Bestway Wholesale, the UK’s largest independent food and drink wholesaler, announced the winners of The Bestway Awards 2023 – its newly brought together Retail Development Awards (RDA’s) and Bestway Performance Awards (BPA’s) – at a prestigious ceremony at London’s Marriot Hotel on Park Lane last night, 2 November 2023.
As part of Bestway’s inspirational Retail Development Programme, the Retail Development Awards have historically celebrated outstanding achievements and business successes from Bestway Retail and independent retailers up and down the country. These no longer run as they were replaced by the Retail Showcase in 2023.
The Bestway Awards are open to all employees within the Bestway family – from drivers, pickers, telesales teams, store and depot colleagues to office-based colleagues and departments. And everyone across retail and wholesale is invited to participate and nominate a colleague that has shown exemplary behaviour or outstanding achievements.
The Awards – an integral part of the company’s colleague recognition programme – shines a light on those who go above and beyond in providing excellent service to customers.
These new Bestway Awards allows the business to celebrate with both its retailers and colleagues and suppliers (we also have supplier awards) all together at the same time. The new categories and winners are as follows and include colleague awards, retailer awards and supplier awards:
WINNERS:
Colleague Awards – Bestway Values:
- We are one family: Jane Mulroy – Central Operations Depot
- Everyone voice matters: Dhurmesh Vekaria – Central Income Controller
- Champion what’s right: Andy Wildman, Customer Sales Representative, BW Vans
- Be proud of what you do: Koral O’Keefe, Marketing Manager, BRL
Colleague Awards:
- Office Colleague: Valentina Ferlanti, Business Analyst, IT
- Field Colleague: Lucy Smith, Regional Manager, Bestway Retail
- Depot Colleague: David McKenry, Operations Manager, Follingsby Depot, Gateshead
- Store Colleague: Jessica Hollingworth, Bargain Booze Store Manager, Market Drayton
- Depot Of The Year: Bestway, Croydon
- Store Of The Year: Costcutter, Canford Cliffs
Supplier Awards:
- Best Use Of Data: Imperial Tobacco
- Best C&C Initiative: Joint Winners: AG Bar and KP Snacks
- Best Retail Initiative: JTI
- Best Supply Chain Management & Service: Nestle Purina, Rowntree and SC4 Grocery
- Supplier Of The Year: Coca-Cola European Partners
- Best Digital Initiative: Imperial Tobacco
Retailer Awards:
- Drinks Retailer Of The Year: Bargain Booze Wigan
- Grocery Retailer Of The Year: Campbells of Leyburn
- Tobacco / Vape Retailer Of The Year: Ocean Trading Ltd, Addlestone
- Soft Drinks Retailer Of The Year: Global Food and Wine, Wanstead
- Impulse Retailer Of The Year: Best-One – Avondale Stores Ltd, Widnes
- Food-To-Go Retailer Of The Year: Rootes Grocery Store, Warwick
- Fresh Produce Retailers Of The Year: Triple A Foodhall – Nuneaton
- Independent Retailer Of The Year: New Zealand Wines, Manchester
- Pet Retailer Of The Year: Feedem, Guisborough
The awards evening saw Bestway colleagues, independent retailers, members of the Bestway Retail symbol group members (Best-one, Bargain Booze and Costcutter), and Bestway Wholesale’s Xtra Local Retail Club as well as key supply partners, come together to showcase and recognise exemplars of best practice and growth, seen over the past year.The winners of the awards are chosen by colleagues from across the Bestway business, demonstrating the ‘everyone’s voice matters’ ethos of the business, which emphasises the importance of colleagues and retailers recognising each other and their achievements together.
The awards were presented by Dawood Pervez, Managing Director, Bestway Wholesale, Kenton Burchell, Group Trading Director, Bestway Wholesale, Jamie Davison, Retail Director, Bestway Retail and Naser Khan
Bestway Wholesale Managing Director, Dawood Pervez, who opened the ceremony explained why the business has taken the decision to join together the awards:
“We have brought our Retail Development Awards and Bestway Performance Awards together as the two are intrinsically linked.
“Our retailers’ success are our teams’ success – together we grow, and together we innovate, and it feels appropriate to recognise the power of teamwork as we invest in the future and in the growth of our respective businesses.
“Here at Bestway, we have a profound commitment to growing together and supporting the local communities we serve, whether that be you our retailers and your own customers – or our colleagues, who make it all possible.”
For further information on Bestway Wholesale, please visit www.bestwaywholesale.co.uk and for information on Bestway Retail, please visit www.bestwayretail.co.uk
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