guardian Malaysia Won the Health & Beauty Retailer of the Year (Malaysia)

guardian Malaysia won the Health & Beauty Retailer of the Year (Malaysia) at the Retail Asia Awards 2025 presentation ceremony in Singapore on 4 June 2025. This award win, a first for guardian Malaysia, is the ‘crown jewel’ amongst the other awards contended by all the Malaysian health and beauty retail players at this regional  recognition ceremony. 

guardian Malaysia Won the Health & Beauty Retailer of the Year (Malaysia)

Speaking on the side line of the awards ceremony, Priscilla Wu, Managing Director of guardian Malaysia said, 

Priscilla Wu, Managing Director of guardian Malaysia

“This win recognises guardian Malaysia as your No. 1 Health & Beauty Retailer in our home country. Having started our first outlet in Malaysia 58 years ago, our team members across all levels have redoubled our efforts in the past year to deliver a fresher image, a better selection of products and services and also a better retail experience to our shoppers. We come to work every day with the goal of making available the best available choices to our shoppers in the competitive health and beauty retailing sector.”

During the awards’ presentation ceremony held at Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre in Singapore, guardian Malaysia also swept two other awards, namely the Health & Wellness Initiative of the Year (Malaysia) and the Supply Chain Innovation of the Year (Malaysia), making it a memorable night for the company. 

Successfully winning all 3 awards rubber-stamped guardian Malaysia’s approach of shopper-centricity across its innovation efforts – internally and externally. Its past year’s brand-building programs, partnership efforts with suppliers and tenants as well as omni-channel approaches were all designed to benefit its shoppers. These were key factors that helped guardian Malaysia land the big prize of No. 1 Health & Beauty Retailer. 

“It’s all about our shoppers. We want them to feel valued, we want them to learn and grow, we want them to be engaged and we want them to come to us for all their health and beauty needs! We simply want to win with our shoppers!” added Priscilla.

Retail Asia Awards is a distinguished annual event that recognises and honours outstanding achievements, innovations and excellence within the retail industry across the Asia-Pacific region. Major industry retail players across types – from hypermarkets, supermarkets, pharmacies, health and beauty retailers and others – compete yearly at this awards. 

The judges for this awards consist of experts from diverse backgrounds to ensure the highest level precision and equal amount of fairness. This year’s distinguished panel judges include David Eu of RSM Singapore, Anson Bailey of KPMG, Olivier Gergele of EY-Parthenon, Quan Yao Peh of Euromonitor International, Brian Man of PWC and Siddarth Pathak of Kearney. 

guardian has been very actively engaging its shoppers in recent months: from the launch of the Own Your Beautiful campaign to its award-winning Get.Set.Glow! wellbeing initiative, its #IYKYK offerings of the latest and trendiest brands in-store, guardian Awards Beauty & Wellness, Love is in the Hair and #LoveforLocal programs. 

“We thank all of you throughout Malaysia for making us, guardian Malaysia, your No. 1 Health & Beauty Retailer! While we may not be the largest player in the market, we firmly believe that every Malaysian deserves meaningful choices. With this win, we are committed to continue to bring the very best of choices, care and value to you and your loved ones,” concluded Priscilla. 

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