Instore Asia Pragati Maidan 2016
Pragati Maidan
Get DirectionsPragati Maidan, Mathura Road, Railway Colony, New Delhi, Delhi, New Delhi
Overview
LARGEST PLATFORM FOR
- the Retail Design and Solution Provider community
- businesses, networking & professional training.
- meeting with Indian and international providers
- meeting with top level senior decision-makers
- exploring new ides to reboot and reimagine for new age retailing
EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES TO REBOOT AND REIMAGINE FOR NEW AGE RETAILING
Over 3,500 Sqm of net exhibition space with over 100 exhibitors consisting of :
- Architects and Retail design Firms
- Visual Merchandisers
- In-Store Branding Specialists
- POP Manufacturers
- Store Fixture Manufacturers
- Material Manufacturers
- Lighting Solution Providers
- Suppliers of Advanced Printing
- Graphics Equipment and Solutions
- POP solution providers
Over 5,000 visitors comprised from:
- Retail design consultants
- Apparel brands
- Retail solution providers
- FMCG brands
- Retailers
Largest platform for meeting, interacting and exploring business partnerships and collaborations .
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Pragati Maidan
Get DirectionsPragati Maidan, Mathura Road, Railway Colony, New Delhi, Delhi, New Delhi
Convention
Convention – August 4 & 5th, 2016
INSPIRATIONS AND INFORMATION FOR NEW AGE RETAILING AND PROFITABLE BUSINESSES
Over 30 Indian and international speakers Over 350 participants Wide range of topics on…
- Retail Research
- Retail Design
- Visual Merchandising
- Design Innovations
- Shopper Marketing
- Design inspirations
- Retail Development Commerce
- Business Excellence
Talks, discussions , sharing, specialty workshops, spot contests, fun with the in-store asia community and more…
Speakers 2016
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"New Role of the Store in new age retailing" Keynote Speaker Bijou Kurien Member Strategy Board - L Capital Asia, Chairman Managing Committee In-Store Asia 2016 Bijou has been associated with marquee brands in the fast moving consumer products, consumer durables and retail industry in India for over 32 years. His association with the development of Indian retail is over 25 years. After earning his spurs at Hindustan Unilever Ltd., he joined the founding team at Titan Industries, where he helped build powerful brands in the Watch and Jewellery.. |
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"Building a perfect shopping experience for new age expectations” Keynote Speaker Venu Nair Managing Director-Marks & Spencer Reliance India Venu Nair is Managing Director for Marks & Spencer Reliance India, responsible for M&S’s 56 stores and online presence in India. His role includes bringing the best of M&S to customers across India offering high quality, stylish and innovative clothing with high levels of customer service... |
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“Against all odds - Trend busting Shopper Marketing Strategies” Michelle Adams Founder, Marketing Brainology Michelle Adams is founder of Marketing Brainology, a consulting practice focused on translating consumer and shopper insights to marketing and corporate America. She speaks globally on in-store decision-making, merchandising best practices, and shopper marketing & key shopper trends. She helps unlock the mystery of human emotion & how it impacts brands & retailers... |
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“How Shoppers Make Decisions: The Truth About Their Behaviors” Christopher Brace Founder and CEO, Syntegrate Consulting Christopher founded Shopper Intelligence in 2006 based on his 360-degree view of the challenges today’s marketers face. He has held management positions in Shopper Marketing, Brand Management, traditional advertising and promotions on both the client and agency sides... |
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‘The New Age India Retail - Executive Health Check Report’ Kumar Rajagopalan Chief Executive Officer, Retailers Association of India Kumar Rajagopalan is the CEO of Retailers Association of India (RAI). In his current role at RAI, Kumar focuses on creating a positive business environment for modern retail in India. Over the recent years, Kumar has represented RAI as the voice for retailing in India and works with all levels of... |
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"The changing experience expectations of the New Age Indian consumer" Sreyoshi Maitra Director - shopper Practise, Nielsen, India 14 years of experience across FMCG and Media (across agency and the client organisation). Partnered clients across research domains – innovation, brand health and equity, communication effectiveness, consumer dynamics, shopper, retail measurement. Almost 6 years in Nielsen, led both Consumer Research and Trade research teams before leading premier accounts as... |
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"Design Thinking and its impact on retail brand valuation and profitability” Dominic Twyford Client Services Director, FITCH South Asia Dominic began his career working in the advertising industry, working with McCann Erickson in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Looking for a more strategic and long-term approach to brand building, he then moved to the branding and the design space. Dominic’s current role at FITCH involves understanding the commercial and brand challenges of clients businesses, and ensuring... |
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"Global New Age Trends in Consumers' Retail Experience Expectations and Retail Environments" Michale Gerling CEO, EHI Retail Institute, Germany Michael Gerling comes with over 33 years of rich diverse experience as an expert in the international retail and wholesale business having built commendable repertoire and personal network in that domain. Michael shares his views on the industry through... |
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“The Art of delivering Lifestyle Shopping UX in new age phy-gital Environments” James Breaks Associate Director - Design, rpa:group, London I have dedicated nearly two decades working with our management team in developing rpa:group into the successful, creative and innovative consultancy it is today. My personal skills have grown exponentially with the company thanks to a creative architectural education... |
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"Evolution in role of the New Age Retail Experience Designer”
