IMAGES Multimedia Group

IMAGES Multimedia Group (established in 1992) has played a vital role in organizing the fashion and retail businesses in India and has successfully set up an information exchange via media that equips the trade with the knowledge that drives the fashion and retail businesses across the globe. Establishing a continuous flow of information through its activities facilitating networking amongst investors, retailers and brand leaders, IMAGES has emerged as the most vibrant link between the marketers and the market-place.

IMAGES Publications : IMAGES fashion & retail magazines enjoy the largest readership in their segments across the Indian sub continent & Middle-East with over half a million readers - Expanding its reach steadily in the markets of Far East and further making an entry to the European and US markets.

IMAGES (Business of Fashion) BOF focuses primarily on the merchandising, branding, marketing & retailing aspects of the business of fashion.

IMAGES Retail ( English and Hindi Editions) focuses on business of retail covering the entire gamut of retail & franchising operations. Key issues like investments and opportunities in retailing, formats, store design and operations, visual merchandising, logistics, consumer trends and metrics, real estate, security, supply chain & merchandise, customer management etc. are addressed in IMAGES Retail.

IMAGES Retail Middle-East, Middle-East's first fashion and retail magazine (published in April & October) closely tracks the fast changing dynamics and spot profitable options in tune with the large-scale developments in the region and also felicitates networking with the international fashion and retail fraternity.

IMAGES Fashion & Life ( FNL) : The only fashion broadsheet of its kind, landmarks the first ever publication that disseminates down-to-earth understanding of fashion for the urban consumer. A joint effort by IMAGES and leading fashion brands and stores, FNL has been conceptualized on the idea - How to excite the consumer to buy fresh - season after season. With exclusive photo features, reviews and easy-to-follow directions, each monthly edition is a painstakingly compiled market scan of the very best products the ready-to-wear fashion & lifestyle industry in India has to offer.

Annual Publications : Books published by IMAGES Multimedia like IMAGES Year Book, Malls in India & India Retail Report carry exhaustive information on fashion, retail and retail real estate markets with size, scope and performance of key players.

IMAGES F&R Research :The most trusted research organization in the field of Fashion & Retail, IMAGES Research Wing conducts most of the research work in the fashion & retail sector in this region for Govt., trade bodies, for its own publication and also feed the media in India & in the middle-east with information. IMAGES' studies of consumers, markets, brands and products give dictates for business strategy formation.

IMAGES Industry Association : Over the years IMAGES has emerged as an institution in the fashion arena that enjoys an enviable level of interaction with the country's corporate majors, leading companies, professionals and academia. IMAGES' advisory board, the most prestigious forum of top brand & retail companies, bureaucrats and experts, takes up relevant issues for policy formation at the Govt. & industry levels.

FASHION ALLIANCE, an IMAGES initiative : Being formed by dynamic entrepreneurs and professionals with a vision of " Fashionable India ", Fashion Alliance's core objective will be to grow fashion awareness, educate consumers on right fashion, inject the desire to look and feel good and give consumers enough and new reasons to buy. Members of Fashion Alliance, will grow the market together taking the fashion movement to masses.

The alliance offers enormous collaborative opportunities and the common interest will be to organise, expand and be profitable to all and in the process achieve individual targets. By initiating research & development programmes for various products, markets and consumer segments, Fashion Alliance will identify new avenues for growth and then develop these new categories of products, markets and consumers with joint effort of the members.

Setting benchmarks for business ethics, members of Fashion Alliance are committed to the cause of Corporate Social Responsibility.

IMAGES Events

IMAGES FORA : the most substantive intellectual & information exchanges for the fashion & retail business in the Indian sub-continent and the Middle-East, Images Fora are aimed at presenting the region to the global business audience, with the objective of inviting understanding on and investment in this massive marketplace.

With participation of some of the best brands, companies and minds from across the globe from the fields of fashion, design & architecture, visual merchandising, retail support, technology and promotion & retail real estate, Images For a contain world-class ideas on every activity directly or indirectly connected to fashion and retailing.

While the Images Fashion Forum (IFF) is held in Jan every year, the Images India Retail Forum is scheduled in mid September.

FASHION/ Retail VISION CONCLAVE : a platform for corporate heads and CEOs to brainstorm ideas.

Fashion/ Retail Theatre : Talk shows & interactive forums to find solutions for various channel partners - concept to retail.

EXPOS :

•  ASIA SHOP : the premier retail support systems and store design & accessories exposition of the Indian sub-continent.

•  SPRING BOARD : a launch pad for new Indian and international brands and new concepts.

•  TREND VIEW : showcase for trend directions based on nationwide market research and innovation worldwide.

•  L CUBE (Read as Location, Location, Location) : a dedicated platform providing access to the retail real estate opportunities available across India.

•  RETAIL ACCESS : the entrée for support vendors, service and merchandise suppliers to India's retail majors.

•  FRANCHISING EXPO : a forum for presentation of franchise concepts in retailing.

•  THE FUTURE SHOP : presents concepts of global technology providers with futuristic retail prototypes.

