EuroShop RetailDesign Award

For the past 17 years, the “EuroShop RetailDesign Award” has been a well-established platform for the annual recognition of outstanding store concepts.

The award is now presented in a three-year cycle, honoring the three best store concepts worldwide.

Since 2023, the award has been honored in five different categories: Food, Fashion & Lifestyle, Digital, Hospitality and Sustainability , with one single winner in each category.
The perfect mix of store architecture, colors, materials, lighting, and visual merchandising, combined with the right touch of sustainability and digitalisation are the convincing factors for the overall jury decision.

The message identification of product range and target groups of each winning candidate is the result of these criteria.

Award winners 2026

2026’s five winners succeeded against 117 competitors from 30 countries and were honored on the first day of the world’s largest trade fair EuroShop in Duesseldorf.

They impressed with forward-looking sustainability ideas, exciting design presentations and technologically and conceptually innovative retail projects.

Digital

MediaMarkt TechVillage

Fashion & Lifestyle

House of Silhouette

Food

Cyberculture

Hospitality

Casa Garbo

Sustainability

INTERSPORT Finke

Award Winners 2026

The five winners of the EuroShop RetailDesign Award 2026 have received their awards during the EuroShop 2026.

Winners 2026

Nominees 2026

In 2026 EHI Retail Institute and Messe Düsseldorf will honor five of the most convincing store designs in the world during EuroShop.

For the EuroShop RetailDesign Award 2026, 122 proposals from 30 countries were submitted, 51 nominees reached the final round.

Nominees 2026

Award categories

Food

For this category, retail concepts can be submitted that offer all types of food (including animal food) for sale.

Fashion & Lifestyle

For this category, retail concepts can be submitted that offer all types of goods for sale with the exception of food (clothing, building and DIY products, cosmetics, furniture, pharmacies, chemist’s shops, consumer electronics, sports equipment, bicycles, etc.).

Digital

For this category, retail concepts from all sectors can be submitted if they take advantage of the opportunities of digitalisation to offer their customers the best possible shopping experience in store.

Hospitality

For this category, concepts can be submitted that offer extensive gastronomy services (drinks and ready-prepared meals).

Sustainability

For this category, retail concepts can be submitted that implement sustainable aspects in the context of store planning and furnishings to a particularly extensive degree (e.g. through environmentally friendly furnishings, the sustainable use of resources, regional production, the re-use of shop fittings).