his month we have been creating a Visual Merchandising Manual for some lovely new clients at the Essex Wildlife Trust. Creating bespoke VM guidelines which will help to achieve effective and consistent presentation standards across their retail sites.

The manual contains lots of easy to implement visual examples, giving the user an overview of the key VM principles and how these can then be successfully implemented across the shop floor. Techniques are clearly explained within the visuals to ensure effective implementation, even for staff members who are not professionally trained in Visual Merchandising. 

Wishing all our Visual Merchandising Courses blog readers a Very Happy, Healthy, Abundant & Peaceful 2023 !

Thank you for all your custom and support for my business over the past year, its very much appreciated.

Happy New Year !

Sarah x

Wishing all our VMC blog readers Happy Holidays !

Just before Christmas I ran the final Visual Merchandising workshop of 2022 in London on behalf of The London School of Trends for their fantastic Interior Design students attending their December courses.

I planned the VM workshop so that it would be a practical based course, where I could also incorporate a retail safari across London, to present the festive Visual merchandising to the students and for them to see the styling principles in place on our high streets ! Within the retail safari tour, we visited Tom Dixon in Coals Drop Yard, then headed over to Liberty’s and Selfridges. I have included within the photos below beautiful examples of Visual merchandising seen at these stores.

This month I’ve really enjoyed teaching the 8 week Visual Merchandising Module to the Fashion Branding Students at The University of West London.
It was great to be back teaching in person and inspiring to see the students taking a great interest in the Visual Merchandising industry.

It was fantastic to be invited to teach an in person Visual Merchandising Course for the Matalan Visual Merchandising team this month. Although I enjoy teaching my courses online, it was good to be back teaching and training retailers in person !  

This in person course for Matalan was held at their recently relaunched store in Milton Keynes. The course program had a mixture of theory and practical tasks. Running this training course on site and within a store is very beneficial for the attendees as we can work within the shop floor space and with their unique merchandise.