FINALISTS 2024

The finalists for The Retas 2024 are:

Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – London (inside M25)
Earlybird Designs, Stoke Newington
Flaxten Cards, Hornchurch and Upminster
The Indigo Tree, Crystal Palace and Streatham
The Loft, Teddington
Medici Gallery, Kensington
Nor, Beckenham Place Park and West Norwood
Pretty Shiny Shop, Finsbury Park and Oval

Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – Home Counties & South East
&Quirky, Berkhamsted
Gemini Greetings & House of Cards, Heathfield and Battle
Milford Cards & Gifts, Milford On Sea
Objectables, Folkestone
Paddock Wood Cards, Paddock Wood
Red Card, Petworth
Threads, Harpenden

Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – East Anglia
Cards ’N’ Things, Norwich
Chapmans, Southwold
Dzo Dzo, Woodbridge
The Pug & Pussycat, Aldeburgh
Simply Cards, Beccles
Sincerely Yours, Hornchurch and Shenfield
Spirals Cards, Gifts and Stationery, Brightlingsea

Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – South West
The Card Collection, Bath and Salisbury
The Card Gallery, Wimborne
Cilla & Camilla, Beaminster, Bridport
Expressions, Polkadot and Cats Whiskers, Swindon, Keynsham and Bishops Cleeve
Highworth Emporium, Highworth
PaperGangsta, Bristol
Sky, Clifton

Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – Wales
Creative Cove, Lampeter
Fancy That, Rhos-On-Sea
Occasions, Porth
Paperweight, Cardiff
Robyn’s Nest and Maple, Porthcawl
Stwff-Stuff, Llantwit Major
The Village Gift Box, Cardiff

Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – The Midlands
Atticusboo, Buxton
Austin & Co, Malvern
Blandfords, Broadway, Hereford and Ledbury
Country Kate, Kinver
Hugs & Kisses, Tettenhall
Set, Leicester
The Tokenhouse, Nottingham

Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – North West England
Bailey’s, Ainsdale, Crosby and Maghull
Presentation, Barrowford
Raffia, Clitheroe
Reflections, Nantwich and Rugeley
Wishes Of Cockermouth, Cockermouth
Zo & Co, Cheadle, Didsbury, Knutsford and Marple
 
Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – North East England
The Card Shop, Hexham
Castle Cards, Barnard Castle
Chirpy, Chapel Allerton
Greetings Of Haxby, Haxby
Strictland & Holt, Yarm
Who-Ray, Stockton-On-Tees

Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer – Scotland
The Bay Tree, two stores in Edinburgh
Ivad Home & Gifts, Paisley
JP Pozzi and Bijou, Buckie and Elgin
Paper Tiger, Edinburgh
Penny Black, Glasgow
Polka Dot and Polka Dot Too, Castle Douglas

Best Greeting Card Retailer Newcomer (opened since Jan 2021)
Cards & Moor, Yelverton
Casa Green, Cardiff
Doodles Cards, Gifts & Balloons, Crowthorne
Fig & Fox, Romsey
Helen’s Wishes, Dursley
The Letter Arty, Manchester
Serendipity, Hale
 
Best Independent Bookstore Retailer Of Greeting Cards
The Aldeburgh Bookshop, Aldeburgh
The Book House, Thame
Bookends, Christchurch
Chiltern Bookshops, Chorleywood and Gerrards Cross
The Guisborough Bookshop, Guisborough
Kemps General Store & Bookshop, Malton

Best Non-Specialist Independent Retailer Of Greeting Cards – North
O’Brien’s Pharmacy & Newsagents, Magherfelt
Curiouser & Curiouser, two shops in Edinburgh
Denstone Hall Farm Shop & Café, Denstone
Easton Walled Gardens, Grantham
The Hollies, Little Budworth and Lower Stretton
Proudfoots Group, Eastfield, Manham Hill, Newby, Seamer
Utility, Liverpool and Manchester

Best Non-Specialist Independent Retailer Of Greeting Cards – South
Dart’s Farm, Topsham
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich
French Grey Interiors, Bath, Cirencester, Clifton Village, Malmsbury and Tetbury
Little Boat Gifts, Brightlingsea
Stationery House, Clevedon, Somerton and Wrington
Trago Mills, Merthyr, Liskeard and Newton Abbot

Best Greeting Card Small Multiple (4-20 stores)
Henry & Co, 9 stores in the Midlands
House of Cards, 7 stores in the Home Counties
Lark, 19 stores in London and South East
Mooch London, 4 stores in London
Postmark, 14 stores in London, Birmingham and Glasgow
Smart Ideas, 7 stores in the Midlands
Temptation Gifts, 7 stores in the Home Counties

Best Department Store Retailer Of Greeting Cards
Barkers, Northallerton
Fortnum & Mason, London
Jarrolds, Norwich
John Lewis & Partners, 36 stores in the UK
Liberty
Morleys Group, eight stores in London and the South
Selfridges, London, Birmingham and Manchester

Best Supermarket Retailer Of Greeting Cards
Asda
Booths
Morrisons
Sainsbury’s
Tesco
Waitrose & Partners

Best Non-Specialist Multiple Retailer Of Greeting Cards
Marks & Spencer
National Trust
Oliver Bonas
Ryman/Ryman Design
TK Maxx
Waterstones
WHSmith/Curi.o.city

Best Specialist Multiple Retailer Of Greeting Cards (20+ stores)
Cardfactory, 1000+ stores
Cards Direct, 60+ stores
Cards Galore, 28 stores
Cardzone/Clintons, 340+ stores
Scribbler, 33 stores

Best Garden Centre Retailer Of Greeting Cards – independent
Bents, Warrington
Burford Garden Centre, Burford
Garsons, Esher and Titchfield
Okells Garden Centre, Tarporley
Webbs, Frilford, West Hagley and Wychbold,
Yarnton Home & Garden, Yarnton

Best Garden Centre Retailer Of Greeting Cards – multiple or group (5 or more centres)
Blue Diamond, 40+ centres nationwide
British Garden Centres, 60+ centres nationwide
Haskins, 5 centres in the south
Longacres, 5 centres in the south
Notcutts, 19 centres across the UK
Otter Garden Centres, 7 garden centres in the South West
RHS, 5 centres across the UK

Best Independent Greeting Card Retailer Initiative (for a specific project or initiative undertaken by a retailer since 15 April, 2023)
Cardies, Stevenage, for its community campaigns
Celebrations, Carlisle, for its Boofle 15th anniversary campaign
Helen’s Wishes, Dursley, for its Thinking Of You Week hidden cards
House of Cards, Home Counties, for its Festive Friday Friends & Family Event
Presentation, Barrowford, for its Mother’s Day and Easter charity initiative with Open Door
Red Card, Petworth, for its Gifting Tree and Jingle Bells charity initiatives with Petworth Cottage Nursing Home and Petworth Foodbank
Stationery Supplies, Marple and Wilmslow, for its Christmas Card Writing Event

Best Greeting Card Wholesaler
Archway Cards, Norwich
BGC, 11 branches nationwide
Crosswear Trading, Enfield
Greetings House, Walsall
Jackson’s, Sheffield
The Jade Group, Lindford

Greeting Card Retailer of the Year
All winners of The Retas 2024 categories are contenders for this award.