Harvey Norman Wins Top Monster Award; Keys Wows Crowd

By Lisa Johnston On Jan 10 2013 - 6:56pm

Alicia Keyes

LAS VEGAS — The annual Monster Retailer Awards drew an overflow crowd to the Ballroom of the Paris Hotel, where Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys wowed it with a, well, monster live performance.

Before the concert kicked off, head monster Noel Lee presented the company's Most Monstrous Awards to its best-performing retail partners of the previous year, with the top honor, the Gold Award, going to Australian CE chain Harvey Norman.

This year’s winners, by category, were as follows:

• Most Monstrous Domestic Distributor: Almo
• Most Monstrous Independent CE Retailer: Crutchfield
• Most Monstrous Travel Retailer: Dixon's Travel (United Kingdom)
• Most Monstrous Specialty Chain: Media Markt (Russia)
• Most Monstrous Power Retail Chain: Harvey Norman (Australia)