ZURICH, 2015-9-2 — /EPR Retail News/ — Die Migros und der M-Industriebetrieb Mifa AG gewinnen den Swiss Packaging Award in der Kategorie Nachhaltigkeit. Die Fachjury hat sie für ihre innovativen Sprühflaschen von Reinigungsprodukten ausgezeichnet.
Ausgezeichnet: Migros gewinnt Swiss Packaging Award
Mit dem Award zeichnet das Schweizerische Verpackungsinstitut (SVI), die Dachorganisation der Schweizerischen Verpackungsindustrie, herausragende Leistungen im Verpackungswesen…
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Gothenburg, Sweden, 2015-9-1 — /EPR Retail News/ — The winner for best design idea and collection has been chosen amongst the graduates from Borås School of Textiles. The graduation show and announcement of the winner was held at Fashion Week Stockholm. The winner is Josephine Runquist who took the prize with her collection ‘Change in…
Verbraucher Initiative: Mehrfach-Auszeichnung für Unternehmen der REWE Group
Köln, Deutschland, 2015-8-31— /EPR Retail News/ — Die Vertriebslinien REWE, PENNY und toom Baumarkt haben bei der von der Verbraucher Initiative e.V. durchgeführten CSR-Unternehmensbefragung für ihr nachhaltiges Engagement jeweils in ihrer Kategorie den Spitzenplatz erreicht. Sie tragen nun die Auszeichnung „Nachhaltiges Einzelhandelsunternehmen 2015“ und erhalten dafür die Gold-Medaille. Damit…
Sustainability is focus of H&M event at KTH
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, 2015-8-27— /EPR Retail News/ — The H&M Conscious Foundation launched the first-ever Global Change Award (GCA) at an exclusive event in the main library at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm the 25th of August.
About 120 professionals within fashion, research and innovation were invited to…
Company lauded for ‘setting a standard for grocery stores’ and for ‘continually pushing for change’
AUSTIN, Texas, 2015-8-24— /EPR Retail News/ — In its new ranking of 50 companies that “Change the World,” Fortune magazine recognizes Whole Foods Market for “doing well by doing good.” The company ranks No. 30 on the list, which will appear in the…
The library in Citycon’s shopping centre Kista Galleria has been awarded the "Public Library of the Year Award 2015". Since the library moved to Kista Galleria in August 2014, visits to the library have increased by 300% and book loans have doubled.
Helsinki, FINLAND, 2015-8-19— /EPR Retail News/ — "Partnerships with stakeholders in the local…
Salt Lake City, UT, 2015-8-13— /EPR Retail News/ — Kaylee Hudson from Macey’s Spanish Fork has won the 2015 title of Utah’s Best Bagger at Utah Food Industry Association’s Annual Best Bagger Competition.
Hudson, a seventeen year-old senior at Spanish Fork High School will receive $500 and the opportunity to represent Utah at the National Grocers Association’s best…
Year-on-year growth in entries has seen the New World Wine Awardsbecome one of New Zealand’s leading wine shows, with a record 1,332 entries this year.
At this scale, the independent judging panel of 13 wine experts will be required to blind-taste up to 120 wines each per day over three days from 3-5 August.
Auckland,…
EHI Retail Institute award
Paderborn, Germany, 2015-8-6— /EPR Retail News/ — The “Top Supplier Retail” award was conferred this year by the EHI Retail Institute in Cologne for the first time.
This new award honors the entire range of excellent services and solutions that an IT partner makes available to retail businesses. Wincor Nixdorf was named a…
Bradford, England, 2015-8-3— /EPR Retail News/ — Morrisons has been crowned 2015 Supermarket of the Year at the International Wine Challenge Awards (IWC), beating off stiff competition from Waitrose and M&S (winners in 2013 and 2014).
The IWC merchant awards are considered the ‘Oscars’ of wine retail and are amongst the most prestigious in the wine world.
The IWC…
LONDON, 2015-7-31 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sainsbury's has been named in the top band of UK companies for sourcing timber and timber products responsibly. The WWF scorecard ranks companies from 'zero trees' which means a company has not yet shown any progress on sustainable timber up to ' three trees' which is where Sainsbury's…
International Pretzel Franchise Claims a Top Spot on Prestigious Ranking
LANCASTER, Pa., 2015-7-28 — /EPR Retail News/ — Entrepreneur magazine has named Auntie Anne's® one of the country’s top global franchises. The iconic soft pretzel company ranks among the top franchises expanding internationally as part of the annual Top Global Franchise list, a comprehensive selection of the top…
HONG KONG, 2015-7-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — In the latest 14th Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) Asia Pacific Conference, A.S. Watson Group was honored with the ECR Recognition Award in the Digital category, in recognition of its outstanding achievements in digital and eCommerce. Organised by the ECR Asia Pacific Council, GS1/ ECR Hong Kong and co-organised…
Foodstuffs has triumphed at the annual Reader's Digest Most Trusted Brand Awards, once again winning the two top prizes for their category.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, 2015-7-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — PAK’nSAVE has won the competitive Most Trusted Supermarket honour, New World the highly commended runner up in that category and Pams won the Most Trusted Home…
Two Foodstuffs supermarkets have taken home top awards at New Zealand’s biggest food competition, the 19th annual Bakels New Zealand Supreme Pie Awards.
