Friday, May 22, 2009

PAST INTERNSHIP: YANSI FUGEL

A CMCL MAJOR HELD THIS INTERNSHIP IN THE PAST. THIS IS NOT A CURRENT INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY! TO SEE IF THIS COMPANY/ORGANIZATION IS CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR INTERNS, YOU SHOULD CONTACT THE COMPANY/ORGANIZATION DIRECTLY.

Area of Internship: Public Relations
Brief Description of Company or Organization: Yansi Fugel is a company that specializes in upper-class women’s sportswear.

Description of Duties: Souring research and organization of Design library including sketches, trim materials and production records. Follow up on various projects. Assist in Fashion Show presentation for national sales staff in launching the YANSI FUGEL pre-Spring 2003 collection. Also assisted in putting looks together for national advertising campaign for the Spring 03 season.

Student Feedback
Best Liked: Gaining a wonderful understanding of many fundamentals of the fashion industry.

Contact Info
530 Seventh Avenue, 29th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 869-1121
Fax: (212) 764-9188

PAST INTERNSHIP: MELON

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Area of Internship: Fashion/Retail

Brief Description of Company or Organization: Retail store located right outside New York City in Brooklyn, NY as well as Melon Two, located in Marlboro, New Jersey. Both stores specialize in selling the leading women’s sports wear and apparel of today’s fashion world.

Description of Duties: Working as an assist and under the owner and public relations director, viewing look books sent by clothing companies to pull out the merchandise to sell in stores, going to NYC’s garment district showrooms to meet the distributors and get a first hand look at the on goings of buying within actual showrooms, working as sales representative in the store, answering phones, compiling and organizing inventory, selecting which clothing will be displayed

Contact Info
301 Brian Drive
Morganville, NJ 07751
Phone: (732) 208-5855

PAST INTERNSHIP: GEORGE WEINTRAUB AND SONS, INC.

A CMCL MAJOR HELD THIS INTERNSHIP IN THE PAST. THIS IS NOT A CURRENT INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY! TO SEE IF THIS COMPANY/ORGANIZATION IS CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR INTERNS, YOU SHOULD CONTACT THE COMPANY/ORGANIZATION DIRECTLY.

Brief Description of Company or Organization: George Weintraub and Sons, Inc. is a major men’s clothing manufacturer with brands that include Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein.

Description of Duties: take orders from customers, transfer orders to warehouse, help prepare samples for seminars, sit in on meetings with customers, take inventory, learn about buying fabrics, manufacturing, selling, and distribution

Student Feedback
Best Liked: gaining the experience of working for a major company in New York City
Least Liked: not getting a chance to see the distribution warehouse in New Jersey

Contact Info
1350 East 6th Ave.
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 581-8708

PAST INTERNSHIP: ELEANOR WINDMAN INTERIORS

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Area of Internship: Interior Design
Location: New York, NY

Brief Description of Company or Organization: Eleanor Windman Interiors is an interior design group, handling clientele that need to design or redesign their homes, office, etc. They present fabric choices and design strategies for the customer.

Description of Duties: filing, shopping for fabrics, color selections, phone calls, follow ups

Contact Info
SEE RED BINDER AT SECOND-FLOOR FRONT DESK IN CLASSROOM/OFFICE BUILDING (800 E. 3RD ST.)

PAST INTERNSHIP: EDRESSME.COM

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Area of Internship: Fashion
Location: New York, NY

Brief Description of Company or Organization: Edressme.com is a full service internet site for women’s apparel. The store specializes in dresses designed by Joanna Stoner as well as other top name brand manufacturers. The company is located in the heart of the fashion district in NYC and works in alliance with major fashion magazines like, Instyle Magazine.

