The Greats Gift Retailer Awards 2025 – now celebrating their fabulous 23rd year – are open, once again setting out to recognise and reward the UK’s outstanding gift shops and gift departments. The closing date for entries is Tuesday 11 February, 2025.
“Winning a Greats Gift Retailer award has become the pinnacle for gift retailers both large and small – a prestigious, coveted retail trophy that recognises excellence, initiative, innovation and professionalism at the highest level,” says Sue Marks, editor of Progressive Gifts & Home/GiftsandHome.net which organises and owns The Greats.
Continues Sue: “We’re therefore on the lookout for the ‘greatest of the great’, those extra special gift and lifestyle retailers, department stores and garden centres that, despite the challenges over the past year are nevertheless managing to stay at the top of their game. The Greats are a fantastic opportunity for gift retailers right across the board – from the tiniest village shop to the largest multiple – to bang the drum about their achievements over the past year. We know that there are some incredible retailers out there, and we want to hear from them!”
Uniting the gift industry, The Greats gift retailer awards winners, along with The Giftware Association’s Gift of the Year (GOTY) awards winners, will be revealed at The Gift Awards, a fabulous black tie awards event, to be held at the glittering Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on Thursday 15 May, 2025.
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).
For companies interested in finding 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.ukmob: 07525 634 306); Rob Willis (robw@max-publishing.co.uk mob: 07792 016832) or Warren Lomax (e: warren@max-publishing.co.uk; mob: 07977 572086).Sponsorship of all the award categories in GOTY and The Greats is managed by Max Publishing.
The ownership and running of the Gift of the Year awards remains under the stewardship of The Giftware Association while The Greats gift retailer awards are wholly owned and run by Max Publishing (publishers of Progressive Gifts & Home magazine/GiftsandHome.net).
Visit www.giftoftheyear.co.uk; www.thegreatsawards.co.uk; www.thegiftawards.com
Entries can also be emailed direct to suem@max-publishing.co.uk.
