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NRF WINNERS: Gordon Segal, Crate & Barrel’s chief executive officer, will receive the National Retail Federation’s Gold Medal Award. It’s the trade association’s highest honor presented at the annual NRF convention in New York.
Other awards to be presented at the convention are: International Retailer of the Year Award, Daniel Bernard, chairman and ceo of Carrefour; the Innovator’s Award, the Sephora beauty chain; the Silver Plaque Award, Edward Carroll, executive vice president of marketing and sales, Carson Pirie Scott & Co., and Distinguished Service Award, Irwin Cohen, global managing director, consumer business practice, Deloitte & Touche.
The convention will be held Jan. 16-19 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.
RUTTENSTEIN’S AWARD: The Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, the college for studying the business of fashion, will present its Crystal Star Award to Kal Ruttenstein, senior vice president for fashion direction at Bloomingdale’s, at its annual Fashion Education Foundation Luncheon, May 5 at the Waldorf Astoria.
Ann Jackson, group publisher of InStyle magazine, will also receive the award.
The award recognizes outstanding achievements in the fashion industry.
LIM is an accredited, four-year private college located at 12 East 53rd Street in Manhattan.
ELECTED OFFICERS: Visual New York, an alliance of visual merchandising, display and design companies with permanent showrooms in New York, held its annual meeting last month and has elected Darcy Bisker, president; David Terveen, vice president, and George Dell, treasurer.
Bisker, under contract with Kodak for the design and promotion of the firm’s showroom, is a former vice president of Cies Sexton Visual.
Terveen, beginning his second term as VNY’s vice president, owns DK Display, which represents mannequin, fixture and form firms.
Dell, among the industry’s most influential people, operates a visual display, furniture and fixturing firm under his own name.