{"id":49885,"date":"2019-11-07T14:36:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=49885"},"modified":"2019-11-08T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:57:41","slug":"watchpro-awards-2019-results-mid-market-multiple-watch-retailer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/watchpro-awards-2019-results-mid-market-multiple-watch-retailer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"WatchPro Awards 2019 results: Mid-market Multiple Watch Retailer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Proudly serving Middle England customers with jewellery and watches from affordable luxury upwards, four exceptional retail groups competed for this year&#8217;s trophy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beaverbrooks, Chisholm Hunter, Ernest Jones and T.H. Baker are all outstanding operators that are collectively growing the number of stores they run nationwide in addition to expanding their ecommerce sales.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 141 executives from watch brands cast their votes for the retailers they most admire, and Beaverbrooks came out on top, a fitting tribute for the company \u2014 still family-owned \u2014 that is celebrating its centenary year in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Button, senior account manager at watch specialist LBS, which sponsored the Mid-market Multiple Watch Retailer Award, presented the trophy to Simon Smith, Bruce Andrews, Nick Bucknell and the whole table of Beaverbrooks senior executives who attended the WatchPro Awards dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Executives at watch brands were asked in an invitation-only poll to give their views on the quality of retailers in a short list of finalists. A weighted score (shown in brackets alongside the retailers&#8217; names) is given to each choice of &#8216;Very Good&#8217;, &#8216;Excellent&#8217; and &#8216;Exceptional&#8217; to decide the winner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2019\/11\/Mid-Market-Multiple-watch-retailer-of-the-year.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2019\/11\/Mid-Market-Multiple-watch-retailer-of-the-year.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1171\" height=\"761\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2019\/11\/Mid-Market-Multiple-watch-retailer-of-the-year-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2019\/11\/Mid-Market-Multiple-watch-retailer-of-the-year.jpg 1171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1171px) 100vw, 1171px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proudly serving Middle England customers with jewellery and watches from affordable luxury upwards, four exceptional retail groups competed for this year&#8217;s trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[2,8637,8236],"tags":[165,2577,8164],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49885"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=49885"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=49885"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=49885"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=49885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}