IMM is a 38-year old educational institution, registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 as a non-profit entity. The Institute has been classified as a Charitable Institute under Section 10 (23C) (iv) of the Income Tax Act. It has also been recognised as a Scientific Research Body in Social Sciences and donors are entitled to 125% IT exemption u/s 35(1) (iii) and 50% I.T. exemption u/s 80G . It has developed as a top class business school. It is affiliated to the All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, Government of India & has been offering PG Diploma in Business Management for the last 12 years. IMM, as the National Marketing Body, is affiliated to the Asia Pacific Marketing Federation (APMF) and the World Marketing Association

It is located in the green and tranquil environs of Qutab Institutional Area and it is housed in its own 7-storey building of 40,000 sq.ft. approx. known as the Marketing Tower. It has state-of-the-art equipment and facilities including computer labs, internet room, wireless internet connectivity in the Campus, a well stocked library, A/V equipment, seminar rooms, executive lounge, conference halls, recreation centre, and halls for hosting lunches and dinners as well as a Business Centre. Its division, the Global Development Centre, is situated at Sujan Singh Park (near Ambassador Hotel). IMM is now on the way to developing a top class, most modern, additional campus as well as a separate Executive Education Centre in the NCR of Delhi, Marketing Tower-II.

The Institute also offers specialised services in the fields of Research, Conferences, Executive Development Programmes. Its Research Centre has been conducting feasibility and research studies on behalf of Central, State and Local Self-Governments; public, private and cooperative sectors as well as for international organisations such as WHO, UNICEF, FAO, UNIDO, USAID, ICA, IWS, Peace Corps. It has already served over 100 organisations and successfully completed projects on a range of topics including family planning, women's empowerment, status of civic amenities, and concerning trade and industry.

The Institute is a membership body with members from all sectors and sizes of business organisations and Government Departments in the country. Its members are given attention and facilities like participation in educational programmes, tailor-made training modules, research programmes, conferences and seminars, publications, platform for communication with senior government officials and so on. IMM Centre offers annual and life membership to individuals and organisations to avail of its facilities which are modeled on IIC and IHC.

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The Institute has been bringing out publications on contemporary areas of Marketing & Management and various facets of the Indian economy to help companies do better.

2006 IMM Year Book on “Dream Tourism –Green Tourism” is out latest publication.

To develop as a Round Table comprising of Top Managers (level of Directors, CEOs, General Managers) representing Public, Private, Cooperative Sectors; Senior Government Officials; Diplomats; and Senior Individual Professionals.

Some eminent persons who have addressed/chaired our Top Management Club meetings include :

Hon'ble Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Science & Technology & Ocean Development; Hon'ble Shri Oscar Fernandes, Union Minister for Statistics & Programme Implementation; Mr. Wajahat Habibullah , IAS (Retd), Chief Information Commissioner; H.E. Mr. Dino Debeljuh , Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia ; H.E. Mr. Vyacheslav I. Trubnikov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation; H.E. Sir Michael Arthur KCMG , British High Commissioner; H.E. Ms. Lucie Edwards , High Commissioner of Canada; H.E. Mr. Yasukuni Enoki , Ambassador of Japan; H.E. Mr. Eric F.Ch. Niehe , Ambassador of Netherlands; H.E. Mr. David Danieli, Ambassador of Israel; Dr. Alexander Spachis , Minister-Counsellor (Political Affairs & Coordination), Delegation of the European Commission; Prof. V.S. Ramamurthy, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology; Mr. B.S. Baswan, IAS, Education Secretary, Ministry of H.R.D; Mr. Ajay Prasad , IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation; Mr. Vinod K. Dhall , IAS (Retd), Member, Competition Commission of India; Dr. Parthasarathi Shome , Adviser to the Union Finance Minister; Dr. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai , Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University; Mr. Hriday Narain, Director General (IT Exemptions); Mr. Analjit Singh, Chairman, Max India Ltd.; Mr. D.M. Sawhney, CMD, Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd., Mr. William Pinckney, CEO, Amway India Enterprises & so on.

To bring young managers (below 40 years) together on a single platform for their development & for betterment of society in general. Overall personality development, learning management skills, entrepreneurial development, developing general awareness of management related issues & function as an Alumni of the Institute & also to provide continuing education, as a non-political organisation.

The Institute has been a pioneer in suggesting marketing orientation of the country's industrial policy ; highlighting importance of industrial capacity utilization in the country in a scenario where companies were being penalised for producing more; cost cutting and optimisation; quality improvement ; increasing number of vendors for effective marketing to Government ; farm input-output management leading to introduction of support price which was adopted by the Government of India in its agricultural policies & so on;

The Institute equally represents trade, industry, labour, consumers, professionals and government and has been trying to bring about synergy among them;

The Institute was the first body to start recognising excellence in various areas of marketing and management by way of conferring annual awards . These awards are being conferred on various categories including marketing companies; CEOs; exporters; top diplomats; dealers; SSI units; women entrepreneurs & executives & so on.

The Institute has been the first to recognise the need for emphasising specialised education in areas like Agricultural Marketing, Industrial Marketing, International Marketing, Social Marketing & Services Marketing .

For the past three decades, the Institute has been helping Indian industry and businesses, as a catalyst, for succeeding in providing trained managers and marketers, carrying out research studies, organising conferences & seminars on relevant themes, bringing out useful publications & directories, encouraging excellence in various fields, providing a platform for all concerned to interact, deliberate & find solutions to contemporary problems. The Institute is all set to further add value in various areas to help the country achieve its long overdue status of an economic super power.