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Release Date: Immediate • Contact: Catharine Scott
Phone: 954-893-7225, ext. 4834 • Fax: 954-893-8375
E-mail: pave@paveinfo.org
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PAVE and GlobalShop Partnership Raises Additional $5,000
Hollywood, Fla. (June 17, 2009)—The Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) and GlobalShop are pleased to announce that an additional $5,000 has been donated to PAVE as part of a five-year partnership between PAVE and GlobalShop. In two years, GlobalShop has donated over $15,000 to PAVE to support retail design and visual merchandising education.
“PAVE is pleased with our ongoing association with GlobalShop. We’re grateful for the additional funding that will help students and their schools maintain a high level of education in retail design and visual merchandising,” said Richard Stolls, president, PAVE.
“As the nation’s leading retail design trade show, GlobalShop is proud to support the industry’s educational future through PAVE. GlobalShop and PAVE have worked together on a variety of efforts in the past, and now the second year of our new pact takes our affiliation to the next level,” said Doug Hope, founder, GlobalShop.
PAVE is steadily increasing the dollars contributed to retail design students and educational programs. In 2008, in addition of $22,000 in grants through the Student Design Competition, PAVE awarded $25,000 to educational institutions to expand their programs and services or students through the new Helping Hand Fund. And, PAVE is launching a new student aid program this fall to provide assistance to students facing economic hardship in the recession. “GlobalShop’s donations reflect a commitment to our industry’s future, nurturing and supporting programs for today's design students that will keep tomorrow’s retail environments industry vibrant,” said Klein Merriman, executive director, PAVE. progress.
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About PAVE
Founded in 1992, The Planning and Visual Education Partnership’s (PAVE) objective is to encourage students to study in the field of retail design and planning and visual merchandising through its annual Student Design Competition. Additionally, PAVE seeks to encourage retail management, store planners, visual merchandisers, architects, and manufacturers to interact with and support design students. This is accomplished through projects, seminars, workshops, and the annual fundraising Gala with proceeds dedicated to educational programs and projects benefiting students. PAVE is a 501(c)(3) educational foundation administered by A.R.E.
About Nielsen Business Media (Producer of GlobalShop)
Nielsen Business Media is a full-service event management company that professionally operates, arranges, organizes and sponsors trade shows, expositions, conferences, conventions and meetings for associations, corporations and government entities. Nielsen is also one of the world's largest leading publishing and information companies and has leading marketing positions in consumer magazines, directories and information services, business information and educational publishing.
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