SanDisk honors Grand Stores with 'Best Merchandising Development Award'

Grand Stores were selected by SanDisk for their proactive approach in developing and executing SanDisk branded memory centres across the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

SanDisk's Annual Channel Partner Awards 2007 was held earlier last month in Mallorca, Spain, and honored a number of world-class distributors, retailers and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Winners were selected for their outstanding performance in customer satisfaction and overall dedication and achievements in maintaining SanDisk's market leadership in the flash memory market.

"SanDisk's EMEA Channel Partner Awards play a curial role in our strategy and success. This is why each year we single out the partners that have excelled throughout the past year and delivered superior value to our customers," said Tareq Husseini, SanDisk's Middle East and Africa Sales Director.

"Grand Stores have successfully met our expectations by displaying a sustained, consistent and proactive approach that succeeded in achieving great results and championed the SanDisk brand in-store. Grand Stores are a key channel partner and will continue to be so in the future."

Grand Stores is SanDisk's direct distribution partner in the United Arab Emirates. Since its establishment over two decades ago, Grand Stores has represented and distributed world leading consumer brands such as Nikon and Fujifilm. Grand Stores is considered one of the best retail organizations in the field of photography, digital imaging, electronics, audio and video equipment for the UAE market.

"We are very proud to receive this award that acknowledges our commitment to maintain professionalism in matching the standards of our brands," Omar Ghanayem, Director of Technology Division at Grand Stores.

"We want to thank SanDisk for their innovation in products and quality that provided us with a strong foundation to meet the needs of customers in the country. We also would like to thank and share this success with our retail partners for their support in product merchandising and vendor displays. And of course the Grand Stores team for their hard work, talent and skills that have been the driving force to position us as one of best retail distributors in the UAE."