“The Indian retail industry is predicted to grow annually by up to 12 percent and the country’s retailers are gearing up productivity to meet that demand. FDDI students have joined the thousands of visual merchandising professionals within hundreds of fashion retailers and brands who are already using Mockshop’s 3D tools,” says Prasham Kamdar, founder and managing partner of Ptex Solutions. “Ptex Solutions is delighted to partner with FDDI to help shape the future. We’re also aiming to display the best of these 3D stores to the Indian fashion industry by organizing a formal presentation of students’ work to established members of the industry.” To best prepare for visual merchandising careers students are using Mockshop to fully merchandise 3D stores virtually. “Including Mockshop in our curriculum upgraded our course content, created a professionally modern environment for students and helped establish the FDDI as a visual merchandising Center of Excellence. “Visual merchandising is growing as a profession throughout India and worldwide,” says Shashi Bhushan Shukla (IRS), secretary at the FDDI.

“This software has gained popularity and recognition in India and it will be part of our curriculum - students will be trained for this software, which will help them in getting placements.” “The software makes visual communication fast, simple, accessible to everybody and thus, can bring huge benefits to the retail sector,” says Rajeev Lakhara, IRS, managing director, FDDI. The FDDI, originally established by India’s Ministry of Commerce in 1986 and now rated as one of the world’s premier fashion and retail institutions, will incorporate Mockshop into a number of the Institute’s key Diploma courses. VrSoftware, a provider of visual retailing software solutions, announced that India’s Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI) has implemented vrSoftware Mockshop to help create the country’s first visual merchandising centr of excellence.

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