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Moderator Surender Gnanaolivu Sr Consultant Retail Experience & Consulting Editor VM&RD Surender has over decades of experience in the Indian Retail Industry in Brand Activation, Strategic Retail Planning, Retail Marketing, Store Planning, Store Design, Visual Merchandising, and Store Roll-Out management, Writing, Training and Teaching... |
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Sudhir Soundalgekar Director Projects, Raymonds An Architect from Academy of Architecture, Mumbai and MBA in Project Management having 29 years of experience in Industry, with Commercial, Departmental Stores, Residential, Pharmaceutical Factory Projects in his portfolio. Currently working for a reputed brand Raymond... |
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Sasikumar Ramaswamy Sr VP Store Design and Projects, Landmark Group Sasikumar Ramaswami, Heading Group-Projects & Store Design for Landmark Group, India a gold medalist & rank holder in Architecture-B.Arch and Masters in Business Administration-MBA. 1. What is your current designation and responsibilities you manage? " Senior Vice President- Group- Store Design & Projects"... |
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Vishal Kapoor Chief Design Officer - Future Group India Ltd. Vishal Kapoor is the Chief Design Officer for Future Group, where he leads the organizational design and build portfolio across multiple business formats .He passionately pursues new ways in which design thinking and management can enhance the strategic, functional and operational domains of the organizational working. In addition he also leads the fashion business as a Concept... |
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"Breaking the myths of sustainbility in creating Retail Environments”. Smita Gupta Director of India Operations, Gensler Smita offers a highly valued combination of experience in strategic planning, workplace design and building architecture. By working closely with clients and designers to integrate project goals through the design and documentation process, Smita has developed a holistic approach... |
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Building an Omni-Channel Brand" - The Lenskart story Peyush Bansal Founder & CEO- Lenskart Peyush Bansal is the CEO and Founder at Lenskart. A veteran in the e-commerce space with close to nine years of work experience, Peyush founded Lenskart in the year 2010. Lenskart envisions to solve India’s eye care problem and redefine the complex eyewear category with a hybrid model... |
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“Decoding new age shoppers in growing Tier 2 and 3 Cities in India” Sankalp Potbhare Head: Sales Development & Strategy, Reckitt Benckiser India Sankalp has a working experience of over 12 years across multiple categories and organizations like Reckitt Benckiser, PepsiCo and Tata’s. Currently working as Head of Sales Development and GTM Strategy at Reckitt Benckiser, he has worked across roles ranging from marketing where he... |
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“Challenges of managing the delivery of Shopper Marketing Communication to multiple stores in regions and languages" | ||
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Moderator Rahul Saigal Group Chief Operating Officer of the Geometry Global Encompass Network Rahul Saigal is the Group Chief Operating Officer of the Geometry Global Encompass Network. In addition to his role as COO, Rahul also leads shopper marketing at GG; this is a practice he set up for the firm in 2008. Rahul has spent the last 15 years specialising in non-advertising... |
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Alok Agarwal Head - Marketing Excellence, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd Expertise in building Brand Differentiation & P&Ls by developing new products, creating brand campaigns using off-line & online media. As a category head in Asia Pacific, had a rich experience in consumer research, packaging development, communication development. Sara lee Asia-Pacific (Regional Mktg Manager) ... |
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Prasenjit Ray Founder & CEO, In-store Consulting Services Prasenjit is perhaps the most prolific shopper researcher in the country who has personally worked in more than 300 shopper research projects, across a plethora of FMCG categories and brands in India and the APAC region. He founded Instore Consulting, a specialized.... |
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“EuroShop 2017: Seven Dimensions of Success. How the No1 Retail Trade Fair reinvents itself and charts out New Courses for the Future.” Michael Degen Executive Director, Messe Düsseldorf Michael Degen, born in 1963, completed his business administration studies with an MBA. He began his career in the trade show business in 1992 at Messe Berlin, where he worked in various functions in Marketing until 1994. Starting in 1994, he was responsible for international trade fairs as.... |
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V M Challenge - A Window Display Competition at Expo Floor Anchor Balaji Natarajan Creative head - Visual Merchandising, Graphic and Store design, Titan company Ltd. Balaji Natarajan is presently the Creative head of Visual Merchandising, Graphic and Store design for the jewellery division of Titan company ltd. This includes Tanishq , Goldplus, Mia and Zoya brands. He has been associated with the Tanishq Brand for the last 15 years while the other... |
Awards
RECOGNITION AND CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE IN RETAIL DESIGN & VISUAL MERCHANDISING
400+ Entries competing for 23 Categories and 67 Awards from top retail design firms, retailers, brands, service provider and manufacturers from the Indian retail design and visual merchandising community . International Jury to pick out the winners. The categories covers 13 Retail Formats, 5 Visual Merchandising Categories and 5 Fit-out and Tech categories
Retail formats and consumer behaviours have seen significant changes in the past year and to be in step with that VM&RD Awards categories have been relooked at and the notable additions are Best Window Display (Products & Collections) , Best Window Display (Festivals and EOSS), Best VM installation, Best Retail Graphics and In-store Tech & Digital Experience.
