The Inspired Home Show and the International Housewares Association, the global sponsors and organisers of the IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) programme, have announced the Global Honorees for the gia Top Window Awards.
The announcement was made during the ‘The window stage in the digital age/gia Top Window Award’ presentation by gia expert juror, Anne Kong.
The Global Honorees are:
Small company category
Elsasser-Peter, Switzerland
Large company category
Culinarium, Spain
Derek Miller, IHA president and ceo, commented: “The International Housewares Association is very proud to have honored the very best in home + housewares retailing through the gia Awards for over 20 years. The most recent gia Top Window Awards competition had entries from 11 countries, and it is incredibly encouraging to see the creativity and passion that retailers are placing into their window displays.
“We look forward to hosting the two gia Top Window Award winners at The Inspired Home Show in Chicago, along with more than 30 additional retailers who have won other gia country-level competitions.”
The gia Top Window Award is a special award programme under the gia umbrella. As with the general gia Retail Awards, the Top Window competition is structured on a two-tier level, national and global.
Co-sponsoring the country specific gia Top Window programmes with IHA are housewares trade publications worldwide, including Progressive Housewares and Housewaresnews.net, who sponsor gia programmes in their respective countries, nominating the best windows for the global competition.
The global jury, consisting of the four gia expert jurors – Anne Kong, Scott Kohno, Henrik Peter Reisby Nielsen and Wolfgang Gruschwitz – evaluated home and housewares windows from around the world, based on the following criteria:
- Originality and creativity (theme, concept, special effects)
- Merchandise presentation
- Professionalism: Execution and technical aspects (lighting, attention to detail, signage, copy)
The two Global Honorees of 2023 will be invited to The Inspired Home Show 2024 in Chicago and will be honoured at an awards dinner on Sunday 17 March, with the other gia winners of 2023-24.
The IHA and The Inspired Home Show created the gia programme to foster innovation and excellence in home and housewares retailing throughout the world. Since its launch in 2000, there have been over 500 gia retail award winners from more than 50 countries on six continents.
