The annual gsport4girls Awards honour outstanding women in sport in South Africa – athletes, administrators, officials, sponsors, volunteers and fans.
(Click here to read the 2014 SPAR gsport Awards winners release, click here to read the post-event review and watch highlights of the event)
The Awards have become an occasion where guests put on their best bib and tucker as they gather to celebrate the elite in women’s sport.
In addition to the honour of being named the best of the best in their category, the winners receive an elegant glass trophy, and a hefty hamper of luxury goodies supplied by Big Five Duty Free.
Winners get a Big 5 hamper and Spar voucher. #SPARgsportAwards
— Nazli Hamilton (@NazliHamilton) November 24, 2014
The company first heard about the gsport Awards in 2009, and have sponsored the hampers ever since.
“We want the winners to feel special, and to reward them for their hard work and dedication,” said Big Five Marketing Manager Helena Melis.
“We regard it as an honour and a privilege to be associated with the gsport Awards. We like to provide a wide range of top end products, both useful and frivolous. Our company slogan is ‘We’re always taking off’, and we’d like the gsport winners to enjoy that sensation.”
Big Five has been operating in all of South Africa’s Airports since 2000, but the company has its roots in the first duty-free store that opened at the then Jan Smuts Airport (now called OR Tambo) in 1967. Since then, Big Five has grown beyond recognition.
“We keep a wide selection of fragrances, liquor, confectionary and tobacco, with stores in each international departure lounge in South Africa,” Melis explained.
“Our customers are all business and leisure passengers, coming and going from all the international airports in South Africa.”
In addition to offering top international brands such as Swarovski and Tag-Heuer, the Big Five outlets offer a wide range of uniquely South African products, all of which are sourced locally.
These include locally-made jewellery, t-shirts, delicacies such as biltong and dry wors, local liqueurs such as Amarula Cream, and superb South African red and white wines.
Big Five manages just over 3500 square metres of retail space in South Africa’s four international airports.
With a staff complement of more than 380, Big Five provides employment, income and development prospects for hundreds of families around South Africa.
The company is focused on targeting and capitalising on the ever-increasing number of tourists and business travelers visiting South Africa. Big Five currently serves approximately 13 million customers every year.
“African destinations consistently out-perform those of other continents,” said Melis. “Research of our African customers has shown a clear preference for global brands. Africa has the fastest-growing middle class population in the world, and we aim to meet the needs and desires of that group of people,” she said.
Photo 1 caption: Big Five Marketing Manager Helena Melis (left) hands over a 2014 SPAR gsport Awards winner’s hamper to blogger Phil Mphela, who was adjudged to have made best use of the hashtag #SPARgsportAwards during the awards event to win the luxury jet-set goodies bag, at the Wanderers Club, in Illovo, Johannesburg, on Monday, 24 November, 2014. Photo: Rebecca Hearfield / gsport
Photo 2 caption: The Big Five Duty Free winners’ hamper unpacked – as Big Five Marketing Manager Helena Melis told gsport, “A wide range of top end products, both useful and frivolous”, “’We’re always taking off’, and we’d like the gsport winners to enjoy that sensation.” Photo: Phil Mphela on facebook
(With editing by gsport)
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