Retail Week Awards 2025 Shortlist

2025 Shortlist


THE RESPONSIBLE RETAILER AWARD

  • Boots
  • Co-op
  • Currys
  • eBay
  • John Lewis Partnership
  • Ocado Retail
  • Reskinned
  • Scamp & Dude
  • Seasalt
  • Wolf & Badger

THE SALESFORCE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE GAMECHANGER AWARD

Sponsored by:

  • Bensons for Beds
  • Cloud Nine
  • Co-op
  • Holland & Barrett
  • John Lewis Partnership
  • New Look
  • Radley
  • Sweaty Betty
  • Vision Express

THE BEST NEW STORE AWARD - SMALL/MEDIUM

  • American Golf, Norwich
  • Astrid & Miyu, Carnaby Street, London
  • Boots Opticians, York
  • B&Q Local, Brighton
  • Central Co-op, Bury St Edmonds
  • Hammonds Fitted Furniture, York
  • PureSeoul, Westfield White City, London
  • Søstrene Grene, Oxford Street, London
  • The Fragrance Shop, Oxford Street, London
  • Vision Express, Oxford Street, London
  • WHSmith, Birmingham Airport

THE BEST NEW STORE AWARD - LARGE

  • Frasers Group, Norwich
  • Go Outdoors, York
  • Hugo Boss, Regent Street, London
  • Lush, Glasgow
  • NBA Store, Oxford Street, London
  • Pets at Home, Brentford, London
  • Sports Direct, Cardiff

THE GREEN INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR AWARD

  • Abel & Cole
  • Aldi
  • Amazon
  • AO
  • Asda
  • Co-op
  • Decathlon
  • Dr Martens
  • Lush
  • Nobody's Child
  • THG
  • Waitrose

THE SPECIALTY RETAILER OF THE YEAR AWARD

  • American Golf
  • Boots Opticians
  • Harding
  • Jollyes
  • Majestic Wine
  • Radley
  • Sephora
  • Superdrug
  • The Entertainer
  • The Perfume Shop
  • Toolstation

THE FASHION RETAILER OF THE YEAR AWARD

  • AllSaints
  • Club L London
  • Nobody's Child
  • Primark
  • Rixo
  • Seasalt

THE GROCER OF THE YEAR AWARD

  • Aldi
  • Lidl
  • Ocado Retail
  • Sainsbury's
  • Tesco
  • Waitrose

THE HAPPIEST PLACE TO WORK AWARD IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE RETAIL TRUST

Sponsored by: 

  • Aldi
  • AllSaints
  • BP
  • Fat Face
  • Jollyes
  • Lakeland
  • Majestic Wine
  • Tesco
  • The Perfume Shop
  • Thomas Sabo

THE ZEBRA STORE HEROES AWARD

Sponsored by:

  • Shane Mojoo, store manager, BP, Mill End
  • David Brook, store manager, Co-op, Leeds
  • Elizabeth Goddard, store manager, Co-op, Preesall
  • Craig Smith, store manager, Cotton Traders, Doncaster
  • Store team, Currys, Warrington
  • Jane Gower, store manager, Jollyes, Dartford
  • Trafford Centre store team, New Look, Manchester
  • Store team, Seasalt, Edinburgh
  • Sarlim Mohamed, general manager, and Camden store team, TK Maxx, London

THE DISTRIBUTION/DELIVERY HEROES AWARD

  • Ryan McBride, gas installation engineer, AO, Exeter
  • Michaela Knott, distribution centre team manager, Co-op, Newhouse
  • Trevor McKenna, service centre manager, and depot team, Dreams, Gartcosh
  • Warehouse and dispatch teams, Furniturebox, Chippenham and Warminster
  • Lee Kaufman, head of supply chain, Jollyes, Middlewich
  • Leslie Mitchell, customer delivery driver, Waitrose, Coulsdon

THE HEAD OFFICE HEROES AWARD

  • Jo Salisbury, head of contact centre transformation, and the contact centre transformation team, AO
  • Operational excellence team, Currys
  • International development team, Holland & Barrett
  • Retail tech projects/operational change team, Holland & Barrett
  • Frozen food HQ team, Jollyes
  • Simon Kehoe, product training manager, Majestic Wine
  • UK travel merchandising team, WHSmith

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS INCLUSION & DIVERSITY HEROES AWARD

Sponsored by:

  • Adele Quinn, general store manager, Asda, Queensferry
  • Samantha Pitchley, assistant store manager, Mottingham, Chetna Meisuria, training adviser, Lynne Dougan Taylor, people relations adviser, BP
  • Inclusion delivery group, Central Co-op
  • Kirsty Littlemore, head of controls finance, Currys
  • The people team, Fat Face
  • Diversity and inclusion team, Primark
  • Associate resource groups – TJX Europe
  • Del Adigbli, regional manager, Waitrose
  • Diversity, equity, inclusion and wellbeing team, WHSmith

THE COMMUNITY HEROES AWARD

  • Joshua Griffiths, general manager's assistant, Amazon, Liverpool
  • Alan Wrigley, customer adviser, B&Q, Oldham
  • Ian Cairns, store manager, Co-op, Mauchline
  • Nat Wilding, store manager, Co-op, Portland
  • Adele Jackson, store manager, and store team, Currys, Blackpool
  • Ghassan Hashim, managing director, Ecklee Supermarket, Motspur Park
  • Karen Cunningham, community champion, and Chris Lawlor, store manager, Henderson Retail, Lisburn
  • Your Co-op Food Walsall Town Centre team, Midcounties Co-operative, Walsall

THE EV CARGO DIGITAL EXCELLENCE AWARD

Sponsored by: 

  • Ann Summers
  • Deliveroo
  • Harding
  • Hobbycraft
  • Holland & Barrett
  • Morrisons
  • N Brown
  • Sainsbury's
  • Screwfix
  • SportsShoes.com
  • Tesco
  • Wickes

THE BEST RETAILER UNDER £250M AWARD


  • Cotton Traders
  • F. Hinds
  • Fortnum & Mason
  • Nobody's Child
  • Seasalt
  • Søstrene Grene
  • The Cotswold Company

THE ALIXPARTNERS BEST RETAILER OVER £250M AWARD

Sponsored by: 

  • Aldi
  • AO
  • B&Q
  • EE
  • Lookfantastic
  • Ocado Retail
  • Primark
  • Screwfix
  • Superdrug
  • Tesco

Nominated Categories

The following categories are nomination only and will be revealed on March 20th at the Retail Week Awards Ceremony.

THE SALESFORCE RETAIL LEADER OF THE YEAR AWARD

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THE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO RETAIL AWARD