INDIA FOOD FORUM Awardees 2023
Q MART CONVENIO SATTVA KNOWLEDGE CITY, TELANGANA
FOR DEBUT
Received by: Sravankumar Reddy, General Manager, Q Mart
NATIONAL MART WELLINGTON ROAD, TELANGANA
FOR FLAGSHIP STORE LAUNCH
Received by: Ravi Kumar, Operation Manager, National Mart
NATURE’S BASKET DEFENCE COLONY, NEW DELHI
FOR NEW STORE LAUNCH
Received by: Sachin Agarwal, COO, Nature’s Basket
FRESH SIGNATURE
Received by:Avinash Tripathi, VP - Concept Head, Reliance Premium Grocery and the Premium Grocery team from Reliance Retail
NATURE’S BASKET #TASTETHEWORLD
Received by: Lily Vincent, Category Head and Sachin Agarwal,
COO, Nature’s Basket
HONEYMAN FOR UNIQUE FORMAT
Received by: Shahzada Singh Kapoor, Co-founder; Sunil Chablani,
CEO, Honeyman
LULU HYPERMARKET FOR CSR INITIATIVES
Received by:Noman Aziz Khan, GM - Retail, Lulu Hypermarket Lucknow
TRULY DESI FOR GREEN INITIATIVES
Received by: Rupali Kakade and Mohit Rathod, Co-founders, Truly Desi
FRESHPIK JIO WORLD DRIVE, MUMBAI
Received by:Avinash Tripathi, VP- Concept Head, Reliance Premium Grocery and Team, Reliance Retail
NUTS ‘N’ SPICES
Received by: Sunil Sanklecha, Founder & Managing Partner,
Nuts n Spices
MAGSON
Received by: Chintan Patel, Purchase Director and Mitul Patel, GM-Purchase, MagSon Retail & Distribution
THE NEW SHOP
Received by: Bandana Shandilya, Business Partner,
The New Shop
MRINAL KUMAR
More Retail - For Dairy
Presented by:Aurbind Pal Singh Lall, Director C&CL, Coca Cola India
PRASOON BHARADWAJ
Reliance Retail - For Staples
Presented by:Aurbind Pal Singh Lall, Director C&CL, Coca Cola India
SURESH KOLAMA
Nature’s Basket - For Fresh Foods
Presented by:Aurbind Pal Singh Lall, Director C&CL, Coca Cola India
TANAYA MEHTA
Nature’s Basket- For International Foods
Presented by:Aurbind Pal Singh Lall, Director C&CL, Coca Cola India
ZUBIN NOWROJEE
Reliance Retail - Processed Foods & Savouries
Presented by:Aurbind Pal Singh Lall, Director C&CL, Coca Cola India
HEMANT MECWAN
Reliance Retail - For Beverages & Confectionery
Presented by:Aurbind Pal Singh Lall, Director C&CL, Coca Cola India
NATURE’S BASKET
Received by: Sachin Agarwal, COO; Tanaya Mehta, Category Manager - International Foods; Suresh Kolama, Category Manager - Fruits and Vegetables; Lily Vincent, Category Head, Nature’s Basket
RATNADEEP
Received by: Koti Reddy, Category Head, Ratnadeep
LE MARCHE
Received by:Neelkamal Tiwari, General Manager and Category Buying Head; Narender Hinwar, Finance Head, Le Marche
AARAMBAGH
Received by: Mithun Das on behalf of Aarambagh
SAHAKARI BHANDAR
Received by: Satish Jagdale, Staple Category Head and Sunny Vohra, Head of Marketing, Reliance Retail
FRESH SIGNATURE
Received by:Avinash Tripathi, VP - Concept Head, Reliance Premium Grocery and the Premium Grocery team from Reliance Retail
SMART BAZAAR
Received by: Partho Sharma, Business Head Foods; Hemant Mecwan, Business Head Beverages; Prasoon Bhardwaj, Business Head Staples, Reliance Retail
SPENCER’S
Received by: Saurabh Bansal, CMO, Spencer’s
CINÉPOLIS
Received by: Lakshay Nanda, Manager -F&B, Strategic Initiatives, Cinépolis
DAAWAT & SMART BAZAAR
Received by: Ganapathy Subramaniam, Marketing Head; Swarup Sanyal, Head- Modern Trade; and team Daawat; Sanjay Pandey, Category Head; Prasoon Bhardwaj, Business Head- Staples, Reliance Retail
NABATI & MORE
Received by: Rahul Khandelwal, Country Manager, Nabati; Naleem Thomray, Category Head, More Retail
DABUR HOMMADE & SMART POINT
Received by: Vū aya Kumar, National Key Account Manager, Dabur and Team Dabur; Partho Sharma, Category Business Head-Foods, Zubin Nowrojee, Category Head-Processed Foods and Team from Reliance
WOMEN’S HORLICKS & APOLLO PHARMACY
Received by:Ankit Sharma, KAM, HUL, and Venkata Rakesh Kolli, Category Head, Apollo Pharmacy
GENTEEL & MORE RETAIL
Received by: Krishan Khatwani, Head- Organised Trade and Team Genteel; Keshav Dutta, Category Manager and Team More Retail
AASHIRVAAD & JIO MART
Received by: Siddhant Banthia, Brand Manager, Raghavan KV, General Manager-Value Added Staples, Aashirvad, Balendu Chowdhary, Business Head-Dairy and Bakery, Reliance Retail
SPICE ICON OF THE YEAR
Received by:Adesh Kumar, National Category Head- Spices, Reliance Retail
CUSTOMER SERVICE EXCELLENCE
Received by: Raja M, National Category Head-Branded Staple, Big Basket
TRADE EXCELLENCE AWARD
Received by: Gunjot Singh Kochar, Associate Director-Grocery B2C, Flipkart
B2B EXCELLENCE
Received by: Rajeev Tripathi, National Category Head - Spices, Metro
EMERGING BUSINESS EXCELLENCE
Received by: Saurabh Maheshwari, Senior Vice President, Zepto
CATEGORY DRESSING EXCELLENCE AWARD
Received by: Adesh Kumar, National Category Head- Spices, Reliance Retail
OTIF EXCELLENCE
Received by: Amit Gautam, National Category Head-Spices, Vishal Mega Mart
MODERN TRADE PARTNERSHIP
Received by: Received by: Khathing Luiram, Dy General Manager, Buying & Merchandising, and Saurabh Bansal, Chief Merchandising OŨ cer, Spencer’s Retail
QUICK COMMERCE EXCELLENCE
Received by: Anish Shrivastava, Senior Vice President, Blinkit