VM+SD Announces Scholarship Fund for Retail Design Student

CINCINNATI, OH – November 7, 2001 – During the first annual VM+SD International Retail Design Conference October 28–31, 2001, the magazine formally announced its intentions to award a $2000 scholarship to an institution of higher education. The scholarship will be awarded for the first time at the 2002 Conference being held September 18 – 21 in Pasadena, CA. Each year, the scholarship money will go to a student who is enrolled in a retail design program in the local area of that year's conference.

VM+SD is committed to ensuring the future of retail design,” states associate publisher Carole Winters. “We have one simple mission and that is to educate and inform the retail design community – through the magazine, our vmsd.com web site, the VM+SD International Retail Design Conference, and now through this scholarship. We look forward to presenting this scholarship next year to one of retail design's most talented and promising students.”

VM+SD magazine, the leading retail design publication, is published monthly by ST Media Group International Inc. ST Media Group International serves the visual communications markets with its five publications, branded web sites, custom book division and events. VM+SD targets retail display and store interior design professionals, and covers the many facets of store and restaurant design, such as merchandising, window display, surfacing, fixturing, mannequins/forms and props/decoratives. VM+SD and ST Media Group International are based in Cincinnati, and may be reached at 513.421.2050 or through their web sites, www.vmsd.com and www.stmediagroup.com.

For more information, contact:
Lori Ferdelman, ST Media Group International Inc.
800.925.1110 / 513.421.2050, ext. 338
Fax: 513.421.5144
e-mail: lori.ferdelman@stmediagroup.com