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Past Recipients

  • DISTINGUISHED CANADIAN RETAILER OF THE YEAR AWARD
  • LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
  • AMBASSADOR AWARD
  • CANADIAN RETAIL HALL OF FAME AWARD


    2008 Distinguished Retailer of the Year recipient, Laurence Lewin (right), Co-Founder and President, La Senza Corp.

    2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Award recipient, Dr. William (Bill) H. Comrie, (left) O.C., LLD., Founder of The Brick Warehouse Corp.

    2008 Visa Canada Ambassador Award recipient, Karen and Don Cormier, Dayle's Department Store, and John Stuparyk and Jason Bots, United Cycle

    2008 Canadian Retail Hall of Fame Award inductee, Stephen Bebis, Golf Town.


    Distinguished Canadian Retailer of the Year
    Year Recipient Company
    2008 Laurence Lewin La Senza Corporation
    2007 Mario Pilozzi Wal-Mart Canada Corp.
    2006 Edward Kennedy The North West Company
    2005 Annette Verschuren Home Depot Canada
    2004 Wayne Sales Canadian Tire Corporation
    2003 Wynne Powell London Drugs
    2002 David Margolis Winners Merchants Inc.
    2001 John Forzani The Forzani Group Ltd.
    2000 Dave Ferguson Wal-Mart Canada
    1999 Paul S. Walters Sears Canada Inc.
    1998 Stephen Bachand Canadian Tire Corporation Ltd.
    1997 Richard Currie Loblaw Companies Ltd.
    1996 David Bloom Shoppers Drug Mart
    1995 Allister Graham Oshawa Group
    1994 Donald Beaumont Kmart Canada
    1993 George Eaton The T. Eaton Company
    1992 David Sobey Sobeys Inc.
    1991 Harvey Webber The Smart Shop
    1990 Dick Sharpe Sears Canada Inc.
    1989 Tom Bata Bata Retail
    1988 Walter Hachborn Home Hardware
    1987 Ray Wolfe Oshawa Group
    1986 Murray Koffler Shoppers Drug Mart
    1985 Abe Calp Calps New Brunswick
    1984 Ed Mirvish Honest Ed's
    1983 (Shared) Jack Barrow
    Tom Bolton
    Sears Canada Inc.
    Dominion Stores

    Lifetime Achievement Award
    Year Recipient Company
    2008 Dr. William H. Comrie The Brick Warehouse Corporation
    2007 Walter J. Hachborn Home Hardware Stores Ltd.
    2006 Herschel Segal Le Château Inc.
    2005 Richard Currie Loblaw Companies Ltd.
    2004 (Not Awarded)
    2003 Thomas J. and Sonja I. Bata Bata Shoe Organization
    2002 (Not Awarded)
    2001 Harry Rosen Harry Rosen Inc.
    2000 Aldo Bensadoun The Aldo Group
    1999 Ed Mirvish Honest Ed's

    VISA Canada Ambassador Award
    Year Recipient Company
    2008 Karen and Don Cormier
    John Stuparyk and Jason Bots
    Dayle's Department Store
    United Cycle
    2007 John Bidgood Bidgood's Supermarket
    2006 Stasia Nawrocki Dansk Gifts
    2005 Howard and Theresa Tanner The Plumbing Barn

    Canadian Retail Hall of Fame
    Year Inductee Company
    2008 Stephen Bebis Golf Town
    2007 Steve Matyas STAPLES Business Depot
    2006 George Heller
    Harry Rosen
    Hudson's Bay Company
    Harry Rosen Inc.
    2005 Christine Magee & Steve Gunn Sleep Country Canada
    2004 Mario Pilozzi Wal-Mart Canada
    2003 Garth Mitchell Mark's Work Wearhouse
    2002 William Turner Sears Canada Inc.
    2001 David Bloom Shoppers Drug Mart