Blue Rose Gifts & Balloons makes it into the Nationwide Greeting Card Retailing Awards Finals

Beverley Heyworth and Elaine Hopkins of Blue Rose Gifts and Balloons

Blue Rose Gifts & Balloons have reached the finals in The Retas 2017 greeting card retailer awards.

The owner of Blue Rose Gifts & Balloons, Beverley Heyworth said: “The nomination alone is great but to be in the top six retailers is awesome and we are so excited. Our customers mean everything to us and this is in recognition of their support and what we strive to do for them day in day out on their behalf.”

Jakki Brown, editor and co-owner of Progressive Greetings magazine, which organises The Retas Awards said: “The sending of greeting cards is an engrained part of UK culture, with the British public spending an unprecedented £1.7 billion on greeting cards in the last year alone.

“The nation leads the world in greeting card design and sends more cards per capita (30 cards per person) – and The Retas Awards celebrate the very finest greeting card retail stockists in the UK.”

All Retas finalists were decided as a result of an industry-wide poll of greeting card suppliers, reps and agents and validated by a panel of experts.

The winners of this year’s greeting card retailing awards - The Retas 2017 – will be revealed at an Awards lunch at the glamorous Dorchester Hotel on London on Wednesday 12 July.

The Awards recognise and celebrate not only the top independent and multiple greeting card retailers regionally and nationally, but also outstanding retail employees.

These dedicated awards for retailers have risen immeasurably in status over the last decade and are now universally acknowledged as being true accolades of excellence.

The Retas Awards, now in their 13th year, were launched by Progressive Greetings magazine to recognise and reward the UK’s very best greeting card retailers from right across the retail spectrum. Greeting cards are sold in one in six shops in the UK, reaching the finals of The Retas is a notable achievement.