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GLOBAL INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS FROM 22 COUNTRIES CELEBRATED AT THE INTERNATIONAL HOME + HOUSEWARES SHOW IN CHICAGO

January 17, 2013

By Piritta Törrö

The International Home + Housewares Show and International Housewares Association (IHA), the global sponsors and organizers of the gia (Global Innovation Award) program, today announced the national gia winners of 2012-2013 – including 23 innovative and unique home and housewares retailers from 22 countries around the globe.

Also announced was a very special honorary gia award, to be presented to India’s TRRAIN (Trust for Retailers and Retail Associates of India) at the 2013 International Home + Housewares Show. TRRAIN is an organization that works toward improving the lives of people in retail through various initiatives. The International Housewares Association (IHA) and gia are honoring TRRAIN with the award for their vision of empowering people in Indian retail.

The IHA and International Home + Housewares Show created the gia program in 1999 to foster innovation and excellence in home and housewares retailing throughout the world. The competition is structured on a two-tier level, national and global, to honor independent and multiple location home and housewares retailers for excellence in several business categories:

  • Overall mission statement, vision and strategy
  • Store design and layout
  • Visual merchandising, displays and window displays
  • Marketing, advertising and promotions
  • Customer service and staff training
  • Innovation

Each national gia winner is invited to the International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago where the global gia jury, consisting of four experts representing Asia, Europe and the Americas, plus a rotating group of co-sponsoring trade publication editors from around the world, will select up to five gia Global Honorees and the winner of the Martin M. Pegler Award for Excellence in Visual Merchandising.

The 2012-2013 national gia winners are:

Country                Company                                               Url

Argentina               Plata Lappas                                        www.platalappas.com

Australia                Matchbox                                          www.matchbox.com.au

Brazil                     Coqueluche                                     www.coqueluche.com.br

Canada                 Linen Chest                                            www.linenchest.com

China                    Derucci                                                  www.derucci.com

Colombia              Muebles BL                                            www.mueblesbl.com

Denmark               Bahne                                                    www.bahne.dk

France                   Fleux                                                     www.fleux.com

Germany               Claudia Scheck, Küche und Genuss        www.claudia-scheck.de

India                      HomeTown                                             www.hometown.in

Italy                       Quality Living                                 www.qualitylivingverona.it

Japan                    Sempre                                          www.sempredesign.co.jp

Netherlands           Kookpunt                                               www.kookpunt.nl

New Zealand          Taylor Road Homewares                   www.taylorroad.co.nz

Poland                  Witek’s                                                   www.witeks.pl

Russia                   Polnaya Chasha                                     www.yarka.ru

Singapore             ToTT Store                                             www.tottstore.com

Switzerland            Zemp AG                                          www.zemp-wolhusen.ch

Turkey                   KORKMAZ                                             www.korkmaz.com.tr

UK                        Dinghams                                              www.dinghams.co.uk

Uruguay          La Maison de Famille                www.maisondefamillesurmer.com

USA                      Cooks of Crocus Hill                       www.cooksofcrocushill.com

USA                      Cooking.com                                         www.cooking.com

During the 2013 International Home + Housewares Show in March, the winners are honored at a festive awards dinner, where the 2012-2013 gia Global Honorees and the winner of the Martin M. Pegler Award for Excellence in Visual Merchandising will be announced. Other gia highlights at the International Home + Housewares Show include a gia showcase in the Hall of Global Innovation, in Lakeside Center Lobby, where visuals of the national gia winners’ award-winning store design and branding ideas, examples of exquisite visual merchandising and innovative displays are on display. Banners for the honored retailers can be seen in the walkway that connects the Grand Concourse and the Lakeside Center.

gia is more than an awards program. Representing retailing excellence around the world, it is part of a larger education initiative that includes seminars by retail experts, columns in international housewares publications and educational sessions at events in sponsors’ home countries. Part of gia’s educational offering, on March 4, gia Expert Juror Martin M. Pegler will conduct a special session in the Innovation Theater of the 2013 International Home + Housewares Show, with topic All You Wanted to Know About Visual Merchandising But Were Afraid It Would Cost Too Much.

 

For more information about the gia (Global Innovation Award) program, the co-sponsors, or participating in 2013-2014, contact Piritta Törrö at piritta.torro@inspiredconnection.fi. Additional information on the gia program is also available online at http://www.housewares.org/show/gia-retail.

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