World Retail Congress: IMAGES global retail research volume draws world audience

29 Mar 2007

Barcelona, Spain: Emerging Markets – Opportunities in Cross Border Retailing – a first-ever global retail research volume from IMAGES Multimedia, was released today at the World Retail Congress in Barcelona.

Unveiled in the presence of the cream of branding, marketing and retailing honchos from across the globe, “Emerging Markets – Opportunities in Cross Border Retailing” is a world-class presentation of the retailing opportunities – both existing and unmasked – in each of the BRIC nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China.

This crisp, 180-page research publication includes invaluable data and analyses from Goldman Sachs, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AT Kearney, Li & Fung Research Centre and IMAGES F&R Research on the growth projections, make up and trends in the retail industries in each of the BRIC nations.

The BRIC countries have all made an impressive impact on the global economy in these early years of the twenty-first century, as each country in its own unique way experiences sizeable build-up in economic wealth even while fighting protectionist trade barriers from the developed world. Statistics show that within five years of the formation of the BRIC concept, India and Russia have expanded their economy considerably while China clearly leads the pack with its high GDP growth and understandably the most stable political scenario, as per the findings in the book.

Stock markets around the world have been outdoing themselves over the past several years with floods of foreign capital to help build and grow stock exchanges from relative anonymity into household names. BRIC funds, or mutual funds composed of securities from the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, have been the subject of a lot of talk lately. As a result, the BRIC markets have enjoyed huge increases in economic activity and stock market interest. Investors who were early in putting their money into these countries and their markets have enjoyed handsome rewards