Final Call for entries for International Convenience Retailer Award

July 7, 2009

Calling all leading convenience retailers around the world. The deadline for entries to the first International Convenience Retailer Award is fast approaching.

Retailers have until 24 July 2009 to send in their submissions.

The International Convenience Retailer 2009 award will be presented at the Insight/NACS Future of International Convenience Retailing 2009 event in London, 14-17 September 2009.

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The award will be judged by an international panel of leading convenience retailing executives, jointly chaired by Fiona Briggs, editor of the Insight/NACS online newsletter, Global Convenience Store Focus; and Erin Pressley, editor, NACS magazine.

In addition, readers of Global Convenience Store Focus will have an opportunity to vote for their favourite international convenience retailer online.

Retailers are required to provide a PowerPoint presentation of no more than 12 slides covering six key areas. For further details, including entry criteria, please visit Insight Research online.

Entries will be judged by an international panel of top convenience retailing executives and consultants including:

• Raymond Maingard, founder of the leading retail services organisation in South Africa with more than 30 years’ experience in executive positions with leading South African retail organisations
• Stephanie Rice, a retail consultant specialising in marketing with more than 20 years’ experience of the convenience sector, nine at board level as marketing director of Musgrave-Budgens-Londis
• Simon Chinn, analyst, Verdict Research
• Dan Munford, partner, Insight Research
• Joe Bona, president, CBX
• David Killeen, ceo Australasian Association of Convenience Stores

The international judging panel will produce a shortlist of entries for the overall award. These will be featured in the August and September editions of Global Convenience Store Focus and on the Insight web site.

Readers will be asked to vote for their top International Convenience Retailer by clicking on a relevant link. The retailer with the most votes will win the International Convenience Retailer Award 2009.

Launching the award, Dan Munford, partner at Insight Research, said: “Convenience retailing is one of the fastest growing and most dynamic sectors in the global grocery market.

“Insight and NACS work with and alongside some of the world’s leading convenience retail operators. They are driving the industry’s most innovative store formats and concepts. This new award for International Convenience Retailer 2009 will showcase and recognise their developments and achievements on an international stage.”

Previous winners of international convenience retailer awards, sponsored by Insight and NACS, have included Tesco Express Environment Store and BWG (Spar Ireland) Eurospar format