Oscars
of Retail

Eligibility: This category will recognize a new retail concept, store or organisation that has made its mark in the region in the last 5 years. Key considerations include brand visibility, customer affinity, expansion and growth, innovation in concept, and experiential offerings.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Diab Mart
Jawhara Jewellery
2025
Disney Store
The Little Things
2024
Al Jaber Optical

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Eligibility: This category 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.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Jamie's Italian
2025
Homecentre
Scentitude by OBS
2024
Grandiose

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Eligibility: 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. The jury will be looking for evidence of how the shopping experience was improved due to the customer-retention initiative, as well as the level of innovation that makes the initiative stand out.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Grand Stores
2025
Jetour UAE
2024
Aura
Joyalukkas

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Eligibility: This category celebrates an exceptional journey 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.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
LC WAIKIKI
Jetour UAE
2025
Lulu Retail Holding
2024
Brands For less
Panda Retail

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Eligibility: 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.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Costa Coffee UAE
Xpressions
2025
Apparel Group
2024
Apparel Group
West zone Supermarkets

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Eligibility: This category will recognize outstanding new store design concepts across all retail formats, operating in the region. Open to all retail sectors and store sizes that have opened in the last 12 months. Successful entries will demonstrate how the store design is delivering an interesting and exciting shopping journey for the customer and enhancing the retail brand experience.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Plethora Perfume Lounges
Art of Guitar
MAX Fashion
2025
Threads ME
Al Jaber Optical
Les 100 Clies
2024
Threads
Faces
Costa Coffee
Sharjah CO-OP Society
The Little Things

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Eligibility: This award recognises retailers that have successfully transformed their business through innovation and technology. It honours those who have reimagined their business model, leadership, and culture, while integrating in-store tech—online, offline, or both—such as self-checkouts, kiosks, or virtual fitting rooms. Entries must show how these efforts have positively impacted the business and customer experience.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Threads
2025
ADNOC
2024
ADNOC

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Eligibility: This category celebrates retailers who are exploring exciting new technologies like the Metaverse, NFTs, AI, AR/VR, or XR. Whether in physical stores or online, if you’ve taken steps to introduce innovative, tech-driven experiences that enhance retail in the MENA region, will get recognised for this category.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Danube Home
2025
ASICS
2024
Xpressions

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Eligibility: Nominations under this category will demonstrate a solution implemented by a retailer that has actioned 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 jury.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
MMI
FNP
Centrepoint
2025
Grandiose Supermarkets
Centrepoint
2024
Sharaf DG

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Eligibility: This honour will recognise an E-Commerce retailer who has been able to enhance multiple retail channels by integrating digital technology and information, and will celebrate an online retailer who has been able to successful reproduce human, personalised experiences normally offered by in-store shopping -Online.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
The Little Things
Styli
2025
MMI
xpressions
2024
Mumzworld
Aster Pharmacy
Splash

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Eligibility: This Category recognizes retailers who have successfully broadened their market presence. Eligible nominees should demonstrate significant growth through new store openings, geographic expansion, or their strategy of entering new market segments, showcasing innovative strategies and impactful execution in their expansion efforts.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Sharjah Co-op
ASICS
2025
Majid Al Futtaim - Lifestyle
Firehouse Subs
2024
Spinneys
MAX Fashion

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Eligibility: This category will recognize an outstanding homegrown or international restaurant/chain in MENA 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.

Awardees Over the Years
2025
Cold Stone Creamery
2024
Nando's UAE

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Eligibility: This category will recognize an outstanding homegrown or international retail chain in MENA dealing in food and grocery that has shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence.

Awardees Over the Years
2025
ZOOM
2024
Spinneys
ZOOM

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Eligibility: This honour will recognize an outstanding homegrown or international retail chain in MENA dealing in home & housewares that has shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence. *Winner of this category will directly qualify for GIA awards.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Linen Obsession
2025
Danube Home
2024
Crate & Barrel

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Eligibility: This honour will recognize an outstanding homegrown leisure, entertainment & Cinema operating in MENA, which 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.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Glitch
2025
Ground Control
2024
Snow City

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Eligibility: This category will recognize an outstanding homegrown or international retail chain in in MENA 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.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Mihyar
Splash
Paul and Shark
2025
Mihyar
Splash
Tensplace
2024
Nayomi

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Eligibility: This category will recognize an outstanding home-grown or international retail chain in MENA dealing in children’s wear that has shown remarkable success through profitable expansion of its retail operations and has been able to win customer loyalty through diverse product offering and unique services.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Momstore
2025
Momstore
Nayomi Dream
2024
Babyshop

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Eligibility: This category will recognize an outstanding homegrown or international retail chain in MENA dealing in footwear & accessories that has shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Shoemart
2025
ACO
2024
Dune London

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Eligibility: This category will recognize an outstanding homegrown or international retail chain in MENA retailing beauty & personal care products and wellness products, that have shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Ajmal Dubai
2025
Rituals
2024
Rituals

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Eligibility: This category will recognize an outstanding homegrown or international chain in MENA offering pharmacy and healthcare services and has shown remarkable success in the profitable expansion of its retail operations and winning customer confidence.

Awardees Over the Years
2026
Aster Pharmacy
2025
GMG (Supercare, Arabella Pharmacy & Good Health)
2024
Al Nahdi

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Eligibility: This category honours retailers who originated within the digital retail ecosystem with digital-first ethos, but have eventually expanded into the Brick & Mortar ecosystem and have successfully expanded offline, blending digital innovation with in-store experiences. Eligible nominees should demonstrate their digital-first strength alongside omnichannel capabilities, how they are working to juxtapose online and offline customer interactions with ease, enhancing overall retail engagement.

Awardees Over the Years
2025
Linen Obsession
2024
Linen Obsession

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