Callan Co-Op named ‘Best Guaranteed Irish Advocate Store’ at the ‘United in Excellence Awards’

Callan Co-op took home the ‘Best Guaranteed Irish Advocate Store’ award at this years ‘United in Excellence Awards’.

Hardware and builders merchant stores from around the country have been honoured for achieving exceptional standards in retailing at the ‘United in Excellence Awards’ ceremony, hosted by Comedian, Mario Rosenstock at Mount Wolseley Hotel Spa & Golf Resort, County Carlow.

Rowena Maher from ‘Guaranteed Irish’ was there to present Siobhan Mason, Jim McHugh, and James Fitzgerald with the award.  

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Paul Candon, Group CEO, United Hardware said: “Our United in Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate best-in-class offerings, standards and customer service across the hardware industry. I would like to personally congratulate all the winners and those nominated for their achievements, and in particular the overall winner this year, Wallace’s Homevalue, in Wexford.  All our winning members have significantly raised the bar when it comes to excellence in retailing and have proven that they are the very best hardware stores in Ireland. Thank you to our main sponsors on the night Unilin, Dulux Paints, Cedral, Glennon Brothers, Grundfos, Calor, Irish Cement, Wavin, Einhell and Mannok and our silver sponsor Soudal”.   

The event involved the presentation of 34 awards over various key business categories such as paint, customer service, light hardware & DIY, merchanting and best regional store. As part of the nomination process, every group member store across the entire network must comply with a strict set of criteria, to ensure that the highest possible standards are continuously upheld. This involves an assessment by Store Operations which also includes an independent mystery shopper audit by an external third party.