Description of Duties: pulling orders, inspecting all details, steam and organizing, assisting customers, packing, writing all copy for all new styles placed on website, contacting vendors about all details o style, visiting sites to meet with PR departments, discussing advertisements in publications, attending the fall fashion trade show to learn the buying and selling process

Student Feedback
Best Liked: living in NYC, meeting writers and developing contacts in other parts of the fashion industry
Least Liked: lack of a professional environment

Contact Info
7 Park Ave, Suite 20A
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 204-6569

PAST INTERNSHIP: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.

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Area of Internship: Sales/marketing/data
Date of Internship: Summer 2006
Location: Lake Forest, IL

Brief Description of Company or Organization: W.W. Grainger is the leading North American industrial distributor of products used by businesses to maintain, repair, and operate their facilities. It was founded in Chicago in 1927 and in 2005 reached $5.5 billion in sales. They have over 600 branches and 18 distribution centers in their network to help save customer’s time and money by having the right products to keep their facility running.

Responsibilities of Internship: Help to gather information regarding Grainger’s marketing approach to help revise and better the system being used. The sales effectiveness team would like to wipe the slate clean and start anew, and the internship is made to facilitate that process. Learn and help plan the Spring corporate wide meeting, which takes place in Orlando.

Contact Info
100 Grainger Parkway
Lake Forest, IL
60045
Phone:(847) 535-4267

PAST INTERNSHIP: WALSH CONSTRUCTION

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Area of Internship: Marketing/Graphic Design
Date of Internship: Summer 2006

Brief Description of Company or Organization: Walsh Construction is a Chicago-based general contracting, construction management and design-build firm. Largest construction firm in Chicago, as well as national top 20 contractors. Walsh construction delivers highly competitive, quality construction work.

Responsibilities of Internship: Reformatting over 400 resumes and creating PDF documents, assisting with proposals and prequalification documents. Also assisting with re-design of website and road show booths, creating general marketing books, writing for the magazine and books, ect. General department tasks.

Contact Info
929 W. Adams St.
Chicago, IL 60480
Phone: (312) 563-5400

PAST INTERNSHIP: UNIVERSITY OF DREAMS

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Area of Internship: Marketing/Advertising
Date of Internship: May-Aug 2008

Brief Description of Company or Organization: Univeristy of Dreams provides students the chance to gain summer internship experiences in cities such as Chicago, LA, San Diego, Miami and new York.

Description of Duties: Marketing and advertising the program to potential participants, including creating flyers, facebook groups, emails, etc.

Student Feedback
Best Liked: Great learning experience in marketing.
Least Liked: Occasionally had to miss conference calls due to other obligations.

Contact Info
333 N. Michigan Ave.
Suite 415
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: (312) 701-1015

PAST INTERNSHIP: TOWERS PRODUCTIONS

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Area of Internship: Production/TV
Date of Internship: May-Aug 2008

Brief Description of Company or Organization: Towers Productions has produced over one thousand hours of factual and entertainment programming for US and international television networks including A&E, The Biography Channel, CNN, The History Channel, Discovery Networks and Lifetime.

Description of Duties: Log field tapes and sound bites, digitizing, assembling, motion control, scanning images using Photoshop, tracking, and editing.

Student Feedback
Best Liked: Great learning experience with coworkers as well as previously unfamiliar equipment.
Least Liked: Did not get to observe all departments in the company.

Contact Info
549 Randolph Suite 300
Chicago, IL 60661
Phone: (312) 601-6964

PAST INTERNSHIP: THE OBLONG GEM

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Area of Internship: Media, Production
Date of Internship: May-Aug 2008
Location: Oblong, IL

Brief Description of Company or Organization: The Oblong Gem is Crawford County, Illinois’ weekly newspaper.

Description of Duties: Writing feature articles, covering and photographing local events, working through the process of compiling the paper, and learning everything it takes to publish a weekly paper.

Student Feedback
Best Liked: “Joy” of having articles published and read.
Least Liked: Working on a deadline was often hectic.

Contact Info
SEE RED BINDER AT SECOND-FLOOR FRONT DESK IN CLASSROOM/OFFICE BUILDING (800 E. 3RD ST.)