The UK Footwear Awards brings together the diverse elements of the shoe industry once a year. It has now come to be recognised as a key day in the annual footwear industry calendar: it is a day on which the industry can check its pulse - and find it beating with regularity and strength.

"The Industry is facing a brave new world of footwear sales that is less to do with the customer being measured and treasured as her downloading her favourite pair direct from her living room. With the potentials of product sales over the Internet only having come to full fruition over the last year, Stuart Paver's Shoeworld.com website was a clear contender for the Most Innovative category. The choice of brands offered - from classic to specialist, Grenson to Birkenstock - is excellent, the site is easy for visitors to navigate and buying couldn't be simpler. Production values are excellent and execution is superb. Internet shopping - of which this is a prime example - might not ever quite replace the joys of browsing or the pleasures to be had in trying on different styles, but for shoppers in a hurry, here is the answer: no more waiting to see if your size is stock, no more rucks on a busy Saturday afternoon."
Press release taken from the UK Footwear Awards publication.
The Most Innovative Retailer Award was sponsored by Meltonian, the Experts in Shoecare.

 Other awards we have gratefully received from related websites...