{"id":67640,"date":"2025-11-27T05:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=67640"},"modified":"2025-12-27T05:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:29:24","slug":"dubai-duty-free-wins-meadfa-sustainability-and-csr-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dubai-duty-free-wins-meadfa-sustainability-and-csr-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Duty Free Wins MEADFA Sustainability and CSR Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dubaiverse.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dubai<\/a> Duty Free won the Sustainability and CSR Award at the 4th Middle East &amp; Africa Duty Free Association (MEADFA) Awards held on 10th November at the InterContinental Dubai Festival City.<\/p>\n<p>Held to coincide with the 2025 MEADFA conference, which welcomed a record number of 736 delegates, the awards ceremony was held during the MEADFA Gala dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by the MEADFA board, the awards programme celebrates innovation, resilience, and transformative contributions within the industry, reinforcing MEADFA&#8217;s commitment to recognizing excellence.<\/p>\n<p>The award acknowledged Dubai Duty Free&#8217;s forward-thinking approach in using retail as a platform for meaningful environmental and social impact. It&#8217;s entry for the Sustainability and CSR Award highlighted an integrated ESG strategy and a strong commitment to corporate social responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the award Dubai Duty Free Managing Director, Ramesh Cidambi said: &#8220;We are delighted to receive the Sustainability and CSR Award for the third time. This recognition reflects our commitment to social responsibility and a sustainable future &#8211; values that are central to who we are and how we measure success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cidambi accepted the award from Abdeslam Agzoul, MEADFA President and CEO Avolta Middle East &amp; Africa along with Rob Marriott, Managing Partner of Retail Strategic Partners. He was joined on stage by Bernard Creed, SVP &#8211; Finance, Michael Schdmit, SVP &#8211; Retail, Sharon Beecham, SVP &#8211; Purchasing, Zayed Al Shebli, SVP &#8211; Loss Prevention &amp; Corporate Security and Salim Dahman, Senior Manager &#8211; Marketing.<\/p>\n<p>A distinguished panel of industry experts brought their wealth of knowledge and experience to evaluate this year&#8217;s entries, representing a diverse range of expertise across travel retail, sustainability, marketing, and customer engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai Duty Free won the Sustainability and CSR Award at the 4th Middle East &amp; Africa Duty Free Association (MEADFA) Awards held on 10th November at the InterContinental Dubai Festival City. Held to coincide with the 2025 MEADFA conference, which welcomed a record number of 736 delegates, the awards ceremony was held during the MEADFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67642,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67640\/revisions\/67642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}