Our Associates

Indian Retail School Associations:

The Indian Retail School is supported by the Pearl Academy of Fashion (India's premier fashion institute). The Pearl Academy of Fashion, under the leadership of A.K.G. Nair, is the first institute in India to introduce fashion retail specific programmes in association with LDT Nagold, Germany, the largest and most prestigious retail management institute in Europe. The Pearl Academy of Fashion has also been associated with Nottingham Trent University, UK, for fashion, textile and design related programmes and International College of Professional Photography (ICCP), Australia, for photography related programmes

The academy has not only attained national and international repute for its pre-eminent status as an industry oriented, state-of-the-art training center but it is the first fashion institute in India to be certified under ISO-9001:2000.

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.

The European Retail Academy (ERA) acts as a virtual platform and as an inititor of workshops / seminars / conferences to bring more transparency about retail - research and retail - education at universities or universities of applied sciences. ERA promotes the international transfer of know - how between business on the one side and universities at the other side.