Please read this section carefully before compiling your entry.
Please complete the entry form, print and fax back to the Retail Interiors Awards team on 020 7728 5565 and email your completed entry to retailinteriorsawards@emap.com ensuring your company name is clear. When we receive your full entry we will confirm receipt.
Download your official entry form here
Entry requirements
- The project must have been completed within the last 12 months (1 June 2007 to 31 May 2008).
- The project must be a UK store, unless entering the Best International Retail Interior category.
- A project may be entered into any number of relevant categories, but the judges reserve the right to re-allocate any entry, which in their view, has been incorrectly categorised.
- If the project is a team effort (i.e. retailer, designer, shopfitter) please make sure you have the full support of the other parties involved.
- For retail designers, equipment suppliers and shopfitters, it is essential to obtain the approval of the retailer.
- If you are entering more than one category, please submit a full entry for each one, and fill out separate entry forms.
How to enter
Select the category most relevant to the project you wish to enter. Each entry must include:
1) Written Submission
A Microsoft Word document of no more than 500 words including:
- The name and location of the shop, the retailer and the main designers involved in the project.
- Details of the design brief.
- Details of problems or challenges and how they were overcome.
- An explanation of elements of particular design interest.
- Details of the project's achievements in terms of performance and brand positioning.
- A statement about why you believe your entry deserves to win.
2) Images
The images to support your written entry MUST be submitted in the format specified. Images sent by post will not be considered.
- Images must be supplied as a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
- The PowerPoint presentation must be no more than 3mb in size.
- The images must be 120dpi when imported into PowerPoint.
- The presentation must have a maximum of 6 slides and at least 1 image of the exterior of the store.
- The PowerPoint presentation must be clearly titled with the shop name and the company submitting the entry.
- The presentation must detail the category being entered, name and location of the shop, the retailer and the main designers involved.
Where to send your entry
ENTRIES MUST ALL BE SUBMITTED BY EMAIL to retailinteriorsawards@emap.com by no later than Friday 13 June 2008.
We regret that hard copy entries cannot be considered.
All entries on email must include three attachments:
- A completed official entry form, downloaded from our website
- Your 500-word written submission
- The 6 page PowerPoint presentation with your images (total size of document to be no larger than 3mb)
Please call 020 7728 5285 if you have any questions about the entry process.
Download your official entry form here



