The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the growth of industry in India, partnering industry and government alike through advisory and consultative processes.

CII is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry led and industry managed organisation, playing a proactive role in India's development process. Founded over 115 years ago, it is India's premier business association, with a direct membership of over 8100 organisations from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs, and an indirect membership of over 90,000 companies from around 400 national and regional sectoral associations.

CII catalyses change by working closely with government on policy issues, enhancing efficiency, competitiveness and expanding business opportunities for industry through a range of specialised services and global linkages.

CII has taken up the agenda of “Business for Livelihood” for the year 2010-11. Businesses are part of civil society and creating livelihoods is the best act of corporate social responsibility. Looking ahead, the focus for 2010-11 would be on the four key Enablers for Sustainable Enterprises: Education, Employability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. While Education and Employability help create a qualified and skilled workforce, Innovation and Entrepreneurship would drive growth and employment generation. The Alliance for US India Business (AUSIB) is a not for profit trade association with a mission to foster economic cooperation between the United States and India, based on shared values, through increased bilateral trade, investment, and corporate partnerships. AUSIB delivers a cost-effective way to help your business or State succeed in India and the US. We partner with member companies and States to create bottom-line results that moves business forward. AUSIB draws its strength from the Indian American community which has been a strong catalyst for the growth of small and medium sized businesses in the U.S., the engine of growth in both economies. The power of the Indian-American community coupled with an unparalleled resource and contact base translates into a bilateral organization that has a proven success track record. We are a goals-driven, not for profit independent trade body, that effectively represents both US and Indian companies. NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION OF INDIA Founded in 1982, NRAI is one of the leading Associations of the Restaurant Industry. The aim of the association is to represent, educate and promote exclusively the Independent Restaurant Owners and Operators in India. The Indo French Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a business organization with 500 members. Our goals are to facilitate networking within the French Indian business community, play a role of economic influence for this community, provide services to companies to develop their business in France or in India. Retailers Association of India (RAI) is the unified voice of retailers in India retailers. RAI works with all the stakeholders towards creating the right environment for the growth of the modern retail industry in India. RAI is the body that encourages, develops, facilitates and supports retailers to become modern and adopt best practices that will delight customers. RAI has a three charter aim of Retail Development, Facilitation and Propagation.

The country's key retailers have been spearheading the growth of RAI.

RAI's Governing Board comprises leaders of the retail revolution in India.

Retailers Association of India (RAI) always strives to bring best practices to the retail industry and it's stakeholders. RAI's efforts center around advocacy and government representations, bringing best practices to the industry, fostering retail learning and training, creating a reservoir of information through retail research, disseminating communication through magazines, newsletter, website, etc. for the benefit of it's members and the industry. Shopping Centres Association of India (SCAI) was formed with the objective to play an anchor's role in the evolution of the Indian shopping centre industry and to consolidate the entity of the individual shopping centre, helping it merge into the larger society as an institution of importance, through

• Developing the distinct function of the shopping centre towards marketing of consumer goods and services
• Building up - and inspiring - a body of focused research into the architecture, aesthetic and design aspects of shopping centres
• Encouraging the development and spread of sophisticated management paradigms and maintenance methods
• Being a knowledge resource centre that collects, analyses and disseminates information on techniques of profitable operation
• Delving into macro economic, legislative and marketing factors with bearing on the shopping centre industry
• Guiding members to come on their own as credible, responsible and forward-thinking stewards in the arena of shopping centre development and management
• Developing a mutually profitable partnership with the retail industry

Vivacity, one of the largest malls, has many superlatives to its credit. A largest FEC with 25,000 sq. ft. area, a megaplex with 14 screens, a food court for 1200 people and a well planned brand mix that ensures that every shopper finds what she is looking for. No wonder Vivacity has won the ‘Best Retail Development India’ and the ‘Highly Commended’ award for its architecture at the recently held ‘Asia Pacific Commercial Property Awards in association with Bloomberg’ Odyssey is a premier leisure store chain stocking a wide range in Books, Entertainment, Toys, Stationery and Gifting to suit every conceivable taste in a warm and relaxed ambience. There are currently 31 stores across 13 cities with a mix of large & express format stores located at malls, high streets, airports, hotels, IT Parks amongst others. Visit www.odyssey.in The Celebration Mall, Udaipur brings to the beautiful city of lakes and palaces the first ever shopping mall. Advance India Projects Limited and Capita Malls Asia have collaborated to bring the first heritage mall of the country that not only heralds the heritage of our country but also incorporates a royal shopping experience for the patrons of Udaipur. A perfect blend of traditional with global, The Celebration Mall Udaipur is a success story waiting to claim its place in the Indian Retail saga. Jones Lang LaSalle, the Indian operations of Jones Lang LaSalle, is the premiere and largest real estate professional services firm in India. With an extensive geographic footprint across ten cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kochi, Chandigarh and Coimbatore) and a staff strength of over 2900, the firm provides investors, developers, local corporates and multinational companies with a comprehensive range of services including research, consultancy, transactions, project and development services, integrated facility management, property and asset management, capital markets, residential, hotels and retail advisory.

