Greeting card retailers have been recognised in the Retas 2025, in an awards ceremony held today (July 3) at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London
The title of Greeting Card Retailer of the Year went to bookseller Waterstones.
Other winners include Occasional Cards and Gifts, Kingsbridge, whose owners Jayne & Kevin Brooking are interviewed in the upcoming July/August issue of Greetings Today, along with The Letter Arty, Manchester, whose owner Matt Simpson is our Diary of a Card Shop columnist for this issue.
More winners, including Cardiff’s Daisy Daisy, Glasgow’s Penny Black, and Cards and Gifts, Dronfield, appear in our Shop Talk feature.
The full round-up of Retas Awards 2025 winners are below:
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – London
Earlybird, Stoke Newington
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – Home Counties and South East
Inklings, Hungerford
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – East Anglia
Abigail’s Cards & Gifts, Dereham and Norwich
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – South West
Occasional Cards and Gifts, Kingsbridge, Devon
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – Wales
Daisy Daisy, Cardiff
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – Midlands
Hugs & Kisses, Tettenhall
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – North West
Celebrations, Carlisle
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – North East
Cards & Gifts, Dronfield
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – Scotland
Penny Black, Glasgow
Best Greeting Card Retailer Newcomer
The Letter Arty, Manchester
Best Independent Bookstore Retailer of Greeting Cards
Gerrards Cross Bookshop, Chorleywood and Gerrards Cross
Best Non-Specialist Independent Retailer of Greeting Cards – North
The Kitchen Range and Polkadot Gifts, Market Harborough
Best Non-Specialist Independent Retailer of Greeting Cards – South
UOE Store, nine stores
Best Greeting Card Small Multiple
Utility, Altrincham, Chester, Liverpool and Manchester
Best Department Store Retailer of Greeting Cards
Bradbeers, New Milton, Romsey and Salisbury
Best Supermarket Retailer of Greeting Cards
Tesco
Best Non-Specialist Multiple Retailer of Greeting Cards
Waterstones
Best Specialist Multiple Retailer of Greeting Cards (20+ branches)
Scribbler
Best Garden Centre Retailer of Greeting Cards – Independent
Archfield Walled Garden, Dirleton
Best Garden Centre Retailer of Greeting Cards – Multiple
Blue Diamond
Best Greeting Card Retailer Initiative
More Than Just A Gift, Narborough Hall for its Spring Campaign
Best Greeting Card Wholesaler
Jackson’s CRS, Sheffield
Greeting Card Retailer of the Year
Waterstones
