Sunday 28th January saw the return of the annual Health Stores Ireland/New Natural Business retailer awards where Irish retailers received due recognition for their resilience and innovation in these challenging times.
On the day, eighteen awards spanning seven categories were handed to Ireland’s natural health retailers at the ‘Putting Our Best Foot Forward’ event in Shannon, County Clare.
There were also plenty of opportunities for networking, as well as panel discussions and sectoral awards, with 40 trade exhibitors and over 100 retailer participants representing more than 60 health food shops.
These are the results:
Innovation & Business Development
- Well & Good, Middleton – WINNER
- Licorice, Portumna & Natures Hand, Limerick – SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS
Training & Education
- Organico, Bantry – WINNER
- Bee Healthy, Monaghan & Remedies, Dungarvan – SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS
Community Engagement
- Healthy Vision, Roscrea – WINNER
- Bee Healthy, Monaghan & Nice & Natural, Cootehill – SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS
Local Producer Champion
- The Aloe Tree, Ennistymon – WINNER
- Loop de Loop, Castletownbere & Simple Simon’s, Donegal – SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS
Environmental Initiatives
- Healing Harvest, Kinvara – WINNER
- Open Sesame, Gort & Only Natural, Wexford – SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS
Digital Marketing & Social Media
- Horan’s, Tralee – WINNER
- Organico, Bantry – SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS
New Store
- Here’s Health, Cork – WINNER
Image – Winners in the New Natural Business/Health Stores Ireland Retailer Awards – L-R Deirdre Murphy, Horans Healthstores; Dorothy Browne, Nice & Natural; Sally Smith, Open Sesame; Shirley Sheil, Healthy Vision; Tessa Badenhurst, The Aloe Tree; Hannah Dare, Organico; Jill Bell, Well & Good; Lorin Taylor, Licorice Healthstore; Linda Barry, Nature’s Hand; Olivia Cahalane, The Health Connection.
