The Inspired Home Show and the International Housewares Association (IHA), the global sponsors and organizers of the IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) program, announced the Global Honorees for the gia Top Window Awards during the “Shoppers Just Want To Have Fun: Visual Trends Captivating Millennial and Gen Z Consumers/gia Top Window Award” presentation by gia expert juror Anne Kong earlier today.
The Global Honorees are:
Small Company Category
- Milly’s, New Zealand
- Bazaar – La Barra, Uruguay
Milly’s, New Zealand
Bazaar – La Barra, Uruguay
Large Company Category
- Loeb AG, Switzerland
- Harrods, United Kingdom
Loeb AG, Switzerland
Harrods, United Kingdom
“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! 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,” said Derek Miller, IHA president and CEO. “We look forward to hosting the four 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 an award program 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 programs with IHA are housewares trade publications worldwide that sponsor national gia programs in their respective countries, nominating the best windows for global competition.
The global jury, consisting of four gia Expert Jurors – Anne Kong, Scott Kohno, Henrik Reisby Nielsen and Wolfgang Gruschwitz – evaluated home and housewares windows from around the world based on:
- Originality and creativity (theme, concept, special effects
- Merchandise presentation
- Professionalism: execution and technical aspects (lighting, attention to detail, signage, copy)
The four gia Top Window Global Honorees of 2024 will be invited to The Inspired Home Show 2025 in Chicago and honored at an awards dinner on Sunday, March 2, together with the other gia winners of 2024-2025.
The gia program was created by 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 over 550 gia retail award winners from 55 countries on six continents.
For more information about the IHA Global Innovation Awards program, co-sponsors or participating in 2025-2026, contact Piritta Törrö at [email protected].
Additional information on the gia program is also available online at TheInspiredHomeShow.com/Awards/gia-retailing.
