The IMAGES MULTIMEDIA -- a retail & consumer intelligence organisation with research & consulting, publications & portals, education & training, events and awards - has been actively involved with over 10,000 key brands, retailers, shopping centre developers from across the globe and the entire retail support network for past 18 years.

Setting its moorings in the fashion-and-lifestyle arena in 1992, IMAGES has come to be acknowledged as the most authentic and trusted mouthpiece of the fashion and retail businesses in the country equipping the industry with the knowledge that drives businesses across the globe.

The IMAGES Group supports a series of fashion, branding, marketing, franchising and retail events in India, Middle East and in other parts of the world.

With over a dozen niche publications, IMAGES effectively addresses every aspect of retail businesses to urban consumer aspirations and the modern man’s lifestyle spaces.

The publications in the B2B segment include the flagship IMAGES Business of Fashion, IMAGES Retail (Hindi and English editions), Shopping Centre News and IMAGES Shoes & Accessories. The B2C publications include IMAGES Fashion and Life (FNL) and M.

Progressive Grocer, SALON International, Sportswear International, GO India and LIVING etc are the international titles published in India by the IMAGES Group.

IMAGES’ concepts of demand creation among consumers have excited world's best media power houses and many are partnering with IMAGES to launch a number of niche consumer and business magazines in India. In the pipeline are many more niche publications.

IMAGES works closely with top global consulting & research organisations and trade bodies. Top level executives from the industry invest on an average about 100 hrs a year with IMAGES conferences, collages, research and various other activities to strengthen its efforts to propel modern retail & set lifestyle trends in India. Advisory Board of IMAGES consists of major Indian corporates, investors, top professionals and leading world retail authorities.

Central to all IMAGES endeavours is market research. While IMAGES F&R Research functions as a specialty research unit for various IMAGES studies and reports, IMAGES Retail Intelligence Services (IRIS) is a full fledged research and consulting organization working specifically for the retail industry.

The IMAGES Group has set global benchmarks in creating mega fora for the retail industries notably the INDIA FASHION FORUM (IFF) with INDIA TEXTILE FORUM, INDIA BEAUTY FORUM, INDIA RETAIL FORUM (IRF), the INDIA SHOPPING CENTRE FORUM (ISCF) and the FOOD FORUM INDIA (FFI) with conferences, CEO Meets, Workshops, Exhibitions and Awards.

Global knowledge power houses, visionaries, world renowned motivators and political think tanks converge at these fora. Widely acknowledged as the largest intellectual and information exchange fora, these events are hugely attended by senior decision makers of the industry, government and the national and international media.

To felicitate achievements and achievers, IMAGES Awards honour the most deserving across categories, formats and concepts in each of these fora.

A specialized trade show for women & kidsware titled ´PURE AND PLAY´ was launched by the IMAGES Group in the year 2007. IMAGES also organizes ´The Shop´ event in major cities of India.

INDIA BRAND SHOW (IBS) was conceptualised by the IMAGES Group in the year 2006 with leading global and Indian lifestyle brands presenting their new collections with their respective brand ambassadors and country’s leading models walking the ramp.

The IMAGES Group has been responsible in forming the Fashion Alliance with a vision of a Fashionable India where pioneers and leaders of the fashion industry join in to take fashion directly to consumers and represent the unified force of the country’s fashion forwardness. The formation of Shopping Centres Association of India has been yet another initiative by the IMAGES Group to bring key stakeholders in the business together.

The retail portal of the IMAGES’ Group www.indiaretailing.com has in a short span of time earned accolades for being the “The Home Page of the Indian Retailing Industry”. A similar initiative www.imagesfood.com has been launched to serve the food industry.

IMAGES fora (conclaves, ceo meets, exhibitions and awards) attract industry big wigs and have almost cent per cent attendance of the key stakeholders.

Among IMAGES GROUP’s most recent initiative is the IMAGES KNOWLEDGE HOUSE which has introduced knowledge Series: Open Programs and Training Workshops on retail, fashion and shopping centre management.

IMAGES has received global recognition for its bold initiatives -- developing Indian market, making consumers aware and growing retail. Breakthroughs will continue to be a part of the IMAGES philosophy. The happiness of the journey is in the journey itself; the goals and milestones work themselves out along the way.

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