India’s good food guidesThe first-ever Coca-Cola Golden Spoon Awards – IMAGES awards for excellence in the business of food retailing – honoured enterprise, innovation and achievement in the business of food marketing, retailing and services. Led by Food Forum India Chairman and Minister of Food Processing Industries, Subodh Kant Sahai, Industry captains from India and across the world acknowledged the achievements of Indian retailers who operated successfully in a highly competitive, low-margin-driven business over the course of the past year.

Emceed by Anish Trivedi and Rageshwari, the spectacular Awards ceremony – held on the evening of May 6th – involved the presentation of 14 titles to grocery retailers and foodservice operators across store formats and product categories.

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Presented By: Subodh Kant Sahai, Minister of Food Processing Industries, Govt. of IndiaReceived By: Ashish Kapur, MD, Yo! China

Presented By: Sanjiv Gupta, Director– Com-mercial Leadership, Coca-ColaReceived By: Vikram Bakshi, MD, McDonald’s (North & East India)

NOMINEES

HALDIRAM’S• NIRULA’S• KAMATS•

NOMINEES

DOMINOS• PIZZA HUT• KFC• SUBWAY•

MOST ADMIRED F&B RETAILER OF THE YEAR: QSR – INDIAN ORIGIN

MOST ADMIRED F&B RETAILER OF THE YEAR: FOREIGN ORIGIN

With current retail presence in 13 cities, Chinese fast food chain Yo! China undertook a retail space augmentation of 100 percent in the last year to touch nearly 100,000 sq.ft of space. The chain serves 5,00,000 customers a month.

With more than three lakh square feet of retail space and 120-plus outlets, McDonald’s India was rated ‘most preferred’ among consumers and industry experts for this category.

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Presented By: Ravi Naware, CEO, ITC FoodsReceived By: Anil Nair, Territory Manager – Western Region, Café Coffee Day

Presented By: Vanessa Kullmann, Founder and CEO, Balzac Coffee, GermanyReceived By: Sandeer Nadkar, Manager – Business Development with Kunal Jaisawal, GM – Business Development, Speciality Group of Restaurants

NOMINEES

BARISTA• BASKIN ROBBINS• MOCHA• COSTA COFFEE•

NOMINEES

SARAVANA BHAVAN• MOTI MAHAL• SAGAR RATNA•

MOST ADMIRED F&B RETAILER OF THE YEAR: CAFéS & JUICE BARS

MOST ADMIRED F&B RETAILER OF THE YEAR: DINE-IN INDIAN ORIGIN

Cafe Coffee Day’s current presence in over 100 cities via 575 cafés makes it the largest café chain in India. Growing at 20-plus outlets each month, CCD successfully implemented innovative concepts such as ‘garden cafés’, ‘highway cafés’, ‘lounge’ formats as well as 24x7 airport cafes last year. The chain received the highest rating among consumers and industry experts.

Mainland China is the largest chain of fine dining eateries in the country. At its restaurants, Chinese cuisine – from Sichuan to Hunan, Canton to Beijing – is presented in elegant ambiences. Operated by the Rs.470-crore Speciality Group of Restaurants, Mainland China has 19 units in nine Indian cities.

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Presented By: Thomas Capune, Managing Partner, COP Consulting Partners GmbH with Herd Beatrix Capune, Managing Partner, Eatel-ligenceReceived By: Gunender Kapur, President and Chief Executive, Foods Business, RIL with team

Presented By: Bernd Biehl, Deputy Editor in Chief, Lebensmittel Zeitung, GermanyReceived By: Sadashiv Nayak, CEO, Food Bazaar

NOMINEES

SUBHIKSHA• SPENCER’S DAILY• MORE• IN & OUT• HP SPEED MART•

NOMINEES

SPENCER’S SUPER• RELIANCE SUPER• MORE•

MOST ADMIRED F&G RETAILER OF THE YEAR: CONVENIENCE/ EXPRESS FORMATS

MOST ADMIRED F&G RETAILER OF THE YEAR: SUPERMARKETS

From 92 stores in 2006-07, Reliance Fresh jumped to 534 stores in 07-08 fiscal, in the process adding 34 Indian cities to its geographical spread. Reliance Fresh now has outlets at over 47 cities, with a retail strategy that allows it to target neighbour-hoods as well as popular traditional markets.

With 46 standalone outlets (besides 80 in Big Bazaar) in 58 Indian cities and towns, Food Bazaar occupies a combined retail space of four lakh sq.ft., resulting from a rapid pan-India expansion undertaken last year.

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Presented By: Dr. Bernd Hallier, Chairman, EuroShop Exhibitor Council, Germany with Dr. Kristian Moeller, MD, GlobalGAP, GermanyReceived By: Sadashiv Nayak, CEO, Food Bazaar with team

Presented By: Vivek Kumar, MD, IRISReceived By: Andrew Levermore, CEO, HyperCity

NOMINEES

HYPERCITY• VISHAL MEGAMART• SPENCER’S HYPER• RELIANCE MART• MORE MEGA STORE• SPAR•

MOST ADMIRED F&G RETAILER OF THE YEAR: HYPERMARKETS

MOST ADMIRED F&G RETAILER OF THE YEAR: LANDMARK CONCEPT CREATION & EXECUTION

With over four million square feet of retail space currently, and with 86 outlets in 54 cities and towns, Big Bazaar is by far the dominant name in hypermarket retailing in India.

