Port Erin's Mantons Cards has been selected as a finalist in The Greats, The Gift Retailer of the Year Awards, for an incredible sixth time!
Mantons is one of only six companies from across the UK to make the final. As well as other independent retailers, Mantons is also competing against national chains to be named as The Greats Awards winner.
The Greats Awards, now in their 15th year, were launched to recognise and reward the UK's very best gift retailers across the retail spectrum. Greats finalist are chosen by a panel of gift trade experts and based on the quality of products stocked, customer service, product displays, and marketing.
"With all the re-generation currently affecting Port Erin, this is a fantastic motivation for the Mantons team and hopefully helps to show that Port Erin is still very much open for business" commented owner Chris Beards.
"After winning a Retas award as the UK's best greeting card shop, everyone at Mantons is delighted to again be named as a Greats Finalist, especially as we are the only Manx company to ever achieve this honour. This is well deserved recognition for all our team's hard work and commitment to help our customers, which is something all of the us at Mantons take pride in".
"Having previously won separate awards for our customer service, product selection, marketing and window displays, it is fantastic to be recognised by the UK's only gift awards that consider every aspect of our shop, especially as 2017 is Mantons 30th Anniversary" continued Chris.
"These dedicated awards for gift retailers have immeasurable status and are universally acknowledged as being a true accolade of excellence," commented Sue Marks, editor of Progressive Gifts & Home. "Being selected as a finalist is a fantastic achievement, as Mantons is competing against some outstanding, first class businesses."
Since 2010 Mantons has won sixteen national awards including the British Independent Retailers Association's 'Independent Retailer of the Year', plus being named as one of the top 100 small businesses in the UK in 2015 and winning the BIRA Hero Award for fundraising and community work in 2016.
The winners of this year’s prestigious gift retailing awards, The Greats 2017, will be revealed at an Awards lunch at the glamorous Grosvenor Hotel in London on Thursday 4th May so everyone at Mantons will be hoping its seventeenth time lucky.
Photo - Chris Beards with BIRA trophy.