For further information, please visit www.jllm.co.in Inorbit Malls today finds itself in the throes of creating Indian retailing history by becoming the only company to announce projects across the country. Inorbit’s professional expertise helps ensure that our consumers and retailers Live a Million Experiences. Magnet Mall, a retail project of the Neptune Group, is Mumbai’s largest shopper-tainment destination spread over 10,56,000 sq.ft. Situated in the central suburbs of Mumbai in Lower Powai, LBS marg, Bhandup, Magnet Mall boasts of four themed atriums, a 10 screen multiplex, Mumbai’s biggest two level food court with a FEC and two levels of dedicated parking making it the ultimate destination to meet, eat, shop and enjoy. Prozone-Liberty is a joint venture between Provogue (India) Limited and Liberty International Plc established to design, develop and manage world-class shopping centres in India.

The shopping centre in Aurangabad will offer an enviable mix of hypermarket, department stores, consumer durables, books, fashion, health & beauty, a large family entertainment centre, fine dining restaurants, food court with seating capacity of more than 700 seats, and a 5 screen multiplex. The centre has some of the best retailers in India with anchors including Star Bazaar, Shoppers Stop, Croma, Westside, Pantaloons, Globus, Reliance Trends, Reliance Timeout, Orama Xing III, Satyam Cineplex, Fashion@Big Bazaar, and other well known retail brands such as United Colors of Benetton, Provogue, Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Levis, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Domino’s, amongst other international and national retailers.

Prozone’s shopping centre in Aurangabad opens on 8th October 2010. Moments is a Personalized experience that recognize your space, your personality and your need to create your own experiences, whether they are about Shopping, eating out, entertainment or simply touching base with yourself. Moment offer an exciting mix of brand and products from across the country and the world, carefully selected to cater to your eclectic, yet discerning tastes, Fashion, accessories, home, children or just a plain quirky. They offer you:

• Moments of Indulgence
• Moments of Hypermart
• Del 15- The Capital's Food Lounge
• Caring Moments
• In good Company

Mall Spec & Facts :

• Total Built-up Area- 750, 000 Sq. ft
• Building Configuration- 2 level Basement & 3 floors of Retail Space
• Gross Leaseable Area- 550,000 Sq ft
• Floors- Ground+2
• Multilevel parking facilities for accommodating over 800 cars
• Huge Frontage of 400ft
• Biggest Hypermarket of Delhi on Level-1
• Anchor Store for Kid/ Apparels/ Electronics on level Ground & Level-1
• Food Lounge- Del 15, Entertainment zone on Level-2
• The Largest mall Development in Delhi City.
• Strategically located on the busiest Metro Line (Noida-Dwarka Line), next to Kirti Nagar Interchange Station.

Ambience Mall, Gurgaon had been conceptualized as a Second Generation Mall and is positioned as “Destination mall”. The Mall is a part of “Ambience Island” comprising of premium residential condominiums, corporate offices, high end shopping mall, quality institutional, leisure and entertainment developments with golf greens. The focus has been to provide a premium platform for lifestyle – be it homes, shopping malls, office space, hospitality, or even entertainment zones. The Ambience Mall, Gurgaon is the presence of a 5 star Deluxe Hotel, service apartment and an International standard shopping area. The Mall with almost 1 km of shopping experience, with a grand lobby & corridors, seven screens multiplexes and landscaped big atriums of 4 storied heights, has a total area of over1.8 sq. ft. The Ambience Mall, is designed on style of International Standard Shopping Malls and is fully devoted to complete indoor family pleasure with an entertainment centre, lifestyle boulevard, restaurants, exclusive food courts area, bar, pub, discotheque, bowling alley, virtual golf area, beer garden and exciting formats opening soon are night club & ice skating rink.

