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06 Sept 2025

Louth MACE Deli Supervisor wins national award

Louth MACE Deli Supervisor wins national award

Ray Murphy, Bunzl Ireland, presents the Delicatessen Food to Go Manager of the Year Award to Sonya Carolan of Mace Blackbull at the ShelfLife Grocery Management Awards

Sonya Carolan, Deli Manager of MACE Blackbull, Co Louth was named Deli Food-to-Go Manager of the Year at the annual ShelfLife Grocery Management Awards.

To win a Shelflife retail management award is a high point in the career of many of Ireland’s best performing managers from across a variety of categories and at various levels of career progression and the event is also the principal networking event for managers from across all retl brands to gather with colleagues, business partners, suppliers and friends.

The theme of this year’s ceremony was ‘Helping Hands, Build Great Stores’, chosen to reflect the importance of superb teamwork, inspired by an encouraging and motivational manager, in driving excellent in-store results.

Keith Crawford, MACE Sales Director, paid tribute to Sonya on her award: “To win a ShelfLife National Grocery Management Award is a great honour and one Sonya thoroughly deserves.

"I want to congratulate Sonya, Jewel Akber and all the team. This is a wonderful example of the outstanding excellence across the MACE estate.”

The ShelfLife National Grocery Management Awards are now in their 18th year and are the long-standing benchmark for those in management in the retail industry.

 

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