With a third of convenience stores owned by women, and seven in 10 shop staff female, you might not think independent retailing has a serious gender gap
Shropshire-based Premier retailer Julie Kaur has been named as the first winner of the Raj Aggarwal Award by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).
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ACS launches Raj Aggarwal Trophy Print
The Association of Convenience Stores has launched the Raj Aggarwal Trophy, which celebrates outstanding community retailers.
Any convenience store operator – independent retailers and managers of multiple-owned outlets – can enter. Applicants must submit a film of under 5 minutes, which will show what they have done in the past year to support their local community and what they have done in the past year to support fellow retailers.
The judges are Raj’s wife Sunita Aggarwal; James Convenience Retail managing director Jonathan James, Budgens Kenilworth owner Avtar Sidhu; and ACS chief executive James Lowman.
The films will be judged using the following criteria: engagement of colleagues in conceiving and delivering activity, impact on local community, sustainability of activity, and overall work to support other retailers.
The Do As Raj Would Do campaign raises over £20,000 for charity Print
27th April 2021
The Do As Raj Would Do campaign, in memory of Spar retailer Raj Aggarwal, has so far raised more than £24,000 for two local NHS charities.
The initiative, which ran from 19-26 April, urged retailers to donate goods, supplies or products to charities, organisations or individuals most in need in their local communities.
Aggarwal, who owned Spar stores in Wigston, Leicestershire and Hackenthorpe, near Sheffield, passed away from Covid-19 in April 2020 at the age of 51.
His family has set the goal of raising £100,000 for Leicester Hospitals Charity and Sheffield Hospitals Charity.