After a nail-biting few months, the finalists of The Greats gift retailer awards 2022 have been announced today (2 March).
All winners, including the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Achievement award, will be revealed at the inaugural The Gift Awards taking place at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel, with all strands of the gift industry invited to share in this exciting, very special day for the gift and home industry.
The Gift Awards event ceremony will bring together The Giftware Association’s Gift of the Year Awards and The Greats gift retailer awards – currently celebrating their 20th milestone year – organised and owned by Max Publishing, publishers of Progressive Gifts & Home/GiftsandHome.net.
At the lavish awards event, both gift product excellence and retail prowess will be recognised and rewarded.
“The bar has been set very high this year, and every one of our finalists excelled in their category,” commented Progressive Gift & Home/GiftandHome.net’s editor Sue Marks.
The Greats 2022 finalists are (in alphabetical order):
Independent Gift Retailer Of The Year – London, South, South East + East Anglia
Bill & Bert’s, Colchester
Etcetera, Hitchin
Gifts With Love . . . Middleton-on-Sea
Jumping Bean, Beckenham, East Dulwich and Honor Oak
Little Boat Gifts, Brightlingsea
Maybugs, Eastbourne and Hailsham
Independent Gift Retailer Of The Year – Midlands And Wales
The Celtic Company, Welshpool
Hugs & Kisses, Tettenhall
Joco, Nuneaton
Marmalade Meringue, Hinckley
Nest, Broughton Astley, Stoneygate and Thurlaston Garden Centre and Tearoom
The Silver Pear, Ludlow, Shropshire
Independent Gift Retailer Of The Year – North, Northern Ireland And Scotland
The Bottom Drawer/The Bottom Drawer Kids, Portadown
Cardhu Gifts & Interiors, Troon
Doodle & Boom, Bangor
The Keekin’ Glass, Prestwick
Presentation Cards & Gifts, Barrowford
Williams of Audlem, Audlem
Independent Gift Retailer Of The Year – West And South West
Cranbornes, Dorchester and Shaftesbury
Jo Amor, Tiverton
The Pod Company, Clifton
Raven Lifestyle, Totnes and Tavistock
The Rowan Tree, Budleigh Salterton
Surprises, Cirencester
Best Newcomer Gift Retailer
Becalmed, Leek
Driftroom, Reading
Gems, Clevedon
Hearts and Hugs, Titchfield
Gifts of Wales, Welshpool
The Lemon Tree, Beverley
Best Specialist Multiple Retailer Of Gifts
Brocante (5 shops)
House of Cards (7 shops)
Keepsake Scotland (4 shops)
Mooch, Ealing and Fulham (4 shops)
Lark (7 shops)
Vinegar Hill (10 shops)
Best Department Store Retailer Of Gifts
Austins, Newton Abbott
Jarrolds, Norwich
John Lewis & Partners
Morleys Stores
Nicholls, Crickhowell
Rossiters of Bath
Best Non-Specialist Retailer Of Gifts
About Living, Newton Mearns
The Denby Shop and Gift Emporium, Denby Pottery Village
Loch Levens Larder, Kinross
Lovely Libby’s, Rayleigh
Mrs Robinson, Crystal Palace and East Dulwich
Oliver Bonas
Best Garden Centre Retailer Of Gifts
Blue Diamond
Garsons, Esher and Titchfield
The Mains of Drum, Banchory
RHS Bridgewater, Bridgewater
Rosebourne Garden Centre, Aldermaston, Weyhill and Hampton-in-Arden
Yarnton Home & Garden, Yarnton
Best In Store/Window Display
The Bean Hive, Kettering for its jungle themed anniversary window
Etcetera, Hitchin for its award winning Christmas window
Highworth Emporium, Highworth for its Christmas Room
Mooch Gifts & Home, Bewdley and Stourport-on-Severn for its Halloween and Christmas windows
MiMi, Hartley Witney for its Christmas window
The Curious Fox, Chorlton for its front window displays
Best Retailer Initiative
Brocante, Charlestown, Fowey, Mevagissey and St Ives for its online friends supper party evenings
The Celtic Company, Welshpool for its Jellycat Red Dragon schools competition
Garsons, Esher and Titchfield for its 150th anniversary campaign
Lovely Libby’s, Rayleigh for its online ‘Friday Night Lives’
Paper Tiger, Edinburgh for its Chinese Year Of The Tiger fundraising initiative
Yarnton Home & Garden, Yarnton for its ‘Under Our Wing’ pop up space
Outstanding Achievement Award
No finalists are revealed for this special award. The winner will be announced on the night.
To find out more about The Gift Awards visit www.thegiftawards.com
The Gift Awards 2022 enjoys a strong roster of sponsors includingSpring Fair and Autumn Fair as headline supporter, plus: Abysse Corp; Ankorstore; Aspin; Battersea Dogs and Cats Home; Brand Licensing Europe; British Allied Trades Federation (BATF); Campo Marzio; Candlelight; Cardology; Cardzone; Carte Blanche Greetings; Creative Industries Association; Enesco; Faire; Gift Republic; Gisela Graham; Home & Gift Harrogate; HousewaresNews.net; Joe Davies; Lesser & Pavey; LicensingSource.net; Life Charms; Method UK; PGBuzz.net; Products of Change; Progressive Gifts & Home; Progressive Greetings Live; Sourcing Support Asia; Talking Tables; The Insights Family; The Seed Card Company; Spring Fair; The Giftware Association; Top Drawer, Wallace and Gromit; Widdop and Co., and Yodel.
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