The contest is open for Individual Designers, design firms, Brands & Retailers, Service Providers and Manufacturers in the Retail Domain.
Jury 2016
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Angela Kreutz CEO Angela Kreutz is CEO at the office for architecture and interior design Blocher Blocher India, Delhi, since the foundation in 2008...
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Steven Dempsey Concept Manager, VM Spanning 20 years within two of the UK's largest retail players, Steven's career in Visual Merchandising has allowed him to gain a deep...
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Shanoo Bhatia Director An alumnus of NID, Ahmedabad, Shanoo has a rich and varied experience in design and...
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Andy Turnbull Group Creative Principal Andy is the Creative Principal at New Look, a UK fast-fashion brand with over 800 stores across 23 countries...
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Ashish Deshpande Founder Director & Principal Designer Ashish is a graduate in Industrial Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad, India.
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Sudhir Soundalgekar Director Projects Sudhir Soundalgekar is an Architect from Academy of Architecture, Mumbai and an MBA graduate. He is working...
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Michael Foley Founder Michael Foley first made his mark with his stunning designs that gave a contemporary makeover to Titan Industries. He studied design at...
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Ravish Mehra Principal Architect Ravish Mehra is an architect with a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture (B. Arch.) from School of planning and Architecture (SPA) New Delhi...
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Alison Carr Senior Associate and design leader With over twenty-four years of experience creating award winning retail and hospitality projects, Alison Carr has developed a...
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Amit Aurora Partner Amit Aurora along with Rahul Bansal, both architecture graduates of ’93 from SPA, New Delhi, founded DCA Architects in 1996.
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Ken Nisch Chairman Since 1971, JGA has grown to become a global leader in brand strategy and retail design. JGA has built its reputation by assisting retailers...
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Simon Ong Group Managing Director & Co-founder Simon Ong is the Group Managing Director and co-founder of Kingsmen, a leading...
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Keith Ware Group Development Director Keith joined Dalziel & Pow eighteen years ago, bringing with him the experience of working in retail...
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Giorgio Borruso Founder Giorgio Borruso Design (GBD) is an award-winning multi-disciplinary design firm creating innovative works ranging from architecture...
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Robert Vaughan Design Director Rob first joined FITCH London in 1996 and has returned to FITCH in order to Join our Mumbai team as Design Director of Brand Environments...
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Ambrish Arora CEO & Design Principal In the course of his working career of 30 years, Ambrish trained and worked as a boat designer before moving to Spatial Design...
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Claire England Head-VM Over twenty years experience in visual merchandising within various retail channels, fourteen of those years specialising in premium...
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Sasikumar Ramaswamy Sr VP Store Design and Projects, Landmark Group Sasikumar Ramaswami, Heading Group-Projects & Store Design for Landmark Group, India a gold medalist & rank holder in....
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Tim Radley MD Tim is an international retail specialist and Founder of UK-based VM-unleashed Ltd, a multi-channel retail specialist company. He works...
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Nagesh.C VP - Design & VM, Pantaloons, Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Ltd. science graduate, an advertising post graduate turned design professional, he is on a long enduring career with Aditya Birla Group, joined the...
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Balaji Natarajan Creative head - Visual Merchandising, Graphic and Store design Balaji Natarajan is presently the Creative head of Visual Merchandising, Graphic and...
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Vishal Kapoor Chief Design Officer, Future Group Vishal Kapoor is the Chief Design Officer for Future Group, where he leads the organizational design and build portfolio across multiple business formats...
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VM Challenge
THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS ONE-OF-A-KIND WINDOW DISPLAY CONTEST FOR THE VM COMMUNITY
36 Top Visual Merchandisers from 25+ top brands and companies compete.
On the spot brief and 60 minutes to complete the window display. Team work, lighting fast ideation and skilful execution are the need of the hour. Not to miss the twist and turns in the task as the contest gets underway! Requires the skill and courage of the best of the best to survive the pressure and delivery the goods.
Lighting, Props, mannequins, digital equipment and merchandise sponsored by In-store Asia partners.The contest is conducted by experienced industry professionals and winners judged by eminent Indian and International personalities from the retail design and visual merchandising community.
VM Challenge Teams 2016 |
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Deepak Chakravarty adidas |
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Akash Kumar Lifestyle |
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Abhishek Marshal Lewis Future Group |
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