Shoppers Stop bags top honour at ET Retail Awards

The fourth Economic Times (ET) Retail Awards, celebrating the best of global

retail, were recently in Mumbai in partnership with the Retailers Association of India (RAI), saw over 100 leaders from the retail industry getting honoured for being the best and the most innovative.

Ajit Joshi, CEO and MD of Infiniti Retail, won the coveted 'Retail Personality of the Year' award, and Cafe Coffee Day's founder VG Siddhartha was awarded retail's 'Hall of Fame award'. Department store chain Shoppers Stop won the 'Most Trusted Retailer' as well as 'Customer Loyalty Initiative' award.

By organizing this award ceremony, ET attempts to recognise the role of retailers whose innovation and confidence serve as examples for other sectors in the consumer service industry. In the emerging retailer category, Kalyan Jewellers bagged an award for aggressively building pan-India operations despite a slowing market. Infiniti Mall was honoured for its success as a 'Retail Destination' while The Big Door won the 'Retail Launch' of the year award.

The award for Marketing Concept of the year went to Puma and Omni-channel retailer of the year was given to Croma. Thulasi Pharmacies was honoured with Excellence in Operational Excellency while the 'Etailer of the year' award was presented to MakeMyTrip.