Two Weeks Left To Enter The Greats 2020!

With just 14 days to go to the closing date for The Greats Awards 2020 entries and nominations – Friday January 31 – the clock is ticking for gift shops and gift departments planning to enter this year’s competition.

An entry form can be downloaded by visiting www.thegreatsawards.co.uk Alternatively, entrants can email their entries directly to suem@max-publishing.co.uk.

Above: Big smiles from Lizzie Hall and Frances Maulkerson, shop managers at Loft & Spires in Bury St Edmunds. They are shown with the shop’s award as winner of last year’s Greats Independent Gift Retailer of the Year - East Anglia category. — Above: Big smiles from Lizzie Hall and Frances Maulkerson, shop managers at Loft & Spires in Bury St Edmunds. They are shown with the shop’s award as winner of last year’s Greats Independent Gift Retailer of the Year – East Anglia category.

“What we’re looking for are the gift shops and gift departments who stand out from the crowd,” explains Progressive Gifts & Home/GiftandHome.net’s editor Sue Marks. “We want to know what shops have done over the past 12 months to up the ante and encourage new business. We also want to know about initiatives, outstanding displays, charity work, involvement with the local community etc.”

For retailers wanting to bang the drum about exceptional members of staff who go the extra mile, or the suppliers that provide the best service to independent gift retailers, email: ianh@max-publishing.co.uk

Above: Above: A delighted Rachel and Paul Roberts, co-owners of Mooch in Northamptonshire and Olney, received their Best Newcomer – Midlands, North & Scotland award from Jessica Dawnay, new business director of category sponsor Spring Fair and Autumn Fair. Also shown is compere Henry Paker (right).

Plus, this year, a brand new Best Gift Supplier Marketing award has been launched to recognise a supplier that has demonstrated excellence in marketing activities over the past year. Visit www.thegreatsawards.co.uk.

The winners of The Greats Awards 2020 will be announced at the Honorable Artillery Club (HAC) in London’s trendy Shoreditch, with all strands of the gift industry invited to share in this very special day for gift retail.

Above: Denise Laird, owner of Spirito, was presented with the Greats trophy by Lincoln Exley, managing director of category sponsor Allsorted, as winner of the Independent Gift Retailer of the Year – Scotland category.

Taking ‘The Victorious Greats’ as its theme, The Greats Award are set to be a lavish, fun, networking event for the great and the good in gift retail, providing an opportunity for everyone to get together and let their hair down.

Tickets to the event are available from event organiser Clare Hollick at Keystone Communications: email: clare@keystonecomms.co.uk or tel: 01733 294534, or direct from Max-Tickets.net

A fabulous line-up of Greats Awards 2020 sponsors include (in alphabetical order): Candlelight; Gift Republic; GiftsandHome.net; Gisela Graham; Good Housekeeping; Harrogate Christmas & Gift; Joe Davies; Progressive Gifts & Home; Premier Decorations; Progressive Greetings Live; Spring Fair and Autumn Fair; Wrendale Designs and The Giftware Association.

For remaining sponsorship opportunities, please contact Angie Bryant on 01993 212994; e: angieb@max-publishing.co.uk

The Greats Awards, launched in 2003, are owned by Max Publishing and Progressive Gifts & Home magazine.

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