When IGDS was founded in 1946, the world looked very different. Today, the spirit of collaboration, trust, curiosity, and friendship that this association was founded on, remains our greatest strength as we look toward the future together. That spirit has carried this organisation through eight decades. Through generations of leaders. Through enormous and sometimes disorienting change.  And through many moments when department stores were declared a little too hastily, as it turned out - a thing of the past. 

Yet, here we are. And together, we will continue to shape the future of this industry.