HyperCity provides what can only be described as a truly world-class shopping experience. It offers a wide and contemporary range of innovative products, from Foods, Homeware, Home Entertainment, Hi-Tech, Appliances, Furniture, Sports, to Toys & Clothing. The aesthetics and plannogramming at the 1.2 lakh sq.ft HyperCity, Malad are beyond comparison with any other retail format in India.

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Presented By: Gareth Ackerman, Chairman, Pick ‘n Pay Holdings LtdReceived By: Arindam Chakravarty, Head – Bakery & Prepared Foods, Buying & Merchan-dising, Aditya Birla Retail

Presented By: Ajay Gupta, MD, Capital Foods with L T Pagrani, Chairman, T Choithram & SonsReceived By: Sadashiv Nayak, CEO, Food Bazaar

NOMINEES

SPENCER’S• FOOD BAZAAR• SUBHIKSHA• RELIANCE •

NOMINEES

RELIANCE RETAIL• SUBHIKSHA • ADITYA BIRLA RETAIL• SPENCER’S RETAIL•

MOST ADMIRED F&G RETAILER OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE LABEL

MOST ADMIRED RETAILER OF THE YEAR: DYNAMIC GROWTH IN NETWORK EXPANSION ACROSS FOOD, BEVERAGES & GROCERY

The 430-store strong supermarket and convenience store chain ‘More’ registered 110 per cent growth in its private label contribution last year, making it the retailer with the most profitable private label development programme in India.

Future Group, one of India’s leading business groups, has over 1,000 stores across India and employs over 25,000 people under its fl agship company, Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited. The company’s leading formats include Big Bazaar, a uniquely Indian hypermarket chain, and Food Bazaar, which blends the look, touch and feel of Indian bazaars with features of choice, convenience and quality.

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Presented By: Bala Kamallakharan, ED, International Region, Glitnir Bank with Einar Gústafsson, MD, Bakkavör Group, IcelandReceived By: Vikas Seth, Corporate Executive Chef, Dish Hospitality Pvt Ltd

Presented By: Prof. Brenda Sternquist, Prof. Leslie D Bourquin, and Prof. Deepa Thiagarajan from Michigan State University, USAReceived By: Sadashiv Nayak, CEO, Food Bazaar

NOMINEES

BIG APPLE• HERITAGE FOODS @• NILGIRI’S• 6TEN• FOODWORLD•

NOMINEES

SPENCER’S• VISHAL MEGAMART• SUBHIKSHA• RELIANCE FRESH•

MOST ADMIRED F&G RETAILER OF THE YEAR: REGIONAL PLAYER

MOST ADMIRED F&G RETAILER OF THE YEAR: CONSUMERS’ CHOICE

Wadhawan Holdings’ Spinach Supermarket operates 150 outlets occupying a total of three lakh sq ft of retail space in 12 cities. In the last one year, the chain grew considerably in terms of both geographic coverage and retail space acquired.

Customers at its outlets across India voted Big Bazaar as the “top brand” in the consumer poll conducted across six leading Indian cities. Big Bazaar has 86 outlets across 54 cities and towns.

Presented By: Henrik Anderson, CEO, SSP, Middle East & AsiaReceived By: Gunender Kapur, President and Chief Executive, Foods Business, RIL

Presented By: Gretel Weiss, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, FoodService Europe & Middle EastReceived By: Vikram Bakshi, MD, McDonald’s (North & East India)

Presented By: Amitabh Taneja, Chief Convener, Food Forum IndiaReceived By: Sadashiv Nayak, CEO, Food Bazaar on behalf of Kishore Biyani

NOMINEES

SADHASHIV NAYAK• RAGHU PILLAI• R SUBRAMANIAN• SUMANTRA BANERJEE•

NOMINEES

PARTHA DATTAGUPTA• SANJIV KAPOOR• SUNIL KAPOOR• ANJAN CHATTERJEE• ASHISH KAPUR• NIREN CHAUDHARY•

MOST ADMIRED FOOD PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR: FOOD & GROCERY

MOST ADMIRED FOOD PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR: F&B SERVICES

MOST ADMIRED F&G RETAIL VISIONARY OF THE YEAR: KISHORE BIYANI

Gunender Kapur, as president and chief executive for foods business for Reliance Retail, has directed the company’s remarkable expansion over the past year. In addition to retail growth, he has also played a significant role in Reliance Fresh’s successful private label programme, as well as the launch of Reliance Marts.

Kishore Biyani, CEO of Future Group and the managing director of the group’s flagship company, Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited, has driven his organisation’s aggressive expansion in the food retailing business, be that through far-sighted retail formats or by making first moves into uncharted territories. Today the group employs over 30,000 people, operates around 8 million square feet of retail space, and has over 1,000 stores (including 86 Big Bazaars and 128 Food Bazaars) across India.

Vikram Bakshi has successfully established McDonald’s as the industry leader in the foodservice sector in North & East India. Bakshi’s role in institutional work includes being the chairman of various CII Committees on Tourism and Retailing, and Member of several National and Regional Councils. He has also been the vice-president of the Hotel & Restaurant Association of Northern India.

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