The best of retail will be celebrated at the Retail Week Awards 2019 sponsored by Salesforce.

Retailers’ roles as great employers, good corporate citizens and innovators will all be recognised – as well as their skills in consummately serving shoppers. The full shortlist is below.

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Retail Week Awards 2019 shortlist 

Best Place to Work

  • B&Q
  • Beaverbrooks
  • Boden
  • EE
  • Hobbycraft
  • Jardine Motors Group
  • Screwfix
  • T.M. Lewin

The Infor Best Fashion Retailer

  • Asos
  • Boden
  • Joules
  • Mr Porter
  • Net-a-Porter Group
  • Primark
  • SilkFred 

Best Grocer

  • Aldi
  • Co-op
  • Iceland
  • Lidl
  • Morrisons
  • Ocado
  • Tesco

Best New Store

  • Adidas with Checkland Kindleysides, Hanbury Street, London
  • Boden, King’s Road & Westfield White City, London
  • Debenhams, Watford, Hertfordshire
  • Eat 17, Hammersmith, London
  • John Lewis & Partners, Westfield White City, London
  • L’Occitane, Regent Street, London
  • Morrisons with ISG, Parson Green, St Ives
  • Smeg, Regent Street, London
  • Sports Direct with Inurface media, Keith Bishop Associates and The One Off, Thurrock, Essex
  • The Shop at Bluebird with Dalziel & Pow, Covent Garden, London

Retail Destination

  • Adidas with Checkland Kindleysides, Hanbury Street, London
  • Boxpark, Shoreditch and Croydon, London
  • Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge, London
  • Heal’s, Tottenham Court Road, London
  • O2, The O2, North Greenwich, London
  • Sports Direct with Brinkworth, Inurface Media and The One Off, Thurrock, Essex

Best Value Retailer

  • Aldi
  • Lidl
  • Matalan
  • Poundland

Community Retailer

  • B&Q
  • Beaverbrooks
  • Boots, Healthcare Team
  • Co-op
  • Mothercare, Connecting the Global Parenting Community
  • Pets at Home
  • Simply Fresh with Compass Group
  • Tesco
  • Timpson, The Timpson Foundation

Global Impact Award

  • Co-op, The Co-op Way
  • H&M, Global Change
  • Iceland, ‘Doing the Right Thing’: Plastics and Palm Oil
  • Lego, Plants from Plants
  • Tesco, No Time for Waste

The JDA Software Customer Innovation

  • Airtime Rewards
  • CollectPlus, Print In Store Returns Labels with Amazon Alexa
  • Co-op
  • Currys PC World
  • Debenhams, Beauty Community
  • Eyekandy, Point and Place AR Shopping App
  • FavourUp, Customer Innovation with WearTheWalk
  • Flying Tiger Copenhagen with Djungle, Flying Tiger Jungle
  • Sainsbury’s Argos
  • Sainsbury’s, SmartShop Mobile Pay
  • Shop Direct, Integrated on Site Tracking Solution – Yodel API

The O&C Strategy Consultants Emerging Retailer

  • Brand Power
  • ManoMano
  • SilkFred
  • Tapi Carpets & Floors
  • Trouva 

International Growth Retailer

  • Green Man Gaming
  • Joules
  • Made.com
  • Matalan
  • Net World Sports
  • Quiz
  • The Hut Group

Marketing or Advertising Campaign of the Year

  • AO.com, Delivering Tomorrow
  • Co-op, Co-op x Live Nation Partnership Marketing Campaign
  • Matalan
  • Primark, Primark x Alice Liveing
  • River Island
  • Screwfix, Legends of the Game
  • Tesco

The American Express Own-Brand Range or Product

  • Aldi, Mamia
  • Co-op
  • Go Outdoors
  • Lidl, Hortus Gin
  • LloydsPharmacy, Solero
  • Pep&Co at Poundland
  • The Entertainer
  • The Hut Group
  • WiggleCRC

The Salesforce Speciality Retailer of the Year

  • Card Factory
  • Dreams
  • Hobbycraft
  • Holland & Barrett
  • Loaf
  • The Entertainer
  • The Perfume Shop
  • Yours Clothing

Health and Beauty Retailer

  • Birchbox
  • Debenhams
  • Feelunique
  • Superdrug
  • The Hut Group

Store Manager

  • Alex Burnip, Bridge Street, Morpeth, Boots
  • Jan Dowell, Merry Hill Shopping Centre, Birmingham, Card Factory
  • Michelle Gill, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, Co-op
  • Steve Smith, Cambridge, Co-op
  • Priya Cinar, Wood Green, London, Dixons Carphone
  • Lee Hilton, Trafford, Manchester, EE
  • Rob Seacombe, Ipswich, Suffolk, EE
  • Simon Felstead, Fulham, London, Iceland
  • Elliot Moore, Piccadilly, London, Outdoor and Cycle Concepts
  • Lee Macoy, Westwood Cross, Broadstairs, Margate, Sainsbury’s Argos

The Cognizant Digital Pioneer

  • Asos
  • Dixons Carphone
  • Holland & Barrett
  • N Brown
  • O2, Supercharge Proactive Upgrades
  • Ocado Technology
  • Sainsbury’s Argos
  • The Hut Group

Best Retailer Under £250m

  • Beaverbrooks
  • Eat 17
  • Green Man Gaming
  • Hobbycraft
  • Shoe Zone
  • The Entertainer
  • Yours Clothing

The Salesforce Best Retailer over £250m

  • Asos
  • Dreams
  • Iceland
  • Primark
  • Tesco
  • The Hut Group

The Hitachi Capital Consumer Choice Award

This award celebrates the favourite UK retailer. The winner is determined by retail consumers who have participated in an online survey about their favourite UK retailer.

  • Aldi
  • Amazon
  • Asda
  • Debenhams
  • John Lewis & Partners
  • Marks & Spencer
  • Next
  • Primark
  • Sainsbury’s
  • Tesco

The Retail Activist Award

  • Jacqueline Gold, CEO, Ann Summers
  • Steve Murrells, CEO, Co-op
  • Richard Walker, MD, Iceland
  • Dave Lewis, CEO, Tesco
  • James Timpson, CEO, Timpson
  • Alannah Weston, deputy chairman, Selfridges Group

The Clarity Retail Leader of the Year

Winner announced on the night.

The AlixPartners Outstanding Contribution to Retail

Winner announced on the night.

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