Auckland, New Zealand, 2015-7-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — Foodstuffs bakers triumphed in two categories and won the overall Supreme Pie Award.
A humble potato top pie from New World Greenmeadows, Napier, won New…
Pasay City, Philippines, 2015-7-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — SM Investments Corporation (SM) bagged five awards from Alpha Southeast Asia magazine based on a poll of investors.
SM topped four categories under the 5th Annual Southeast Asia’s Institutional Investor Awards for Corporates. These are Most Organised Investor Relations for the fifth year in a row; Best Senior…
CHESHUNT, England, 2015-7-20 — /EPR Retail News/ — Last night (16 July, 2015), Tesco wines were declared ‘Own Label Range’ of the year, at the 2015 International Wine Challenge (IWC) Awards Ceremony. Held at London’s Hilton Park Lane Hotel, the annual award ceremony, considered by many as ‘The Oscars’ of the wine industry, was attended by…
America’s Healthiest Grocery Store® earns highest score in report’s history for stringent purchasing policies, transparency and advocating for industry change
AUSTIN, Texas, 2015-7-17 — /EPR Retail News/ — For the third consecutive year, Greenpeace named Whole Foods Market the top retailer for seafood sustainability in the nonprofit’s annual ranking of U.S. supermarkets. The company earned the highest…
LONDON, 2015-7-17 — /EPR Retail News/ — Kingfisher, the international home improvement company, has been given the seal of approval by the design industry after receiving several awards for innovative product design. In France, the jury of the ‘Observeur du Design’ 2016 Awards gave a winner’s ‘label’ to four of Kingfisher’s products, including a MacAllister…
Richard Stones crowned Field Sales Champion 2015
DUBLIN, Ireland, 2015-7-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — Topaz, the country’s leading fuels and convenience retailer, picked up two of the key awards at the Irish Sales Champion awards 2015 which took place at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin recently.
Richard Stones, Topaz Dealer Business Manager NI/North East, picked up…
All six winners will spend five days with Sir Richard Branson on his private island
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, 2015-7-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — Shopify Inc. (“Shopify”) (NYSE: SHOP, TSX: SH), — a leading cloud-based commerce platform, today announced the winners of its Build a Business Competition. Over the course of eight months, tens of thousands of new businesses…
Pasay City, Philippines, 2015-7-13 — /EPR Retail News/ — Property conglomerate SM Prime Holdings’ mall brand, SM Supermalls was cited by Reader’s Digest as one of the most valued and preferred shopping mall brands in the Philippines for the fourth year in a row. To add to the distinction, SM Supermalls was the only awardee for…
SEATTLE, 2015-7-10 — /EPR Retail News/ — Starbucks China president Belinda Wong is recognized for her leadership on a new 2015 ranking of Forbes top 100 women in business in China.
Wong is 41 on the list which includes Sun Yafang, the chairperson of board of HUAWEI Technologies CO. LTD as the top of the list.…
SINGAPORE, 2015-7-9 — /EPR Retail News/ — Shone in the latest SRA (Singapore Retail Association) Service Excellence Awards (EXSA), Watsons Singapore was recognized as the No. 1 Health & Beauty Retailer in Singapore and won the 2nd place of the Best Retailer Award. Stepping into its 20thanniversary, the EXSA is a national award that recognizes…
LANCASTER, Pa., 2015-7-8 — /EPR Retail News/ — Auntie Anne’s, the world’s largest hand-rolled soft pretzel franchisor, recently recongnized several franchisees for exceeding the "Pretzel Perfect" standard.
Earlier this summer, Auntie Anne’s presented prestigious awards to franchise owners and stores across the country to recognize their hard work and dedication to the Auntie Anne’s system. The…
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, 2015-7-7 — /EPR Retail News/ — Nine Hy-Vee, Inc. employees were recently recognized for their excellence after winning industry competitions.
Hy-Vee employees in various positions were honored during the annual FMI Connect conference in Chicago, one of the industry’s largest trade shows, hosted by the Food Marketing Institute last month.
Brian Wilken, store director at…
Saskatoon, Canada, 2015-7-3 — /EPR Retail News/ — Federated Co-operatives Limited’s (FCL) record revenue in 2014 has placed it in the top 50 of the Financial Post Magazine’s rankings of the 500 largest companies in Canada for the third year in a row.
Based on 2014 financial results, FCL earned $10.8 billion in revenue, an increase…
SEATTLE, 2015-6-26 — /EPR Retail News/ — In autumn of 2012, a “for lease” sign appeared in the window of art supply store that was going out of business.
The aging building on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, built nearly a century ago, was once a showroom for luxury automobiles and the crown jewel of the city’s auto…
Rochester, NY, 2015-6-25 — /EPR Retail News/ — On June 22, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized Wegmans Food Markets as an outstanding Safer Choice Retailer. The award, presented in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, was accepted by Wegmans Category Merchant for cleaning products, Dave Tantillo, and Wegmans Sustainability…
LONDON, 2015-6-16 — /EPR Retail News/ — SPAR UK has won the 2015 NACS Insight European Technology Implementation Award, sponsored by Verifone Inc. The award was presented during the NACS Insight Convenience Summit – Europe in London on June 11.
The award recognizes SPAR UK for excellence in the implementation of innovative and outstanding IT solutions within…