PAVE - The Planning and Visual Education Partnership

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PAVE session at StoreXpo
JAY VALGORA TO SPEAK AT STOREXPO

Hollywood, FL (Oct. 30, 2006)— Renowned architect and urban designer Jay Valgora is the featured speaker at a PAVE-sponsored session at StoreXpo in New York in December. The session is titled "The Department Store Dilemma: What’s Next? Epicenter—A New Vision for Active and Interactive Retail."

Today’s merchants must find new avenues for growth, keep costs under control, and project their brand. They need a new way to retail that meets both the needs of consumers and the realities of business. Valgora, principal of Studio V Architecture, presents a new template for the shopping experience, The Epicenter Collection, a retailing revolution. By combining the technology and convenience of online and catalog shopping with superb store retailing, it allows a unique community of merchants to sell their products in an innovative way. It enables merchants to create their own retailing spaces within Epicenter’s striking architectural framework and keep start-up costs low.

The session is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 7, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. For more information, visit http://www.paveinfo.org/events/events_storexpo.cfm.

Tickets are available for $85 and can be purchased online through StoreXpo. For info, visit http://www.paveinfo.org/events/events_storexpo.cfm.

Editor’s Note:
Members of the media are encouraged to attend this session. Press should register on-line at http://www.storexpo.info/register.php for the show. Then, onsite, visit the Speaker Ready/Press Room for seminar passes, bring your business card or press credentials as proof. Click here to download a high-resolution image of Jay Valgora.

StoreXpo, the New York visual merchandising show, presented by VM & SD Magazine, will take place Dec. 6-8, 2006, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in NYC. Join fellow industry professionals and see cutting-edge innovations in visual merchandising on the show floor of the Javits Convention Center as well as at participating New York showrooms. And take advantage of the show’s co-located with TREX to see what is happening in P-O-P.

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 seminars, workshops, and PAVE’s annual fund-raising Gala with proceeds dedicated to financial aid and internships for qualified students.