The David F. Miller Center
for Retailing Education and Research

This course offers opportunities for working on real retail/marketing programs as interacting retail clients. The course is designed for students who want to have practical but insightful experiences in retail/marketing.

Mr. Alcorn joined JCPenney in 1968 as a sales associate and continued to move and grow within the company after graduation from the University of Florida in 1971.

Dr. Bart Weitz, Director of the Miller Center for Retailing met with the Associate Dean of the Fundacao Getulio Vargas Center for Retailing Excellence, Juracy Parente. This meeting in early May marked the beginning of what will be a successful partnership between the two Centers.

Joshua Early, a senior business student, won second place in the third annual ACRA Undergraduate Student Retail Analysis Competition. The Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Company sponsored the competition by providing valuable company data and resources.

The David F. Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research is hosting a 3-day tour of New York City with 15 Executives from China. The Executives work for the Beijing Modern Plaza, an upscale department store.

Not quite...This spring, The Retail Society travelled to The Villages, Florida to catch a glimpse of the lives of over 70,000 happily retired individuals.

Sylvia Borek, one of Warrington's top students, recently won first place in the 2nd Annual ACRA (AmericCollegiate Retailing Association) Charrette in Toronto, Canada.

The Retail Society was awarded Service Project of the Year at the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Awards Ceremony on April 15, 2008. Retail Society President, Michelle Rossi, accepted the award on behalf of the organization. This award marks the first for The Retail Society since they were founded in 2006. The service project, which took place during the Fall semester, was titled "Build-A-Bear, Make a Smile." Build-A-Bear Workshops donated 20 bears to the Society and a bear-making party took place in November. In December, a group of students travelled to Shands Hospital to bring some smiles and cheer to the children of the Pediatric ICU in the Congenital Heart Center. With the help of Build-A-Bear, this project will continue in Fall semesters to come and allow The Retail Society to reach out to other children around the University of Florida community.