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Bishy Road was named winner of winners.
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Simon Roberts, Executive Vice President of Walgreens Boots Alliance and President of Boots UK, and Future High Streets Forum Co-Chairman comments:
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The Google Digital Garage on Tour is a workshop which includes sessions for businesses on finding and keeping customers online and the chance to have one-to-one consultations with Google specialists to chat through their businesses digital needs.
The final result across all categories was reached via an online public vote and expert judges assessments counting for 50% each. Between the 1 October and 13 November 2015 voting was open free online or on Facebook. Across all categories almost 200,000 votes were cast.
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