The cream of the UK’s multi-channel retail sector gathered together on 4th June at the exclusive Hurlingham Club, London for the greatly anticipated ECMOD
Direct Commerce Awards.
Twenty five companies
were commended at a glittering ceremony presented by Sky News anchor Dermot
Murnaghan. The popular event aims to recognise the hard work, flair and
commitment of businesses in the catalogue and multichannel retail sector.
This year’s winners are:
| Annual Sales of up to £5 million B2C | Sarah Raven |
| Annual Sales of up to £5 million B2B | Fire Label Merchandising |
| Annual Sales of £5 – £15 million B2C | Frugi |
| Annual Sales of £5 – £15 million B2B | ESE Direct |
| Annual Sales of £15 – £30 million B2C | Scotts of Stow |
| Annual Sales of £15 – £30 million B2B | Ironmongery Direct |
| Annual Sales of over £50 million B2C | Hotter (Beaconsfield Footwear) |
| Children’s sector | Great Little Trading Company |
| Womenswear & accessories | Artigiano |
| Menswear & accessories | The Coolmore Collection |
| Home including Food & Wine | Bloom |
| Gardening & Outdoors | Armstrong Direct |
| Gifts, Gadgets, Hobbies, Home Entertainment | Home Leisure Direct |
| Luxury Brands | Madeleine |
| Charity Trading | Macmillan Cancer Support |
| Industrial & Warehouse Supplies | Slingsby |
| Hotel, Catering, Facilities Management Equipment & Supplies | Simon Jersey |
| Education, Teaching & Training Products | SpaceKraft |
| Best Catalogue Creative & Production | OKA |
| Best Overall Website | Sarah Raven |
| Best Mobile Commerce Execution | House of Fraser |
| Best Exploitation of Technology – sales up to £25 million | Sportpursuit |
| Best Exploitation of Technology – sales over £25 million | Mister Spex/Intershop |
| Outstanding Customer Service B2C | Railbookers |
| Outstanding Customer Service B2B | Seton |
| Direct Commerce Readers’ Award | Bureau Direct |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Andrew Nisbet |
A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented
to Andrew Nisbet the founder of Nisbets in recognition of his success in developing one of the most respected business to business multichannel operations which is active in the UK and overseas. This very special award has, to date, been bestowed upon
ten previous winners in the history of the awards. Recipients of the title
are: Christopher Nieper of David Nieper Ltd, Chrissie Rucker of The White
Company, Nick Wheeler of Charles Tyrwhitt, Johnnie Boden of Boden, Peter Harris
& Angus Thirwell, joint founders of Hotel Chocolat, Fran Cotton & Steve
Smith joint founders of Cotton Traders, Jim Martin of N Brown Group, the late
Michelle Kershaw of Lakeland Limited, Sir David Jones of Next PLC, Tony
Laithwaite of Direct Wines and Nigel Swabey of Scotts & Co.
The competition for all categories was fierce and although not crowned as eventual winners, the following companies were highly commended by the panel of
independent ECMOD Direct Commerce Awards judges:
Bonmarche
Dafiti & Metail
House of Holland & Metail
Lovehoney
Original Gift Company
Ottolenghi
Primrose
Seasalt
Wall London
Weird Fish
Worldstores – Runner up – Direct Commerce Readers’ Award
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