Hylands Service Station is a family run business in the heart of the village Great Bookham, in leafy Surrey. Offering convenience items at exceptionally good prices to their customers, owner Danyal and his team work to provide locals with their brilliant service 24 hours a day. 

Hashmees Convenience Store is a local convenience store, specialising in American confectionery, displaying over 12,000 products online. Based in suburbia just outside of London and proudly serving the customers of Sutton since 1976, Hashmees proves to be more than the average convenience store. 

Whites Calver is a SPAR convenience store and farm shop that has been running for over a hundred years

As a third generation shopkeeper, Nishi Patel has experienced first hand the ever-changing local retail scene. The 2021 Convenience Conference Rising Star of the Year finalist, Nishi and his family have owned bricks and mortar shops for over 40 years.

Parkview Retail’s Co-op Welcome convenience stores in Southampton have been serving the local community and its visitors for 20 years. Having won multiple convenience retail awards such as ‘Best use of technology', they’re always keen to be at the forefront of new tech and find ways they can best serve their customers.

Winner of the 2019 IWC Northern Ireland Wine Merchant of the Year, KWM Wines & Spirits has a thriving online business and a “strong bricks and mortar presence” in Northern Ireland’s Kilkeel. Brought to life in 1994, owner Andrew Imrie has built up KWM Wines & Spirits with a strong focus on quality, customer satisfaction and impeccable staff knowledge, giving him a very “well-established reputation in the area”. 

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