The entry deadline for the Grocer Gold Awards 2025 has been extended to Monday, 17 March.
With many submissions still coming in, the search for this year’s winners will now be open for an additional two weeks, giving retailers and fmcg brands extra time to submit their entry to one – or more – of the 27 self-entry categories.
This year’s awards include a new category, created to recognise the social impact initiative of the year.
The new accolade will recognise the outstanding work of food and drink retailers, wholesalers, suppliers, social enterprises, charities and NGOs, whose campaigns and initiatives are helping to achieve sustainable societal and behavioural change, improving lives and benefiting local communities.
More than 30 awards will be handed out at the Royal Albert Hall on 8 July 2025, a celebration of individual and collective achievement across the food and drink industry’s diverse range of sectors, disciplines, categories and channels.
Read more: What it takes to win at the Grocer Gold Awards
There are 11 industry awards for grocery retailers, wholesalers and suppliers; eight awards for brands and products; six initiative awards and four people awards, including Employer of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Store Manager of the Year and The Grocer Cup for outstanding industry achievement.
The final two categories are decided through use of exclusive, proprietary third-party data: Britain’s Favourite Supermarket (sponsored by NIQ) and The Grocer 33 awards for service, availability and price (sponsored by Assosia).
With the rigorous and extensive judging process due to take place in early May, the 2025 shortlist will be published on 9 May.
CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE GROCER GOLD AWARDS 2025
The headline sponsor once again is AlixPartners, the financial advisory and global consulting firm, while new sponsors for 2025 include KPMG, Encirc and VusionGroup.
At last year’s Grocer Gold Awards Sainsbury’s won the prestigious Grocer of the Year for the first time in almost 20 years, despite Tesco dominating the night and winning seven awards in total, including employer of the year and online retailer of the year.
Other winners on the night included Procter & Gamble, Vadasz, Moth, Fever-Tree, Henderson and JJ Foodservice. The Grocer Cup was won by Greggs CEO Roisin Currie. The Entrepreneur of the Year was Pip Murray from Pip & Nut.
The Gold Awards ceremony itself will take place on Tuesday 8 July. To enter, for sponsorship opportunities, and to buy tickets see thegrocergoldawards.co.uk.
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