Nisa Scoops Top Award

11/06/2010

The Nisa Symbol Group is celebrating after being named the Best Symbol Retailer 2010 at him’s! Convenience Tracking Programme (CTP) Awards, held in a Big Top in central London after beating off competition from all the other leading symbol groups in the sector.

The CTP awards are considered by many as the most honorable within the sector as the judges are 27,000 shoppers, staff and managers.

The Nisa Symbol Group has made significant developments over the past 18 months. In December 2008 the group launched its brand new ‘Store of the Future’ fascia which over 200 of the group’s members have now converted to. In 2009 the group appointed Sam Oxley-Powell as the group’s marketing support manager to help drive the ongoing development of the group and visibility of the Nisa symbol stores. It also launched its Mystery Shopper programme in 2010 which enables members to be judged on every aspect of retailing which has helped to raise the standard of the group’s stores.

John Heagney, Group Symbol director, commented, “We are absolutely thrilled at winning this prestigious award. The Symbol Group team has worked extremely hard over the course of the past year and this award is a testament to their work. As these awards are judged by customers, staff and managers stores throughout the country, it has assured us that we are doing the right things for our members. We have a team of excellent store development managers and merchandisers backed-up by the strong Member Support team all supporting our members who have all contributed to the Nisa Symbol Group winning this award.”