B&LLAs 2025 finalists are revealed

The finalists for the Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards have been announced.  

The finalists in the five categories were selected by a special retail validation panel made up of licensing industry executives from both licensors and licensees and chaired by Richard Pink, Managing Director of Pink Key Licensing.

The Retail category finalists in the B&LLAs 2025 are:

Best Fashion Brand Licensed Execution

• Abercrombie & Fitch
• FatFace
• H&M
• Next
• Primark
• Pull & Bear
• Uniqlo
• Urban Outfitters
• Zara

Best Department Store or Mixed Retailer Brand Licensed Retailer Execution

• B&M
• Boots
• Home Bargains
• John Lewis
• M&S
• TK Maxx
• Very

Best Supermarket Brand Licensed Retailer Execution

• Asda
• Iceland
• Lidl
• Morrisons
• Ocado
• Sainsbury’s
• Tesco
• Waitrose

Best Specialist Brand Licensed Retailer Execution

• B&Q
• Blue Diamond
• DFS
• Dunelm
• Habitat
• Moonpig
• Superdrug
• Waterstones
• The Works

The Radar Award(this new award is for retailers which have upped their brand and lifestyle licensing activities in the last year)

• Barker and Stonehouse
• Brewers
• Hillarys Blinds
• Hobbycraft
• Hollister
• Oliver Bonas
• My 1st Years
• Pooky
• Sofas & Stuff

Revealing the winners in April 

The winners of the awards will be revealed at a lavish afternoon event held at The Royal Lancaster Hotel, Lancaster Terrace, London on Thursday 24 April 2025, that will be attended by over 500 retailers, licensees, brand owners and representatives. 

Source: https://www.brandlicensingawards.com/ and https://www.licensingsource.net/bllas-2025-the-retail-finalists-are-revealed/