Congratulations to all of the finalists and winners of the Retas Awards 2012 celebrating Greeting Card Retailing in the UK. We hope that you enjoyed the evening and would like to thank all of you who stock our cards. We consider ourselves very privileged to be serving such a fine host of retailers. For those of you we are not supplying us, what are you waiting for?!
Our lovely customer Mayther wins The Reta for Greeting Card Retailer of the Year
The Retas Awards Winners 2012 are:
From The Heart, Hungerford and Wootton Bassett
Sincerely Yours, Shenfield
The Secret Garden, Borough Green
Belly Button, Norwich
Cards N Things, Hellesdon, Norwich
Celebrations, Aylsham
Cardiac, Bedminster, Bristol
Shorelines of Cowes, Isle of Wight
Something Extra Special, Worle
Just For You, Sheffield
Mantons, Isle of Man
Occasions, Holmfirth, Sheffield
Sarah Lazar, manageress for The Village Card Shop, Streatham Vale, London
Janine Lewis, shop assistant for Cool! Cards, Oswaldtwistle
Tim Wearing, manager for Pen To Paper, Brighton
Kerfuffle, Brighton
Polka Dot, Keynsham, Bristol
The Card Shop, Portishead
Conochies, Shetland
Daisey Chain, Sutton Coldfield
Greetings of Ellesmere, Ellesmere
Fussy Nation, Notting Hill, London
NPO, Downpatrick
Pogmoor Post Office, Barnsley
Funky Pigeon - nine shops in London
Hallmark - five stores in Northern Ireland
House of Cards - seven shops in the South of England
Penmark - 11 stores in the Midlands
Morrisons
Sainsbury's
Waitrose
National Trust - 200+ branches (inc 15 high street shops) nationwide
Temptation - five stores in the Home Counties
Walkers Bookshops - six stores in the Midlands and East Anglia
WHSmith - 586 travel outlets and 611 high street stores nationwide
Cards Galore - 40+ branches
Cardland - 24 stores in Scotland & Northern Ireland
Clinton Cards - 400+ branches
Paper Kisses - 28+ branches
Scribbler - 22 branches
Brookfields Garden Centre, Nottingham
Burford Garden Centre, Burford
Forest Lodge Garden Centre, Farnham
Fenwicks, Newcastle - for its cloth bag promotion
Stationery Boutique, Ampthill - for its 'I Love Mum' afternoon tea Mother's Day competition
The Secret Garden, Borough Green - for its a 'Draw your Dad for Father's Day' campaign
CAPS, Manchester
Jacksons Greeting Cards, Sheffield
KH Distributors, Enfield
Rupert Magnus, Acton
NB: Wherever possible the names of the shops are clickable for you to be able to see finalists website and social media links.
Now in their eighth year, The Retas are established in recognition of the tremendous contribution that retailers both large and small, make to the success of the greeting card industry. Launched by Progressive Greetings magazine in 2005, The Retas recognise and celebrate not only the top independent and multiple greeting card retailers regionally and nationally, but also the new generation of retailers as well as employees of outstanding excellence.
This year the Retas Awards, the ‘Oscars’ of greeting card retailing, were held at at a Hollywood themed luncheon at at The Dorchester Hotel on Wednesday 11 July, where the winners of 2012 were announced. Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists!