Professional Associations
Association of Sales and Merchandising Companies – www.asmc.co.za
Fuel Retailers Association – www.fuelretailers.co.za
Liquid Fuels wholesalers Association of Southern Africa – www.oilgasafrica.com
National Automobile Dealer Association – www.nada.co.za
National Clothing Retail Federation of South Africa – www.ncrfsa.org
National Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers – www.napm.co.za
Retail Motor Industry Organisation – www.rmi.org.za
South Africa Booksellers association – www.booksellers.com
South African Booksellers Association – www.sabooksellers.com
South African Nursery Association – www.sana.co.za
South African Petroleum Retailers association – www.sapra.co.za
South African Retail Council affiliate of the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa’s – www.cgcsa.co.za
The Banking Association of South Africa – www.banking.org.za
E-Commerce retailers – www.worldretailcongressafrica.com
Consumer Goods Council of South Africa – www.cgcsa.co.za
SOCAP International – http://www.socap.org/
Database of International Retail Federations
National Retail Federation – https://nrf.com/
Florida Retail Federation – http://www.frf.org/
Kentucky Retail Federation – http://www.kyretail.com/
Washington DC Retail Federation – http://www.retailassociation.org/
Virginia Retail Federation – http://virginiaretailfederation.com/
Nebraska Retail Federation – http://www.nebraskaretail.com/
Texas Retail Federation – http://www.txretailers.org/
Fair Trade Federation – http://www.fairtradefederation.org/
National Clothing Federation of South Africa (NCRF) – http://www.ncrfsa.org/
POPAI South Africa: Association of the marketing and retail Industry – http://popai.co.za/
RMI: Retail Motor Industry (South Africa) – http://www.rmi.org.za/
South African retail Council – https://www.cgcsa.co.za/cgia/forums/the-south-african-retail-council
Plastics South Africa – http://www.plasticsinfo.co.za/
Retail Ireland – http://www.retailireland.ie/Sectors/RI/RI.nsf/vPages/Home?OpenDocument
Russian Federation Economy – http://www.oecd.org/russia/
Retail Motor Industry Federation [UK] Divisions: – http://www.rmif.co.uk/
National Franchised Dealers Association
Independent Garage Association
National Association of Body Shops
Motorcycle Retailing Association
Surf Retailers Association [Australia] – http://www.surfretailers.com.au/
New Zealand Retailers Associations – http://www.retail.org.nz/
Handelsverband Deutschland [HDE] – http://www.einzelhandel.de/
The Academy of Business and Retail Management (ABRM) – www.abrmr.com
Retail & Sales Management Portal – http://portals.dmst.aueb.gr/rs/conferences.htm
National Retail Federation – www.nrf.com
British Retail Consortium – www.brc.org.uk
British Independent Retailers Association – www.bira.co.uk
IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) UK’s industry association for e-retail – www.imrg.org
UK Retail Associations and Organisations –http://botw.org.uk/Business/Business_to_Business/Associations_and_Organisations/Retail/
USA list of retail associations – http://www.boogar.com/resources/associations/retail_trade4.htm
American Collegiate Retailing Association – http://acraretail.org/
European Association for Education and Research in Commercial Distribution – https://eaercd.wordpress.com/links/
The European Institute of Retailing and Services Studies [EIRASS] – http://w3.bwk.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/urban_planning/eirass/
Conferences / Sources for retail articles
Archive of ACRA clearing house – http://acraretail.org/content/?page_id=139
ACRA Spring Conference, New York – http://acraretail.org/content/?cat=8
18th International Conference on Research in the Distributive Trades, Rennes, France – http://eaercd-2015.sciencesconf.org/
22nd International Conference [EIRASS] Montreal – http://ama-academics.communityzero.com/elmar?go=6083144&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Retail Portal
Athens University of Economics and Business – http://portals.dmst.aueb.gr/rs/index.html