IMAGES CEO MEET : Held every year in July/ August in association with IBM, the two day residential meet sees convergence of over 125 CEOs discussing issues concerning the Indian fashion and retail industry. Besides, there are also various other meets that Images organises in major cities of India.

ICSC Events : Mr. Amitabh Taneja, Group Head IMAGES is also the Director of International Council of Shopping Centres in India, the largest retail & shopping centres' trade body in the world. IMAGES supports all ICSC activities, conferences & workhshops in India and Middle East.

IMAGES Awards :

LYCRA ® IMAGES FASHION AWARDS (LIFA), the culminating event of Images Fashion Forum & IMAGES RETAIL AWARDS (IRA) , the culminating event of India Retail Forum are the most awaited evenings of the year that felicitate the country's most admired brands, companies, stores, campaigns, innovations and professionals for their outstanding achievements with highest accolades in the business of fashion & retail. An exciting evening with international class entertainment and award presentations is followed by a nightlong celebration by over 1000 top-notch professionals from the industry.

IMAGES support to Industry Events : IMAGES also supports a large number of Fashion, Branding, Marketing, Franchising & Retail Events in India, M East and South East Asia.

IMM Advertising :   Only accredited agency specialising in fashion & retail.

IMAGES PR : Handles Trade Promotion & PR for leading MNCs in fashion & retail businesses .

Indian Retail School (IRS) : In association with Pearl Academy of Fashion, Images has opened country's first industry-led training initiative for the retail industry - the Indian Retail School in Delhi.

IRS is part of the newly instituted business outfit Images Pearl Retail Solutions Pvt Ltd. (IPRS), jointly promoted by Mr Deepak Seth, Chairman Pearl Global Limited & PAF and Mr Amitabh Taneja, Director, Images Multimedia. IPRS has been set up with an objective to provide complete retail solutions to the rapidly growing Indian retail sector.

Branches to come up soon in Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai. IRS is initially offering job-oriented courses in Store Operations/Management, Retail Marketing & Merchandise Management, Visual Merchandising, Supply Chain and Retail Management. These courses are of different durations, ranging from 30 Hours certification courses to 2 years Diploma Courses. IRS has also introduced Ministry of Defence (Govt. of India) sponsored programmes for the retiring Officers and retiring Personnel’s Below Officers Rank (PBOR’s).

In addition to the Academic offerings, the institute also offers consulting on various retail operations & functions on a need specific assignment as well as on turnkey basis. Some of these are :

1. Recruit & Train
2. Retail Operations
3. Visual Merchandising
4. Retail Selling Skills
5. Mystery Shopping
6. Supply Chain Management
7. Retail Excellence

For more info pl visit

www.imagesfashion.com ; www.imagesretail.com and www.imagesfashionforum.com

IMAGES Publications

Readership Profile & Circulation break up

• Readership of half a million across the Indian sub-continent. Also effective presence in the Middle-East, important markets in south-east Asia and circulation in Europe and the USA thru participation in various fashion and retail events (international circulation varies between 2,500 to10,000) .
• Strong penetration among premium stores and top brands & service providers.
• Circulated through subscriptions, Newsagents and tradeshows.

READERSHIP PROFILE

IMAGES Retail

Retailers, Store mangers, Distributors, Agents, Buying Houses 64.3%
Malls, Plaza developers & Managers, Potential investors in retail business 5.6%
Brand Owners and Marketers 10.5%
Suppliers and service providers to the retailers 9.6%
Academic Institutes, Media, advertising and PR agencies, consultants etc. 4.2%
Govt. & Trade bodies, Foreign Embassies & Trade Commissions 1.8%
Misc. 4.0%

Readership Break up in India
North 32% East 15% West 31% South 22%
Metros & Mini Metros - 78 % Major Town & Cities - 22 %

IMAGES Business of Fashion, (BOF )
Fashion Retailers, Store mangers, Distributors, Agents, Buying Houses 37.2%
Fashion Brand Owners and Marketers 12.6%
Fashion (clothing, textles & beautycare) Manufacturers and Exporters 24.7%
Suppliers and service providers to the fashion makers and retailer            3.8%
Academic Institutes, students, designers, research bodies 7.9%
Media, advertising and PR agencies, consultants etc. 3.6%
Govt. bodies, Trade associations, EPCs, etc. 2.3%
Foreign Embassies, High Commissions, Consulates, business promotion bodies 1.2%
Malls, Plaza developers & Managers, Potential investors in apparel business 1.7%
Non apparel industry and misc. 5.0%

FNL : Images Fashion N Life

Within two years FNL has emerged as the most favourite fashion guide for the Indian shoppers . FNL holds great promise for fashion & consumer brands and retailers to reach over half a million most frequent brand conscious shoppers of India. The distribution mechanism of FNL is unique. In addition to CNA vendors across the country FNL Associates in Distribution include leading chains like Barista, Lifestyle, Westside, Shoppers stop, Globus, Piramyd, Pantaloon and Ebony etc. Every copy finds a new customer. All shoppers on becoming privilege members of any of the above mentioned chains receive FNL as their first gift.

In the next phase FnL is expected to add leading watch/ jewellery/ cosmetics/ footwear chains besides multiplexes & malls as its associates in distribution to reach newer segments in all parts of the country.