Eligibility: Successful entries will demonstrate how the retail brand campaign has met the demands of consistent messaging across different media channels. The award will recognize marketing or advertising campaigns undertaken by retailers employing a highly creative and innovative approach across multiple channels that have resulted in commercial success.
Eligibility: This award will recognise those retailers who have successfully focussed on the transformation of the business model, rethought their leadership styles and corporate culture, embraced partnerships and collaboration, and dynamically changed the business for the better.
Eligibility: This award will recognize a new retail concept, store, and organisation that has made its mark in KSA in the last 5 years. Key considerations include brand visibility, customer affinity, expansion and growth, innovation in concept, and experiential offerings.
Eligibility: This award will recognize an outstanding home-grown or international retail chain in KSA dealing in children’s wear that has shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence.
Eligibility: Mention achievements in areas such as new store design, renovations, fixtures, visual presentation projects and in-store communications. Entries are cited for excellence in design, originality in use of space and materials, and quality of concept execution.
Eligibility: Metaverse, NFT, AI/AR/VR/XR adopters that have gone the extra mile to bring emerging tech-driven innovation to KSA’s retail environment will get recognized for this award.
Eligibility: This award will recognize an outstanding home-grown or international retail chain in KSA dealing in footwear & accessories that has shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence.
This award will recognize an outstanding home-grown or international retail chain in KSA dealing in food and grocery that has shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer.
This award will recognize retailers that are redefining rules of customer experience and engagement, leading the process of the evolving purpose of the store, and are offering extraordinary shopping journeys that are leaving both customers as well as the rest of the ecosystem awestruck. Some other key considerations would include implementation of innovations and emerging tech in-store, store design, convergence of content and commerce, and other brand activations.
This award will recognise eCommerce Company across all categories that have been able to enhance physical channels by integrating digital technology and information, and online retailers who have been successful in reproducing human, personalised experiences normally offered by in-store shopping.
This award will recognize an outstanding home-grown or international chain in KSA offering pharmacy and healthcare services and has shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence.
This category celebrates an exceptional collection and approach put forward by retailers who want to woo customers with value. The category is analysed through the product range, brand proposition, price tag, USP, convenience for the customer, and going that extra mile to offer value to the customer from store to online and much more.
This award will recognize a retailer who has implemented an innovative piece of in-store technology within its retail estate. This could range from a new EPoS system, self-checkout service, kiosk, touchscreen or mobile till point, to virtual fitting room technology or in-store customer ordering. The winning entry will be able to demonstrate how such technology has improved the company’s business
This award will recognize an outstanding home-grown or international retail chain in the KSA dealing in home & housewares that has shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence.
*Winners in this category will qualify for the Global Innovation Awards in Chicago
Nominations under this category will demonstrate a solution implemented by a retailer that has implemented omnichannel strategies in the holistic sense of the term. A solution that helped the retailer to execute a truly omnichannel approach, in terms of seamless customer experience, easy deployment of back-end systems across all operations and the ability to gather and analyse data from all areas of the business will be considered by the judges.
This award will recognize an outstanding home-grown or international retail chain in KSA dealing in fashion and accessories that has successfully worked on fashion merchandise and pushed customers to shop contemporary fashion more frequently. The chain would have also shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence.
This category is open to a retailer who has implemented futuristic initiatives to increase customer loyalty and satisfaction. Focus will be both on the use technology as well as personnel-led services to enhance customer experience, either online, in-store or both. The entries will demonstrate how this initiative has made the shopping experience more convenient, rewarding, and inspiring. Judges will be looking for evidence of how the shopping experience was improved due to the initiative, as well as the level of innovation that makes the initiative stand out.
This award will recognize an outstanding home-grown or international restaurant/chain in KSA that has shown remarkable success in not only profitable expansion of its operations and winning customer confidence but also by developing strategies to stay relevant in the future. Successful entries would have taken new initiatives to transform operations in an impactful manner that has drawn the attention of customers and the industry alike.
Retailers demonstrating examples of excellence on a wide range of ‘conscious’ matters can nominate for their outstanding achievements. Nominees will be judged on ‘going beyond regulatory compliances’ from ethical sourcing and product safety to environmental initiatives as well as workforce care, community support projects and regeneration.
This award will recognize an outstanding home-grown or international retail chain in the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia dealing in beauty & personal care products and wellness products, solutions & services that have shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence.
This award will recognize an outstanding homegrown leisure & entertainment company operating in KSA that has shown remarkable success in the expansion of its popularity, number of outlets, increasing profitability, building loyalty, attracting more customers by means of attractive campaigns and promotions and winning customer confidence by undertaking strict health and safety measures.
PRESENTING THE OSCARS OF RETAIL
KSA’S MOST COVETED AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN RETAIL
INNOVATION AND PIONEERING INITIATIVES
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