As the closing date for The Greats 2025 gets closer – Tuesday February 11 – gift retailers are invited to fanfare their retail initiatives over the past 12 months.
The category is open to all retailers who have undertaken a specific initiative over the past year that boosted sales of their giftware products and encouraged footfall, through for example, promotions, community activities, charity collaborations, website activity, staff training or through a customer loyalty program.
Last year, The Greats 2024 Best Retailer Initiative category was won by Maybugs – which has gift stores in Bexhill-on-Sea, Eastbourne, Hailsham and Tunbridge Wells – for its artisan market initiative at the multiple’s Eastbourne store, but which gift shop’s name will be on the Greats trophy in 2025?
Last year, finalists in the category were:
- Brocante (10 stores in Devon and Cornwall) for its Christmas choir initiative at the multiple’s Charleston store
- House of Cards (7 stores in the Home Counties) for its painting by numbers staff initiative
- Joco, Nuneaton for its VIP Members Group initiative
- The Voewood, Blackheath Standard, S London for its local magazine
- Serendipity House, Kirkham for Its ‘H & Em’ live events
All entries for the Best Retailer Initiative category 2025 should be sent by email to Sue Marks, editor of Progressive Gifts & Home/GiftsandHome.net directly at suem@max-publishing.co.uk stating the relevant categories.
More details are available on The Greats website by clicking here.
Uniting the gift industry, The Greats Awards have once again joined forces with The Giftware Association’s Gift of the Year (GOTY) awards, with all winners – both The Greats and the GOTY – to be revealed at a fabulous black tie awards event, to be held at the glittering Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on Thursday 15 May.
To find out more about sponsorship opportunities for The Greats and The Gift Of The Year Awards, contact Ali Farrell (e: alisonf@max-publishing.co.uk; mob: 07872 113635); Ian Hyder (e: ianh@max-publishing.co.uk mob: 07525 634 306); Rob Willis (robw@max-publishing.co.uk mob: 07792 016832); Warren Lomax (e: warren@max-publishing.co.uk; mob: 07977 572086). Visit www.thegreatsawards.co.uk or www.thegiftawards.com
Tickets to the awards can be booked by visiting www.max-tickets.net
or by contacting awards organiser Clare Hollick at clare@createvents.co.uk (tel: 01183 340085).
Tickets cost £230 (+VAT) and tables of 10 and 12 are available. Visit www.thegreatsawards.co.uk or www.thegiftawards.com
First launched in 2003, The Greats Gift Retailer Awards are owned and organised by Max Publishing and Progressive Gifts & Home Worldwide.
Top: Last year’s Greats Best Retailer Initiative category winner was Maybugs for the launch of an artisan market housed within the company’s Eastbourne store.
