The Alabama Retail Association presents the Retailer of the Year awards annually. Nominees must operate or manage a retail business in Alabama, which has been in business for at least five years. To be considered a retailer, the business must collect state and local sales taxes. (Banks, insurance agencies and dry cleaners do not qualify.) Gold winners can only be recognized once within a sales category. All other previous winners can be nominated in subsequent years. Once Alabama Retail receives a nomination, the nominee is sent an entry form. Judges select the winners based on completed entry forms. We will accept nominations for the 2024 Alabama Retailers of the Year through Friday, April 12.
NOMINATE A RETAILER OF THE YEAR
If sufficient nominations are received, honorees are selected in four categories by Alabama annual sales volume:
- less than $1 million
- $1 million to $5 million
- $5 million to $20 million; and
- more than $20 million
A single winner will be selected in each sales volume category, unless the judges choose to select more than one winner.
EMERGING RETAILER AWARD:
In memory of the late Alabama Retail board member and UAB professor Mickey Gee, the Gee Emerging Retailer of the Year Award goes to an innovative and effective Alabama retailer who has been in business for at least two years, but less than five years. The award will only be presented in years when the Retailer of the Year judges feel there is a candidate worthy of the Gee name. To nominate someone for this award, simply complete a Retailer of the Year nomination form and indicate in the section about why you are nominating them. They will be placed in the Gee Emerging Retailer of the Year award based on information they provide in their Retailer of the Year entry form.