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2008

The Reid & Taylor Awards For Retail Excellence 2008

Retail Leadership Award: Kishore Biyani

Retail Best Employer of the Year: Future Group

Retailer of The Year: Home Products and Office Improvements: HomeTown

The Reid & Taylor Awards for Retail Excellence are an important feature of the Asia Retail Congress - Asia’s single most important global platform to promote world-class retail practices - and are aimed at honouring the best, in Asian Retail scenario. India played host to Asia Retail Congress 2008.

2007

Images Retail Awards

Most Admired Retail Face of the Year: Kishore Biyani

Most admired retailer of the year: Large format, multi product store: Big Bazaar

Most admired retailer of the year: Food and Grocery: Food Bazaar

Most admired retailer of the year: Home & office improvement: HomeTown

Most admired Retail Company of the year: Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd.

Images Retail Forum followed strict international benchmarks in deciding the top honours for Images Retail Awards ’07, with IRIS as knowledge partner and global consulting firm AT Kearney as the Process Approver.

National Retail Federation Awards

International Retailer for the Year 2007 – Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd

The National Retail Federation is the world’s largest retail trade association with over 1.4 million members in the US and across the world. Some of the past winners of the award include Metro AG (Germany), Carrefour (France), Zara (Spain), Boticario (Brazil) and Ito Yokado (Japan). The award was presented at the Retail’s Big Show held in January 2007 in New York.

World Retail Congress Awards

Emerging Market Retailer of the Year 2007 – Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd

The inaugural World Retail Congress held in Barcelona, Spain in March 2007 attracted over one thousand retail professionals from over sixty countries. The awards were decided by a multinational Grand Jury. Winners in other categories included Inditex, Mall of Emirates, Marks...