Awards, and who gave them

One national award, one founding membership, and 4 regional fairs led on footfall. Retailer references are available on a call.

  • Twills Clothing Distributor Excellence Award 2021 honouring Arihant Marketing: a shield in blue acrylic on a blue base
  • The Golden Star Seller Distributor of the Year trophy presented to Arihant Marketing: a gold tick on a gold sphere over a black base
  • Tadpole trophy naming Arihant Marketing, Guwahati, the most admired launch of the brand year 2018-19: a gold star in a blue frame

The trophy case

A short list. Every entry checkable.

  1. Best Distributor of India

    Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI)

    2015

    The national distributor award in Indian apparel.

  2. NEGTA founder membership

    North Eastern Garment Traders Association

    Founder

    The house helped found the association that organises the Northeast's garment trade.

  3. Highest footfall in exhibitions

    Regional garment exhibitions

    4 fairs

In the cabinet

Certificates and trophies from national brands and trade fairs, photographed as they sit on the shelf.

  • Twills: Distributor Excellence Award 2021
  • Distributor of the Year trophy
  • Tadpole: most admired brand launch, 2018-19
  • Tadpole: Champion of the Year 2021-22
  • Indian Terrain: Best Channel Partner, East India
  • Indian Terrain: Valued Channel Partner, 2023
  • Certificate of Excellence in distribution, 2024
  • Tadpole: authorised distributor for Assam
  • CMAI North India Garment Fair, 2024

What the trade says

Retailers, brands and store owners across seven states, in their own words. Names shared privately on request.

  • The van reaches every twenty days whether I ring or not. My racks have never been the reason I lost a sale.
    Menswear MBO ownerDibrugarh · Retail partner since 2016
  • They took our label from zero counters to across Assam without us hiring a single field rep.
    Area sales head, national menswear brandShop-in-shop partner since 2019
  • Season stock arrives sized for my town, not for a metro. That is the whole difference.
    Family outfitterJorhat · Retail partner since 2011
  • The first distributor who showed me sell-through numbers before asking for an order.
    Multi-brand retailerSilchar · Retail partner since 2018
The van reaches every twenty days whether I ring or not. My racks have never been the reason I lost a sale.
Menswear MBO ownerDibrugarh · Retail partner since 2016
The first distributor who showed me sell-through numbers before asking for an order.
Multi-brand retailerSilchar · Retail partner since 2018
Billing is clean and claims settle on the date they said. Nobody re-negotiates after the fact.
Womenswear retailerShillong · Retail partner since 2014
When a brand asks how to enter the Northeast, I give them one phone number.
Regional sales veteranImphal · 25 years in the trade
Festival stock lands before the festival. It sounds obvious until you have bought from someone else.
Multi-brand retailerNagaon · Retail partner since 2019
I get a number for every option, every month. Nobody else in the region reports like that.
Brand merchandising headShop-in-shop partner since 2022
They took our label from zero counters to across Assam without us hiring a single field rep.
Area sales head, national menswear brandShop-in-shop partner since 2019
The store opened on schedule, staffed and stocked. We flew in for the ribbon and flew back out.
Franchise manager, national brandStore partner since 2024
Two decades of cartons and I have never once counted one twice.
Hosiery and innerwear wholesalerAgartala · Trade partner since 2005
I ring on a Tuesday and the stock is on my rack by the weekend. That is the whole relationship.
Menswear retailerTinsukia · Retail partner since 2013
Ethnic depth in my town is not a metro assortment cut down. They size it for who actually walks in.
Ladieswear retailerDimapur · Retail partner since 2015
Season stock arrives sized for my town, not for a metro. That is the whole difference.
Family outfitterJorhat · Retail partner since 2011
I own the store. They run it more tightly than I would have.
First-time store investorGuwahati · Franchise owner since 2023
At the fairs, theirs is the stand you queue for. The trade votes with its feet.
Garment trade association memberGuwahati
They told me not to take a label once. That is when I started trusting the rest of the list.
Family store ownerTezpur · Retail partner since 2017
Our counters went live across four states in one season without us opening a regional office.
National brand, east zoneDistribution partner since 2021

References available on a phone call

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