MUMBAI: The first Zee Business Pinnacle Awards, instituted by Zee Business, has announced its first recipients amidst the blitz of corporate glitterati of the country.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation MD Dr E Sreedharan, MD was presented the ‘ZeeBusiness Pinnacle Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his contributions to growth and development of the transportation system in the capital city.
Jaipal Reddy, Minister of Urban Development, attended the award presentation ceremony as the Guest of Honour to share the illustrious moment of the real estate industry.
The ceremnoy was attended by personalities including S K Mitter, CEO, LIC Housing Finance, Ashwani Kumar, minister of State for Industries, Sahib Singh Verma, senior BJP leader and Vaidyanathan V country head ICICI Retail.
The Pinnacle Awards were given out in 19 categories from the Construction, Building and Allied industries in Real Estate. It acknowledged talents for their contribution in Technical, Creative and Individual achievements. The highlights of the award ceremonies were the announcement of Zee Buisness Pinnacle Lifetime Achievement Award conferred on Dr E. Sreedharan, MD, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Pinnacle Paint Award to Asian Paints, Pinnacle Steel Awards to Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), and Pinnacle Bank to HDFC Bank, informs an official release.
The details of the winners are listed below:
Technical Awards
Pinnacle Cement ’06
J.K Lakshmi
Pinnacle Paint ’06
Asian Paints
Pinnacle Plywood ’06
Green Ply
Pinnacle Steel ’06
Steel Authority Of India Limited
Pinnacle Tiles ’06
H&R Johnson
Pinnacle Bank-Home Loans ’06
HDFC Bank
Pinnacle Sanitary Ware ’06
Parryware
Pinnacle Electrical ’06 (Cables and switches)
Havells
Pinnacle Marble ’06
R.K Marble
Creative Awards
Heritage Buildings ’06
Taj Colaba
Pinnacle Awards Commercial building ‘06
Inorbit Mall
Pinnacle Residential Building ‘ 06
K.Raheja Group
Pinnacle Promotion – Print ’06
Omaxe Group
Pinnacle Promotion-TV ’06
Green Ply
Pinnacle Special Jury Award
Godrej Property for Planet Godrej
Pinnacle Corporate Building
ICICI Corporate Building Bandra Kurla
Individual Awards
Pinnacle Architect ’06
Sonali Bhagwati Spazzio
Pinnacle Interior Designer ‘06
Sanjay Wadhwa, Director SWBI Architects
Pinnacle Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr E. Sreedharan, MD, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
Speaking on the occasion, Zee News Ltd director Laxmi Goel said, “We are thrilled to have this opportunity to honor individuals and organisations who best reflect their commitment towards the development and growth of the real estate sector in India. We have received an overwhelming response from all participating corporate houses and professionals. The fact that we have received much more entries than what we had expected is a testimony to the fact that these awards were long overdue”
Goel further added, “We are very pleased to put-together a mix of national and internally acclaimed professionals to select the true winner in each of our award categories. We are really thankful to all our jury members for accepting our request and we are confident that through our full proof judging structure we would come out with the list of most deserving candidates in their respective domain”.
The Jury: Laxmi Goel, Director News Group, Zee News Ltd, Vahid Mehrinfar, executive Principal & Chief Brand Architech, Vahid Associated, Dubai, Jeffery West, Director, DTZ’s Indian Project Management Services, Subir K. Saha, Director, School of Planning & Architecture, Dr. Darlie Koshy, Executive Director, National Institute of Design, Ranu Das, CEO, Fairwood Consultants for the Technical Awards. The jury for the Creative Awards included Ankur Shrivastava, Managing Director, DTZ India, Anurag Batra, anagind Director & Editor-in-Chief, exchange4media Group, Shashi Sinha, Executive Director, Lodestar Universal, Ravi Deshpande, Chief Creative Officer, Contract, Ravi Kiran, CEO, South East Asia, Starcom, Mukesh Gupta, Managing Director, Graphis ads.