All Retail Week Awards articles
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NewsThe Retail Week Awards 2025 shortlist has been revealed
The Retail Week Awards, which have been celebrating excellence in the UK’s retail industry for 30 years, have today revealed the 2025 shortlist.
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InterviewRetail Leader of the Year: How Sainsbury’s CEO Simon Roberts mixed tradition with innovation
As Sainsbury’s chief executive Simon Roberts wins the Salesforce Retail Leader of the Year Award, we meet the man who arrested the supermarket giant’s slumping market share and guided it through Covid and the cost-of-living crisis by putting food back at the heart of the business
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NewsJudith McKenna and Simon Roberts honoured at Retail Week Awards
Walmart legend Judith McKenna and Sainsbury’s boss Simon Roberts have both taken home personal honours at the 2024 Retail Week Awards.
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InterviewOutstanding Contribution to Retail Award: Judith McKenna on why people make the difference
Once again, it’s been a year of retail triumphs.
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NewsRevealed: Retail Week Awards 2024 shortlist
The Retail Week Awards, which have been celebrating excellence in the UK’s retail industry for nearly 30 years, have today revealed the 2024 shortlist.
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NewsRetail Week Awards 2024 deadline extended
The deadline to enter the Retail Week Awards 2024 has been extended.
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InterviewHow Retail Leader of the Year Carl Cowling piloted WHSmith to new heights
As WHSmith chief executive Carl Cowling wins the Salesforce Retail Leader of the Year Award, we meet the man who led the high street and travel specialist to not just survive but thrive following the pandemic
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AnalysisRetail Week Award for Lifetime Achievement: Jacqueline Gold
This year we have made a very special, one-off award to commemorate and celebrate the life of Jacqueline Gold.
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AnalysisRetail Week Awards 2023: The winners
Retail Week’s annual celebration of UK retail at the top of its game.
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InterviewFrom hotcakes to hoodies – how Roger Whiteside transformed Greggs
Retail Leader of the Year Roger Whiteside oversaw an impressive post-pandemic recovery at Greggs while ‘doing the right thing’ – and he leaves the chain well equipped to conquer London and beyond.
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InterviewHow the Co-op’s Jo Whitfield is shaping a safer, more diverse sector
As Whitfield is named Retail Activist at the Retail Week Awards 2022, we take a look at her work to change the law around shopworkers’ safety and champion underrepresented voices
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InterviewHow Theo Paphitis went from sales assistant to tycoon, TV star and campaigner
As Theo Paphitis wins the AlixPartners Outstanding Contribution to Retail Award, the boss of Ryman, Boux Avenue and Robert Dyas reflects on his lifelong passion for retail
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Opinion‘Our retail heroes are the toast not just of the industry, but of the nation’
The Retail Week Awards, sponsored by Salesforce, are always a fantastic occasion but, given everything that the past 18 months have thrown the industry’s way, this year’s went beyond a single night of celebration – they mark a moment in time.
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InterviewInterview: Matt Moulding – Pandemic year was ‘time to prove what you believe in’
Matt Moulding talks about THG’s landmark year – from donating £100m of his shares to a charitable foundation to landing that Softbank joint venture deal.
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VideoWatch: Feed the Nation campaign wins Outstanding Contribution to Retail Award
Despite playing in what is usually one of the most fiercely competitive markets in global retail, UK grocers put aside their rivalry and worked together to Feed the Nation – a monumental effort that should never be forgotten.
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AnalysisRetail Week Awards 2021: The winners
With character and courage: How retail faced the Covid-19 crisis