Ambience Mall, Vasant Kunj is a mix of modern, sophisticated, youthful and aspirational brands catering to the young opinion leaders, in the forefront of their generation. The mall is a 1.1 million sq ft development and is for the uber-trendy fashion influencers, a YST generation (young savvy trendy) , which makes sure  “whatever is in is here & whatever is here is in” . It all  makes it a one stop destination with great options for entertainment, food , shopping and malling.

“Future Supply Chain Solutions Limited” (FSCS), which represents the Supply Chain vertical of the USD 2 billion Future Group, is the country’s largest consumption supply chain company catering to domains Fashion, Food, General Merchandise and Home ( Furniture & Electronics). It forms the backbone of all retail initiatives of Future Group across the country, managing more than 30 distinct supply chains for all its retail stores spread across the country. FSCS offers its services to external clients as well and is now the Supply Chain partner for many leading corporates. The lines of business of FSCS are E2E ( End 2 End), Express Transportation, Brand Distribution and International Logistics. IBM is the only IT company in the world and also in India that offers end-to-end solutions to customers from hardware to software, services and consulting, and has been present in India since 1992 (re-entry, after an exit in the 1970s). Since inception, IBM in India has expanded its operations considerably with regional headquarters in Bangalore and offices in 14 cities including regional offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.

Today, the company has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry. IBM has set the agenda for the industry with 'on demand business' - a kind of transformation where an organisation changes the way it operates and reduces costs; serving customers better, reducing risks and improving speed and agility in the marketplace. IBM is already working with customers to transform them into 'on demand' businesses.

For more info please visit: http://www.ibm.com/ibm/in/en/ Polaris Retail offers technology solutions and services to make “modern retail” MORE EFFICIENT for over 300 global retailers. With more than a decade's focus in the retail vertical, Polaris Retail is the market leader in India and Middle East. The solutions comprise i-Retail, multi channel retail solution; i-WMS for warehouse management and i-F&B the web based solution for hospitality segment. vCustomer has a 10+ year history of delivering innovative solutions and services to consumer focused companies globally. vCustomer's expertise lies in the areas of Sales and Marketing Outreach, Customer Support and Technical helpdesk. vCustomer partners with its clients to create custom solutions that cover all communication channels to create an integrated approach to customer outreach. vCustomer uses a consultative approach to implement the most cost effective solution by leveraging its knowledge driven and highly automated Customer Interaction Platform. This scalable cloud based solution combines traditional live voice support with the latest social media enabled web and mobile technology.

vCustomer has been a support partner to companies across multiple retail channels. With a 4000+ global workforce deployed at our managed centers from multiple locations worldwide, we deliver 24x7 services to more than 75 global clients including 20 Fortune 500 brands and more than 30 retailers. By having a varied portfolio of clients from both developed and emerging markets, we have been able to imbibe best practices for driving cross channel synergies, providing a delightful unified customer experience

For more details, please visit our website at www.vcustomerindia.com Launched in 2003, IMAGES Retail took on the task of analysing the emerging industry of organised retail, at a time when industry itself had little data to work on. Since then, the magazine has grown in tandem with the business of retail in India, and its broad-based research now covers the gamut of Indian and international movements in technology, logistics, formats, store design, retail real estate , franchising and human resource, besides reporting on siginificant directions within india’s sunrise industry. The Hindi edition of IMAGES Retail extends the magazine’s readership to tier II and tier III towns in a highly effective manner. Published twice a year, the Middle East edition features reports and features from leading commentators in the region. Shopping Centre News, the newest publication from Images Group, is a knowledge resource centre that collects, analyses and disseminates information on the Indian shopping centre industry in all its aspects of operation, and also builds up a body of focused research into the architecture, aesthetic and design aspects of shopping centres around the world. www.indiaretailing.com is an Online Retail Media portal which targets the Retail Community and is a platform to connect all verticals of Retail. The focus is on Daily Retail News, Editorial Analysis, Interactive Features and Database of Retailers, Realtors, Developers, Investors, Support Systems, Retail Solutions and everything else connected to the Retail World. SnapDeal is an innovative concept launched by Jasper Infotech. The website features some of the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in your city, at an incredible price. The e-commerce portal acts as a wonderful marketing channel to the retail services, to acquire new customers, by reaching out to a large base of prospective audience. And for the end users, it is a great platform to try out new services at a great value. Snapdeal.com is currently operational in 10 major cities across the country. The offering has gained tremendous response over the past 7-8 months. Snapdeal.com is already among the top 500 websites of India. The unique offering has been able to generate an estimated savings of over Rs. 2 crores in this short span, while generating thousands of customers to each new retail service that is featured on the website. display INTERNATIONAL - the only bilingual magazine for the P.O.P. industry, published in Italian and English is the international picture book for the industry with four coloured printing throughout.It is a visualisation of creative solutions for international P.O.P. with reports on trends and tendencies of the trade and industry, detailed reports about marketing exhibitions. Read by more than 100,000 readers worldwide, display INTERNATIONAL presents display products from all over Europe. TextilWirtschaft is the only trade magazine published in Germanspeaking Europe to cover the entire fashion and textile business on a weekly basis. Our readers are clothing retailers, as well as the textile and clothing industry. With more than 174,000 readers* every week TextilWirtschaft has a reach that is unmatched by any other trade journal in the textile and clothing industry.

