Orion Mall,Inorbit Malls, South City Mall receive multiple honours, Select CityWalk adjudged Most Admired Shopping Centre by retailers—
As the grand finale of Shopping Centres Next 2021, India’s largest shopping centre intelligence event, the IMAGES Shopping Centre Awards (ISCA) 2021 powered by Bestseller India recognised excellence in the country’s retail real estate industry last night. Shopping centres from across India were acknowledged for innovation and business performance in a glittering ceremony attended by India’s leading retail and mall development companies.
Nexus Malls was a dominating presence in the list of the evening’s awardees, leading with seven honours, with the company’s CEO Dalip Sehgal being declared the IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre Professional. The title of IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Green Initiatives was bestowed upon Seawoods Grand Central Mall (Nexus Malls), while
The trophy for IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Transformative Innovation went to Inorbit Malls; IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Tech Implementation was given to Phoenix Marketcity Bangalore and the category of IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre Mobile Application was awarded to Lulu Mall App.
Trophies for 17 award categories were given away, based on votes and scores from an independent jury comprising India’s leading consulting companies, International Property Consultants (IPCs) and BD Heads from retail organisations, who studied 100+ nominations in meticulous detail to arrive at the final results.
List of Awardees: ISCA 2021
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Green Initiatives
Seawoods Grand Central Mall (Nexus Malls)
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Transformative Innovation
Inorbit Malls
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Tech Implementation
Phoenix Marketcity Bangalore
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre Mobile Application
Lulu Mall App
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre Launch
Phoenix Palassio (Non Metro City)
Vegas Mall ( Metro City)
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Turnaround Story
DLF Avenue Saket
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Marketing & Promotions
North India — Elante (Nexus Malls)
West India — Inorbit Mall Malad
South India — Orion Mall @ Brigade Gateway
East India — Quest Mall
- IMAGES Most Admired Mall-Tenant Collaboration Success Story
Phoenix Marketcity Mumbai
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: CSR Initiatives
Inorbit Malls
Viviana Mall
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Differentiation Through Design and Atmospherics
Forum Shantiniketan Mall (Nexus Malls)
Vegas Mall
- IMAGES Most Admired Upcoming Shopping Centre
Tapadia City Centre
Urban Square Udaipur
RETAILERS’ CHOICE AWARDS
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Best Trading Density
North India — Mall of India
South India — Orion Mall @ Brigade Gateway
East India — South City Mall
West India — Ahmedabad One
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: ROI
North India — Elante (Nexus Malls)
South India — Orion Mall @ Brigade Gateway
East India — South City Mall
West India — Viviana Mall
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre
Select CityWalk
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre Group
Nexus Malls
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre Head/ Leasing Head
Ravinder Choudhary, Leasing Head, Vegas Mall
Sharat Belavadi, Centre Head, Inorbit Mall Bangalore & Hyderabad
- IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre Professional
Dalip Sehgal, CEO, Nexus Malls
Nomination process
Companies and brands whose votes matter the most to the shopping centre development industry: tenants (both existing and targeted) and IPCs. Along with India’s biggest IPCs, over 50 of India’s leading national and regional retail brands across fashion & lifestyle, food & grocery, F&B, Beauty & Wellness, Entertainment formed the adjudicators for ISCA 2021.
Nominees for presentation for IMAGES Most Admired Upcoming Shopping Centre made live presentations to an ‘On Ground Jury’ comprising retail real estate experts from leading IPCs and retail organisations across formats and verticals on September 2, 2021 at GRAND HYATT, GOA. Nominees for two categories — IMAGES Most Admired Shopping Centre: Turnaround Story and IMAGES Most Admired Upcoming Shopping Centre: Marketing & Promotions made presentations to the jury via online meetings on August 30, 2021.
Jurors for ISCA 2021 included Abbas Jabalpurwala, CEO, Timezone Entertainment, Abhishek More, Director, XIMI VOGUE, Akash Srivastava, AVP, Business Development, Jubilant FoodWorks, Ankur Kohli, Head – Real Estate & BD (South Asia), Bata, Arif Raza, AVP, Retail Business Development, Vedant Fashions, Bimal Sharma, Head, CBRE South Asia, Deepak Yadav, Chief Development Officer & Real Estate Head, Shoppers Stop, Indranil Banerjee, National BD head, Wow! Momo, Kushal Budhia, BD Head, Barbeque Nation, Maneesh Gaur, Chief BD Officer, PVR, Manik Dhodi, Director Real Estate, adidas Group India, Manish Chandra, BD Head, Skechers Asia, Mayank Gupta, Retail Head, Tupperware, Nandini Kelkar, Director, Customer Research MEASA, Frost & Sullivan, Narender Pratap Singh, Director – BD, Samsonite South Asia, Neerav Sejpal, VP-BD, Spencer’s and Nature’s Basket, Nikhil Jatinder, Head – Business Development, Nike (RJ Corp), Nitin Bansal, Head Business Development, Miniso, Pranav Chaturvedi, BD Head, Fabindia, Preeti Chopra, National Head BD -Retail, Raymond, Rahul Pandita, BD Head & Projects, Paradise Food Court, Rajat Tuli, Partner, Kearney, Rajat Wahi, Partner & Head – Consumer & Retail Sectors, Deloitte Consulting, Rajnikant A Shah, Advisor, Trent Ltd, Sahil Kansal, BD Head, Infiniti Retail, Saloni Nangia, President, Technopak, Shashank Kulkarni, BD Head – Real Estate, McDonalds, Shirish Handa, BD Head, INOX, Shubranshu Pani, Managing Director– Retail Services, JLL, Sumit Chopra, Director Research Analysis, GlobalData, Sumit Ghildiyal, Head Retail Business Development & NSO, (Max) Landmark Group, Sumit S Suneja, Head – Business Development & Franchise, Bestseller India, Suvneet Ahuja, BD Head, Reliance Brands, Tirthankar Banerjee, National Head BD, More Retail, Vishal Razdan, BD Head, Taco Bell, Vivek Shrivastava, BD Head, Benetton India.
About Shopping Centres Next
From IMAGES Group, India’s largest retail intelligence organisation comes the inaugural edition of Shopping Centres Next, the country’s most powerful, differentiated retail real-estate intelligence business event.
Shopping Centres Next 2021 in association with Shopping Centres Association of India (SCAI) and powered by Bestseller India is a powerful platform to not just showcase retail locations across India, but also to gather outstanding insights on new consumer behaviours, mall innovation and collaboration models post the dramatic challenges and new learnings of 2020-21.
