{"id":9424,"date":"2020-06-29T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rli.uk.com\/awards\/2015\/?page_id=9424"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:50:10","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div class=\"x-section e9424-e1 m79s-0 m79s-1\"><div class=\"x-container max width marginless-columns e9424-e2 m79s-3\"><div class=\"x-column x-sm x-2-3 e9424-e3 m79s-4 m79s-5\"><hr class=\"x-line e9424-e4 m79s-6 m79s-7\"\/><div class=\"x-text x-text-headline e9424-e5 m79s-c\"><div class=\"x-text-content\"><div class=\"x-text-content-text\"><span class=\"x-text-content-text-subheadline\"><strong>THE RLI MENA AWARDS 2024<\/strong><\/span>\n<h5 class=\"x-text-content-text-primary\">Celebrating Retail &amp; Leisure Excellence<br>Across the MENA Region<\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><hr class=\"x-line e9424-e6 m79s-7 m79s-8\"\/><div class=\"x-text x-content e9424-e7 m79s-d m79s-e\"><p><strong>Held on the 7th February 2024 at the Crowne Plaza RDC Hotel in Riyadh, Retail and Leisure International\u2019s inaugural RLI MENA Awards in association with Headline Partner Apparel Group provided a memorable evening that recognised and celebrated the most visionary and innovative retail and leisure concepts from across the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After hosting the Global RLI Awards at the Pan Pacific London in the UK last year and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at the British Embassy in 2022, RLI felt this year was the perfect opportunity to build on the success of that event by introducing a dedicated awards ceremony for the MENA region, to celebrate the very best of what the Middle East and North Africa has to offer across retail, leisure and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The evening began with a Welcome Reception in partnership with New Murabba Development Company where people could catch\u2010up with friends and colleagues in the industry before taking their seats. As anticipation started to build, Presenter Shona Lindsay and RLI Publisher Jayne Rafter took to the stage to commence an evening of celebration and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>In her opening speech, RLI Publisher Jayne Rafter said: \u201cTonight we will honour the most visionary and innovative retail and leisure concepts from across the region. The retail and leisure industry is exciting, dynamic and innovative and the Awards pay tribute to those companies that continue to push the boundaries; who are not afraid of the challenges that they are presented with; and who refuse to settle for anything but the very best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We would also like to thank each of our Sponsors and Partners for their much\u2010valued loyalty and support, as well as our Judging Panel for their hard work and dedication in making the tough calls.<\/p>\n<p>An exquisite three\u2010course meal followed during which guests were treated to entertainment from Shona Lindsay who performed a number of classic songs from the James Bond films along with tracks from her group \u2018The Rat Pack Dolls\u2019. It was then time for the main event, the RLI MENA Awards.<\/p><\/div><hr class=\"x-line e9424-e8 m79s-7 m79s-9\"\/><\/div><div class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-3 e9424-e9 m79s-4\"><hr class=\"x-line e9424-e10 m79s-7 m79s-a\"\/><span class=\"x-image e9424-e11 m79s-g\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Jayne.png\" width=\"764\" height=\"764\" alt=\"Image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><hr class=\"x-line e9424-e12 m79s-7 m79s-b\"\/><div class=\"x-text x-content e9424-e13 m79s-e m79s-f\"><p><strong><em>Jayne Rafter<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>RLI Publisher<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-section e9424-e14 m79s-0 m79s-2\"><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e9424-e15 m79s-h m79s-i\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e9424-e16 m79s-j\"><div class=\"x-frame x-frame-video-embed e9424-e17 m79s-k m79s-l\"><div class=\"x-frame-inner\"><div class=\"x-video x-video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pAfHuIEa9xE?si=9Vp3CGOftchL4z-1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RLI MENA AWARDS 2024 Celebrating Retail &amp; Leisure ExcellenceAcross the MENA RegionHeld on the 7th February 2024 at the Crowne Plaza RDC Hotel in Riyadh, Retail and Leisure International\u2019s inaugural RLI MENA Awards in association with Headline Partner Apparel Group provided a memorable evening that recognised and celebrated the most visionary and innovative retail and leisure concepts from across &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-blank-4.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9424","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23856,"href":"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9424\/revisions\/23856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rliawards.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}