The editorial concept - a simple sectioning into NEWS, FASHION and BUSINESS and the biggest job market section in the business - is geared exactly to the demands and needs of our readers. "Lebensmittel Zeitung" is Germany's leading publication for the retail industry in Germany and German-speaking Europe. Up-to-date news, analyses, background reporting, in-depth information on marketing strategies, the range and distribution strategies of both German and international retailers and manufacturers makes Lebensmittel Zeitung an indispensable source of information for the industry's top and middle management. RLI is the voice of the global retail and leisure sectors, providing analyses and in-depth articles on the industry’s leading operators.

Working closely with the BCSC, ICSC and all major industry associations, RLI is the preferred Media Partner of every major global retail event.

Retail & Leisure International is also the organiser behind the highly regarded Global RLI Awards - the hottest tickets on the industry calendar.

REIDIN.com is the first online information service that is dedicated to meeting the unique requirements of real estate professionals interested in developing economies.

REIDIN.com provides hard to find proprietary business news, analysis, research, data and intelligence with online tools and services that enable real estate professionals to enhance their understanding of over 30 emerging markets.

The Middle East Council of Shopping Centres is the regional trade body representing the Shopping Centre Industry in the Middle East.

Established in 1994, MECSC has grown over the years and has a strong and closely connected member base of over 800 industry professionals from all over the Middle East representing shopping mall owners, developers, marketing managers, leasing managers and specialists, retailers, consultants, property managers, financiers, accountants, government officials and industry suppliers.

Affiliated to the New York based International Council of Shopping Centers, MECSC provides its members with unparalleled local and international business contacts and support. NEWS – REPORTS – INTERVIEWS – EVENTS – JOBS – NETWORKING

RetailinAsia.com is the first free website dedicated to the Asian retail industry where you can obtain the latest news, reports, advice, events and information on everything that is happening across the Asian retail landscape. Visit RetailinAsia.com to tailor your own retail industry newsletter, read the latest news, professionally network with other retail industry professionals, or even upload your own news or events for free… we’re always after retail news on new store openings, financial results, launches, marketing activities and any other news about your brand or company!

Visit us at www.retailinasia.com Open Media Network is the media venture of RPG Enterprises ,one of India’s largest conglomerates with a turnover of Rs 17,000 crores and strong presence across eight business sectors, from power and retail to IT and entertainment. OPEN magazine, a weekly general Interest and current affairs weekly magazine , is our first foray into media.

Our initial research among scores of readers have found that they all a few things in common, irrespective of age. They are free thinkers, young at heart, possess a definite point of view, and are well informed, and brand value conscious. OPEN, a very well-differentiated weekly magazine, is catering to these readers who were looking for an offering which is refreshing, different and contemporary, presented with an international look and feel.

Some of the salient features of OPEN are:

• OPEN is inviting, liberal, without biases, inclusive and eager to engage.
• It isn’t a weekly wrap-up of news/information which you are already well aware of.
• Brings a fresh perspective to news events.
• Crisp and to the point.
• Covers a wide range of topics, every issue.
• Tries to answer the most important political questions of our times.
• It brings out the human angle to larger events that happen around us.
• Delivers an audience, geographically and demographically focused.
• Feedback from the readers show a very high level of involvement with the product.

Since 2004, IM Entertainment of Images Group has been a boon to the event management industry. We render 24x7 support to our client’s at the most competitive prices without any compromise towards the quality and dedication. With offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata, well lined up with 40 dedicated professionals, we cater for all types of personal and corporate events.

Please visit our website for further information – www.images-ent.com.