{"id":4325,"date":"2016-05-17T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=4325"},"modified":"2016-05-17T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:20:28","slug":"business-and-management-retail-students-gain-commercial-experience-at-phase-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/05\/business-and-management-retail-students-gain-commercial-experience-at-phase-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Business and Management (Retail) students gain commercial experience at Phase Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_2384.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4327\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4327 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_2384.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2384\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_2384.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_2384-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifteen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/2016\/872\/business-and-management-retail-with-a-year-in-industry\">BA Business and Management (Retail)<\/a> students recently benefited from direct commercial experience at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phase-eight.com\/\">Phase Eight<\/a>, a highly successful British fashion retailer.\u00a0Debbie Kemp, Lecturer in Retail, Innovation and Enterprise, led the corporate visit at Phase Eight\u2019s Head Office in London.<\/p>\n<p>Student participants were fortunate to experience a tour of Phase Eight\u2019s offices, design studios and fit rooms and heard presentations from the company\u2019s designers, buyers, merchandisers and technical team.<\/p>\n<p>The field trip sought to reinforce students\u2019 academic learning as final year BA Business and Management (Retail) student Adrian Ip shares:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were delighted to visit one of the fastest growing fashion retailers in the UK. Phase Eight staff shared their company and industry experience which gave us a clear picture of the whole process of retail buying.<\/p>\n<p>We were also given the chance to visit the Phase Eight office that would otherwise be restricted for visitors. It was a great experience to see the retail industry from a real-life perspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>For further information about the BA Business and Management (Retail), please contact Debbie Kemp at <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:D.Kemp@kent.ac.uk\"><strong>D.Kemp@kent.ac.uk<\/strong><\/a><strong> or 01634 202951<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen BA Business and Management (Retail) students recently benefited from direct commercial experience at Phase Eight, a highly successful British fashion retailer.\u00a0Debbie Kemp, Lecturer in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/05\/business-and-management-retail-students-gain-commercial-experience-at-phase-eight\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,19112,9883],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}