Retail & Development Business Awards - 2019 Shopping mall City Mall (Zaporizhzhia) has won the nomination “The best average shopping mall in the cities with a population up to 1 million inhabitants” in the III solemn ceremony of awarding the best retail and retail real estate companies Retail & Development BusinessAwards-2019, which has been organized and held by the Association of Retailers of Ukraine on September 20, 2019. “Sun Gallery” shopping mall (Kryvyi Rih) was the second in the nomination “The best average shopping mall in the cities with a population up to 1 million people”. Vardui Batrakova, director of City Mall, considers the award to be the result of the team work, “I congratulate my colleagues, the entire Arricano team, which knows how to keep the bar high. Our team thanks our visitors, who choose City Mall day after day and our partners with whom we move towards achieving high goals and together transfer the shopping mall into the attraction center for citizens and visitors of the city.” The winners were determined by summing up the results of two types of voting – the closed one - from the Expert Council, and the Open voting of market participants. During the III annual contest Retail & Development Business Awards, in addition to the best shopping malls, the best retail and development companies were awarded for their contribution to the development of retail real estate in 2018/19. The industry leaders were determined in 30 nominations, 15 of which were the retailers, 7 – the representatives of e- commerce and 8 – the developers. “Persons of the Year” were especially distinguished - in retail, in development and in e-commerce. Andrii Zhuk, Head of the Board of the Association of Retailers of Ukraine, noted that more than 300 guests, owners and top managers of companies, representatives of retail, development, investors, brokers, consultants and B2B segment companies attended the ceremony.
The Arricano team was represented by acting CEO Anna Chubotina, Deputy Director of the Department of Retail Space Natalia Denysiv, Director of Prospekt and RayON shopping malls Inna Sotnikova, Marketing Director Natalia Dmytrenko and communication manager Arricano Olena Obukhivska.
Regularly attending the events of the Association of Retailers of Ukraine, the representatives of the company point to a favorable industry networking, developing atmosphere and an opportunity to enjoy the success of partners-retailers. The representatives of the company considers industry ratings and awards to be the brightest markers of the dynamics of the development of retail and development markets in Ukraine.
Among the guests of the Retail & Development Business Awards-2019 there were delegates from Dragon Capital, Budhouse Group, USUPSO, AGROMAT, SMYK, H&M, Auchan, Decathlon, Multiplex, NOVUS, Varus, LC Waikiki, Watsons, ARGO, Kasta, Zolotyi Vik (Golden Age), Ukrzoloto, Epicenter, Leroy Merlin, JYSK, Allo, Citrus, Comfy, Foxtrot, Eldorado, Cosmo, Antoshka, Zarina, VOVK, Luxoptics, Salateira, Yves Rocher, MustHave, Ocean Plaza, Dream Town, Respublika, Retroville, Lavina Mall, IFC Gulliver, GorodokGallery and other companies.