Chicago – The Inspired Home Show and the International Housewares Association (IHA), the global sponsors and organizers of the IHA Global Innovation Awards (Gia) program, have named the Global Honorees for the Gia Top Window Awards earlier this month.
“For more than 20 years, IHA is very proud to have honored the very best in home + housewares retailing through the Gia Awards – 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the Gia Global Innovation Awards,” said Derek Miller, IHA president and CEO. “The most recent Gia Top Window Awards competition had entries from 15 countries, and it is incredibly encouraging to see the creativity and passion that retailers are placing into their window displays.
This year’s honorees include the following retailers:
- Small company category: Milly’s, New Zealand
- Small company category: Bazaar – La Barra, Uruguay
- Large company category, Loeb AG, Switzerland
- Large company category, Harrods, United Kingdom
“We look forward to hosting the four Gia Top Window Award winners at The Inspired Home Show in Chicago,” added Miller. “Along with more than 30 additional retailers who have won other Gia country-level competitions.”
The Gia Top Window Award is a special award program under the Gia umbrella. As with the general Gia Retail Awards, the Top Window Award competition is structured on a two-tier level, national and global. Co-sponsoring the country-specific Gia programs with the IHA are housewares trade publications worldwide who sponsor national Gia programs in their respective countries, nominating the best windows for the global competition.
The global jury, consisting of 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:
- Originality and creativity (theme, concept and special effects)
- Merchandise presentation
- Professionalism, execution and technical aspects (lighting, attention to detail, signage and copy)
The four Gia Top Window Global Honorees of 2024 will be invited to the Inspired Home Show 2025 in Chicago and honored at a festive awards dinner on March 2, 2025, together with the other Gia winners of 2024-2025.
The Gia program was created by the IHA and the Inspired Home Show to foster innovation and excellence in home and housewares retailing throughout the world. Since the launch of Gia in 2000, there have been more than 550 Gia retail award winners from 55 countries on six continents.
The next Inspired Home Show, the IHA’s global home and housewares market, will be held March 2-4, 2025, at Chicago’s McCormick Place Complex.
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