Specsavers
Retailer of the Year Award

As the UK’s most trusted brand of opticians, as voted by Readers Digest for the past seven years running, Specsavers has a commitment to provide the best possible optical service in the retail sector and so are delighted be the title sponsor of the inaugural 2008 Specsavers everywoman in Retail Awards. For further information about Specsavers, log on to www.specsavers.co.uk

BT
Director of the Year Award

BT Expedite is the retail specialist division of BT, providing solutions to more than 75 of Europe's leading retailers: streamlining processes, optimising information, and meeting the evolving expectations of today’s multichannel shoppers. At BT we value diversity, we believe it makes us stronger, and we are proud sponsors of this inaugural everywoman in Retail Awards ceremony. www.btexpedite.com

Canary Wharf Group PLC
Store Manager of the Year

Canary Wharf is a prime business district with a daily working population of 93,000. Over 200 shops, cafes, bars, restaurants, services and amenities sit within 740,000 sq ft of retail space. Principally within four shopping malls - Cabot Place, Canada Place, Jubilee Place and Churchill Place - it has been designed to cater for both residential and working populations. The malls are open seven days a week, with late night shopping on Thursdays and Fridays.

IBM
Hidden Talent of the Year Award

IBM is delighted and proud to sponsor everywoman. As a company in the business of helping other companies innovate, IBM understands the importance of female entrepreneurs and business leaders, in terms of their contribution to the economy and their achievements in the broader business arena. IBM supports networking and mentoring initiatives, provides expert advice and technology solutions for growing businesses, delivers superior customer experiences and drives operational excellence. www.ibm.com/retail

Make Your Mark
Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Make Your Mark is the national campaign to unlock the UK’s enterprise potential and encourages women across the UK to turn their ideas into reality.

Penna
Inspiration of the Year Award

Penna is one of Europe's largest providers of Human Capital Management solutions.

We help leading organisations achieve bottom line improvement through the performance of their people. From attraction through to career transition, we bring together expertise across the entire employment life cycle.We are a flexible, agile business with a network of UK and International offices and our approach is tailored and solutions-based.Through our core areas of expertise, we deliver tangible, measurable results. Recruitment Communications, Executive Recruitment, Executive Interim, Board & Executive Coaching, Human Resource Consulting, Career Transition. We work with 60% of the FTSE 100 as well as some of the highest profile public sector bodies. Our team includes specialists from Financial Services, Technology, Media & Telecoms, Retail, FMCG, Healthcare, Energy & Utilities and Central & Local Government. Penna is proud to support the Inspiration of the Year Award.

Women in Retail
Buyer of the Year Award

Women in Retail is a membership organisation dedicated to senior women in the retail sector. We are committed to enabling our members to realise their personal and professional potential through networking and individual development. We work collaboratively across the sector providing coaching and mentoring schemes, raising awareness of career opportunities and encouraging young talent into the sector.  Our aim is to provide an infrastructure for advice, support and development to senior women within the industry. www.womeninretail.com

Drapers

Drapers has a policy of encouraging talent at all levels of the fashion retail industry and we were delighted to be asked to support the Everywoman Women in Retail Awards. The vast majority of fashion retailer's customers are women and yet so few women are to be found at the head of fashion retailers - this needs to be addressed.

Blackwell

Blackwell has been supplying specialist publications and academic books for over 130 years. We have 50 stores around the UK (90 with Connects) stocking a wide range of books, CDs, DVDs, stationery, cards and gifts. Visit us at www.blackwell.co.uk where you can locate your nearest store or browse over three million books online. Blackwell is the largest medical book supplier and retailer in the UK. Whatever the subject we have it covered.

The Body Shop

The Body Shop International, founded by the inspirational Dame Anita Roddick 30 years ago, has always celebrated the passion and talents of women in all walks of life.

Thanks to our Community Trade programme, women across the globe have the opportunity to earn their own fair wage and increase their sense of standing in the community.

We are delighted to support The Specsavers Everywoman In Retail Awards in recognition of all female workers. To learn more about us and treat yourself to our products go to www.thebodyshop.com.

BT

BT Business works with over 1.1 million small to medium sized companies across the UK, providing a range of IT and communications support. This ranges from telephony services, mobile technologies and web-based services, through to IT support and advice on how to develop a full-blown e-business strategy.

The services are designed to look past headline offers, creating solutions that deliver real benefits and value for money. Combined they help take the hassle out of IT and communications, allowing small business owners and managers to do what they do best and manage their businesses.

For more information on how BT Business can help your business, please go to www.bt.com/insight

Rooks Rider

After being associated with the everywoman Awards for a number of years With Women in Mind are delighted to be a part of the inaugural everywoman Retail Awards. The group is an exclusive networking group primarily for professional and entrepreneurial women hosted by law firm, Rooks Rider www.rooksrider.co.uk.

As solicitors, we frequently advise on all aspects related to the retail sector and feel it is important that success is recognised in a public forum such as this. We look forward to more events of this nature and are proud to continue to support everywoman.

Vodafone

"We are very proud of the achievements of both Jude and Katrina. Their hard work and dedication shines through not only in their individual successes but also in those of their team. They are great ambassadors for Vodafone and highlight just what can be achieved with some ingenuity and determination. We wish them well for the awards!"

www.vodafone.co.uk
www.faceofvodafone.co.uk

Asda

Argos

The Co-operative

First Friday

Sainsburys

Méthode Jeanne Piaubert

Méthode Jeanne Piaubert is a world renowned revolutionary skin and body care specialist dedicated to targeting the problems and complaints of women. Jeanne Piaubert was an innovative scientist who realized the potential electrotherapy held for women. She devoted her life to enhancing feminine beauty and in 1928 “The Méthode” of “Active Dermoplastics” was born and the first salon opened. Today the brand is one of the most successful skin and body care specialists.

Ombre Rose

Jean-Charles Brosseau is an active and energetic milliner whose fashion career has gained worldwide recognition. Over the past three decades, no serious writers of fashion and perfume publications have been able to ignore him. Although he has created for many of the biggest names on the Parisian fashion scene, including Hermes and Yves Saint Laurent, it is "Ombre Rose" that has made Jean-Charles Brosseau a celebrity in his own right.

Crystal Clear

Dirty Dancing

Frank Usher

Jo Hansford

Knomo

Npeal

Roja Dove Parfumerie

Violet May

Lucy Godfrey