John Lewis visits LJMU

Staff from Trafford’s John Lewis Visual Merchandising & Community teams visited the Redmond’s Building recently to lead a cross-curricular visual merchandising workshop with students from the Liverpool Business School and Liverpool School of Art and Design.

Students from the Business & Public Relations, Business Communications and Fashion degree programmes who are participating in two separate Young Enterprise-LJMU programmes came together to attend the workshop. They listened to a fascinating talk about the John Lewis organisation and how the merchandising team coordinate their visual merchandising in store. Students then participated in some activities to try out their own visual merchandising skills, producing a seaonally-themed display for a John Lewis store.

 

Sally Partington, Enterprise Education Officer from LJMU’s Centre for Entrepreneurship said:

“We are very grateful to Carole Hartley and Edd Fearn from the John Lewis team for taking the time to come and share their expertise with our students. Their workshop really got the students thinking about how they can merchandise the products that they are producing for their business and fashion projects to good effect”.