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Yee-haw… The Retas 2025 Finalists www.theretasawards.co.uk
After a rigorous canvassing of publishers, reps and agents for their retailer nominations and a thorough cajoling and encouraging greeting card retailers to enter The Retas, the finalists of this year’s 2025 greeting card retailers of the year can be revealed! The winners of these dedicated awards will be announced at a country and western-themed afternoon extravaganza on Thursday 3 July at the Grosvenor House Hotel, that will be attended by over 400 members of the greeting card community.
THE RETAS 2025 FINALISTS Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – London (inside the M25) Calladoodles, Carsharlton Earlybird Designs, Stoke Newington Flaxten Cards, Hornchurch and Upminster Medici Gallery, Kensington Moments, Wanstead Nor, Beckenham Place Park and West Norwood Pretty Shiny Shop, Finsbury Park and Oval Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – Home Counties & South East Clock Cards, Ware Inklings, Hungerford No 14, Ampthill Panda Cards, St Albans Red Card and Little Red, Petworth Southbourne Cards, Bournemouth Threads, Harpenden
Jane Armour Trading, Taunton Kingfisher Cards, Sidmouth Occasional Cards & Gifts, Kingsbridge Paper Gangsta, Bristol
Design@six, Wetherby Flippin’Eck, Guiseley Love & Best Wishes, Sheffield Send It With Love, Harrogate
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – Wales Cardiau Môn Cards, Amlwch Casa Green, Cardiff Creative Cove, Lampeter Daisy Daisy, Llanishen Paperweight, Cardiff Polka Dot Door, Penarth Serenade, Rhiwbina Village and Whitchurch
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – Scotland The Bay Tree, Edinburgh Bijou and JP Pozzi, Buckie and Elgin Cards and Gift Wrap, Bayble The Little Gift Shop, Beith Maia Gifts, Glasgow Papyrus, Glasgow Penny Black, Glasgow
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – The Midlands Austin & Co, Malvern Hugs & Kisses, Tettenhall In Heaven at Home, Market Harborough Lily Blue Gifts & Home, Hagley Set, Leicester Tokenhouse, Nottingham Wishes and Kisses, Sutton Coldfield
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – East Anglia Abigail’s and Just Cards, Dereham and Norwich The Card Centre, Felixstowe Chapmans, Southwold Creativity, Sheringham Dzodzo, Woodbridge Loveone, Ipswich Sincerely Yours, Hornchurch and Shenfield
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – North West England Bailey’s, Ainsdale, Crosby and Maghull Celebration Cards & Gifts, Lytham Celebrations, Carlisle Presentation Cards & Gifts, Barrowford Raffia, Clitheroe Reflections, Nantwich and Rugeley
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – South West Just Cards, Honiton Cards & Moor, Yelverton Highworth Emporium, Highworth
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – North East England Cards & Gifts, Dronfield Castle Cards, Barnard Castle Daisy Taylors, York
22 PROGRESSIVE GREETINGS WORLDWIDE
Best Greeting Card Retailer Newcomer (opened since Jan 2022 or are under new ownership) Branthwaites, Appleby Grace & Purpose, Hexham Helen’s Wishes, Dursley The Letter Arty, Manchester The Little Shop of Happiness, Kings Langley Nice Thoughts, Coleshill Popsicle, St Leonards Best Independent Bookstore Retailer Of Greeting Cards Carnforth Bookshop, Carnforth Chiltern Bookshops, Chorleywood and Gerrards Cross The Guisborough Bookshop, Guisborough The Hedgehog Bookshop, Penrith Petworth Books, Petworth Regency Bookshop, Surbiton Spencer Thorn, Bude