THE COMPANY

WGSN is the leading global service providing online research, trend analysis and news to the fashion, design and style industries.

Launched in early 1998 by founders Julian and Marc Worth, WGSN is sweeping the style industry, being viewed as the most dynamic and successful service to emerge online.

WGSN's scope is global. Its 200-strong team of creative and editorial staff travels extensively on behalf of subscribers and works with a network of experienced writers, photographers, researchers, analysts and trendspotters in cities around the world, tracking the latest stores, designers, brands, trends and business innovations.

Major international companies subscribe annually to WGSN, giving them access to all the latest international style intelligence. The service is also used by many other related industries requiring research, analysis and news, combined with extensive intelligence on emerging style trends.

WGSN is based in London and at offices in New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Los Angeles, Melbourne and Tokyo.

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London, October 9, 2008. WGSN, the global leader in style trend analysis will be celebrating its tenth anniversary tomorrow. To mark 10 years as the authoritative source of creative intelligence, WGSN has designed a special website to showcase their exceptional work over the past decade. The site can be found at www.wgsn.com/10

The anniversary website is a mini version of the WGSN service, open to everyone, with specially created analysis such as the 10 most influential retailers, 10 students we spotted first, 10 trends that didn’t make it and 10 business visionaries.

WGSN launched the world’s first online trend forecasting service in 1998 and has built a global team of 200 experts, who deliver information, analysis and inspiration to the apparel, style, design and retail industries. It offers unrivalled breadth and depth of coverage, with industry experts with years of experience in their specialist areas including youth, catwalks, sportswear and interiors. The Think Tank reports provide unrivalled analysis of the business and economics of the industry.

With 36,000 users in 71 countries, most of the world’s leading companies in the design, retail and technology sectors, innovators in art and design and manufacturers rely on the WGSN service as their authoritative source of research, information and inspiration.

Neil Bradford, CEO says “Our 10th Anniversary site showcases the incredible range of trends that WGSN has analysed and forecast in our history. The first ten years of WGSN has seen a small start-up grow into a world leader and change the shape of fashion forecasting via www.wgsn.com.  We’re planning the next decade of even greater innovation to help our clients take full advantage of key style trends that shape consumers lives – what we call creative intelligence.”

For further information please contact:

Greenfields Communications

Lucy Green, PR Consultant (English)
Tel : +44 (0)7817 698366       lgreen@greenfieldscommunications.com

Nina May, PR-Beraterin (English, Deutsch)
Tel: +44 (0)7971 430242         nmay@greenfieldscommunications.com

Géraldine Gitel, PR Consultant (English, Française)
Tel : + 44 (0)791 7885380     ggitel@greenfieldscommunications.com

About WGSN – The global leader in style trend analysis
WGSN (Worth Global Style Network) is an online subscription service that delivers information, analysis and inspiration to the apparel, style, design and retail industries. WGSN’s forward-looking trend analysis, real-time intelligence updated every hour and 10 year archive of reports and images provide information and inspiration for industries across the world. Our global team of 200 experts design, analyse, photograph and write about style, sourcing, distribution, consumer insight and the business of fashion. www.wgsn.com

Clients include Adidas, BBC, Burberry, Bulgari, Coca Cola, Diesel, Dolce & Gabbana, Galeries Lafayette, Gap, General Motors, Ford, Harrods, H&M, L’Oreal, Leo Burnett, LG Electronics, Marks & Spencer, Puma, Sainsbury’s, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Wal Mart, Zara.