Retail Week Awards 2020: The winners

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Tesco boss Dave Lewis and Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner were among the winners of the Retail Week Awards 2020 sponsored by Salesforce.

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Lewis won the AlixPartners Outstanding Contribution to Retail Award for his work driving the turnaround of the UK’s biggest grocer Tesco.

Lewis has led the grocer for five-and-a-half years and was the first chief executive to be appointed from outside the business. He has taken Tesco from a trio of profit warnings in the months preceding his arrival and an accountancy scandal weeks into his tenure to a business that delivered a 6% rise in pre-tax profit to £494m in its interim results in October.

In his time running Tesco, Lewis has streamlined the business’ international portfolio and driven its sustainability agenda – all while driving a recovery in profits and sales growth.

Ocado boss and co-founder Steiner won the Clarity Retail Leader Award for his pioneering work at the grocery etailer, forging international grocery alliances with the likes of Marks & Spencer, Japanese grocer Aeon and Australian chain Coles, while driving impressive sales growth.

Among the other winners were AO.com founder John Roberts, who won the Blue Yonder Retail Activist Award for his work as chair of OnSide Youth Zones, which seeks to provide young people with a safe, affordable and inspiring place to spend their leisure time.

Greggs won Best Value Retailer and the Salesforce Best Retailer Over £250m.

Retail Week Awards 2020 winners

Award	Winner	Mark of Excellence
The everis Consulting Best Place to Work	Beaverbrooks
The American Express Best Fashion Retailer	Reiss
The Trax Best Grocer	Aldi	The Co-op
Store of the Year – Large Format	Pets at Home, Stockport, Manchester
Store of the Year – Small Format	Loaf, Guildford, Surrey
Best Value Retailer	Greggs
The Cognizant Responsible Retailer	The Co-op	Iceland Foods
The Hermes Customer Experience – Game Changer	Natuzzi with Microsoft
Emerging Retailer	Sosandar
Own-Brand Range or Product	Asos, Collusion
The Salesforce Speciality Retailer	Pets at Home	Hobbycraft
Health and Beauty Retailer	The Body Shop
The Openpay Store Manager	Deborah Jeyachandran, The Co-op, New Eltham	Tom Balay, Sainsbury’s, Selly Oak
The Salesforce Best Retailer Over £250m	Greggs
Best Retailer Under £250m	Hobbycraft
The Clarity Retail Leader	Tim Steiner, co-founder and CEO, Ocado
The AlixPartners Outstanding Contribution to Retail	Dave Lewis, CEO, Tesco
The Persado Consumer Choice	Amazon
The Blue Yonder Retail Activist	John Roberts, founder and CEO, AO.com	Mark Constantine, founder and CEO, Lush Henk Jan Beltman, chief chocolate officer, Tony’s Chocolonely