TOP SHOP® retail excellence awards
The next TOP SHOP® Retail Excellence Awards will be held in 2010
Detail regarding the entry process, award categories and awards evenings will be announced at the NZRA National Conference and Retail Hall of Fame Awards on 2 September 2009 at the SkyCity Convention Centre in Auckland.
If you wish to register your interest in participating in TOP SHOP® 2010 please email Lorna Hickland (lhickland@retail.org.nz) with your name and contact details and we will keep you informed with all TOP SHOP® developments.
Kind Regards,
The TOP SHOP® Team
Organised by the New Zealand Retailers Association in Auckland, Waikato, Wellington and Christchurch, the TOP SHOP® retail excellence awards are all about promoting excellence in retailing.
TOP SHOP® seeks the best of the best in every major retail category and then recognises and celebrates them as the benchmarks for excellence in retailing.
Retailers wanting to win TOP SHOP® need to be doing all of the basics to an excellent standard, consistently, everyday.
As well as recognition and profile, participating in TOP SHOP® provides stores with an opportunity to:
- Develop team bonding
- Have a refreshed focus upon customers
- Check service standards (via our mystery shopping)
- Benchmark themselves against stores within the same category
- Celebrate their success at a fantastic Awards gala evening
Stores that do well in the TOP SHOP® retail excellence awards:
- Do the basics well
- Have great staff
- Offer fantastic service
- Focus on presentation – the store, windows, signage, merchandise, staff
- Stand out from their competitors
- Are innovative and daring
- Have that ‘something’ that makes you go, WOW!!
The key thing that makes a retailer want to enter the competition is pride in what they do and a desire to win and be recognised.
Why the New Zealand Retailers Association runs TOP SHOP®
For the New Zealand Retailers Association the main objective of running the TOP SHOP® retail excellence awards is to provide a competition that assists in raising the general standard of retailing, or put more simply, "Promoting excellence in retailing".
Objectives of the TOP SHOP® retail excellence awards
- Raise the standards of retailing
- Recognise and reward retailers implementing best practice principles
- Promote, celebrate and publicise those who have achieved retailing excellence
The competition also acknowledges the vital industry partnerships existing between retailers and sponsors.
Please click on the pages on the left hand menu for more information on the 2008® TOP SHOP retail excellence awards.
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