Partners

DECA's business partners provide strategic advice on organizational policy, professional insight on content and crucial financial support for programming. DECA's business partners are recognized as our National Advisory Board (NAB). DECA's NAB partnerships reflect our founding mission and program strength. Each enhances the classroom experience by providing "real world" application to learning. In exchange, the NAB partners gain access to a network of 5,000 classrooms and 200,000 high school and college students who are working to prepare themselves to be leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality and management. Additionally, NAB members value DECA members because they demonstrate competence, innovation, integrity and teamwork.

The NAB includes corporations, foundations and associations that seek to support the development of leaders and entrepreneurs that will be successful in a global economy and will be their companys' employees and leaders, their associations' members and staff and responsible community leaders. In short, DECA's NAB is investing in futures.

• Finish Line
  Employs Collegiate DECA graduates
  Employs DECA members as part-time associates
  Promotes company products/services Read More +
• Safeway, Inc.
  Safeway is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America. We operate over 1600 stores in the United States and Canada, including Carrs in Alaska, Chicago-based Dominick's, Randalls and Tom Thumb in Texas and Vons in Southern California and Nevada. Read More +
• Sears Holdings Corporation
  Sears Holdings Corporation is the nation's fourth largest broadline retailer with approximately 3,900 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada. Sears Holdings Corporation operates through its subsidiaries, including Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Kmart Corporation. Read More +
• Marriott International, Inc.
  Develop the next generation's workforce in hospitality
  Promote Marriott hotels and their family of brands Read More +
• Men's Wearhouse
  George Zimmer, Founder and Chairman of the Men's Wearhouse, believes in giving back to the communities and people in which his company serves. As such, all the Men's Wearhouse brands extend the company's citizenship arm on both a local and national level. Men's Wearhouse is proud to be in partnership with DECA, helping young men and women prepare for success in college and in their professional careers. Read More +
• National Automotive Parts Association
  Employ DECA members as part-time associates
  Employ DECA graduates
  Promote company products/services Read More +
• Publix Super Markets, Inc.
  Publix Super Markets is the largest and fastest-growing employee-owned supermarket chain in the United States. Publix and our associates excel in community involvement, volunteerism and a commitment to our market areas and beyond. Publix's commitment to diversity has contributed to our success in being a great place to work and shop. Read More +
• Muscular Dystrophy Association
  The country's largest private-sector, nonprofit sponsor of muscle disease research, MDA is on the threshold of delivering treatments and cures for more than 40 muscle-wasting disorders that affect more than a million Americans. MDA serves adults and children at 225 hospital-affiliated clinics and offers unparalleled medical and support services. Read More +
• National Apartment Association Education Institute
  NAAEI provides broad-based education, training and recruitment programs that attract, nurture and retain high-quality professionals and develop tomorrow’s apartment industry leaders. Read More +
• Foot Locker, Inc.
  Promote the next generations workforce in retail
  Promote the Foot Locker brand and its products/services Read More +
• Hilton Worldwide
  Since Conrad Hilton bought his first hotel in 1919, Hilton Worldwide has expanded geographically, produced original hotel and travel concepts and developed innovative technologies to enhance the guest experience - making us the leading global hospitality company. Read More +
• Kmart
  Kmart is a subsidiary of the Sears Holdings Corporation, the nation's fourth largest broadline retailer with approximately 3,900 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada. Sears Holdings Corporation operates through its subsidiaries, Kmart Corporations and Sears, Roebuck and Co Read More +
• Stein Mart, Inc.
  Employs graduates
  Employs part-time cooperative students
  Promotes products and services Read More +
• Vector Marketing Corporation
  Recruit for postsecondary education/training
  Promote company products/services Read More +
• Walgreen Co.
  Employ graduates
  Employ DECA members as part-time associates Read More +
• Journeys
  Retail footwear Read More +
• H&R Block
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