I had no idea that entering a fashion case study contest two days before the deadline was going to turn into such a great thing for my career.
"So what is YMA FSF anyway," you might be asking? Well, it is a non-profit organization that stands for Young Men's Association Fashion Scholarship Fund. The organization was started decades ago to foster and aid the educational and professional development of future leaders in the fashion industry. Every year, YMA FSF awards fifty $5,000 scholarships to design and business students interested in retailing or any aspect of fashion industry. The award money must be spent on the pursuit of each scholar's fashion goals. Along with the prize money comes a guaranteed internship in New York City with one of the YMA's partnered companies. The partnered companies are not little "no-name" brands either. They are household names such as Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Nautica, Perry Ellis, Vanity Fair, Zac Posen, Geoffery Beene, and Macys, to name a few.
On a sultry September afternoon, JCPenney visited the University of Florida and hosted the first ice cream social. The purpose of the event was to be able to communicate the vast opportunities of retailing careers, but in an environment where students can engage in conversation. In the past, retailers gathered to talk to students. This event was about JCPenney talking with students.
