North East sausage roll champion Greggs has been named the 海角视频鈥檚 best retailer at a top industry event.
The Newcastle maker of the vegan sausage roll recently unveiled a stellar set of results for 2019, growing sales 13.5% to 拢1,167.9m and sharing in its success with staff by giving them a record annual profit-share payment of 拢12.8m, on top of a special one-off dividend of 拢7m announced in January.
Now the firm has added to its financial success with more industry recognition, beating the likes of Aldi, Matalan, Primark, Sainsbury鈥檚 and Tesco to win two trophies at the 2020 Retail Week Awards.
The Retail Week Awards 2020 is a symbol of excellence in the retail sector, providing a platform for industry-wide recognition and a celebration of outstanding work.
The firm was voted best retailer over 拢250m and value retailer of the year at the London event.
Judges were wowed by the launch of Greggs鈥檚 now famous vegan sausage roll in January 2019, which caused queues out of store doors up and down the country, as well as its work to become the go-to bakery for penny-conscious shoppers looking for food on the go.
The win comes five months after Greggs won the brand of the year award at the prestigious Marketing Week Masters Awards 2019, beating competition from the likes of Netflix and Cadbury鈥檚 to triumph, as well as being recognised as Britain鈥檚 Most Admired Company 2019 in the Management Today awards.
Roger Whiteside, Greggs chief executive, said: 鈥淲e were delighted to be recognised by our peers as best retailer over 拢250m and best value retailer at this year鈥檚 Retail Week Awards.
鈥淎t Greggs the greatest reward for us is having customers who come back time and time again.
鈥淭hese awards are true recognition of our hard-working, brilliant people, so I鈥檇 like to take this opportunity to say thank you to those colleagues 鈥 all 25,000 of them!鈥
Poppie Mickleburgh, Retail Week Awards event director, said: 鈥淕reggs should be very proud of its double win at this year鈥檚 awards. The company has built a huge fan base with British shoppers and become something of a national treasure over the past few years while tapping into big trends like veganism.
鈥淲ell done, team Greggs 鈥 keep up the great work!鈥
Mike Green, senior area vice-president and 海角视频 head of retail at headline sponsor Salesforce, said: 鈥淕reggs is a retailer that is revolving and evolving around the shopper, in that they are listening to their customers and delivering what they need, want and desire.
鈥淲orthy winners in a challenging and changing environment.鈥
