The world's most innovative and creative home goods retailers are honored each year in the IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) program.

From sustainable practices to community engagement initiatives, retailers are improving their impact on both people and the world around them. But innovation and elevation alone are not enough. To truly captivate the modern consumer, retailers must create compelling narratives and experiences.

Excellence in home goods retail will be a major focus at The Inspired Home Show 2024 in Chicago, as is traditional.

The Inspired Home Show and the International Housewares Association (IHA), the global sponsors and organizers of the GIA program, announced the national winners of the gia awards for 2023-2024:

The total of 32 leading home goods retailers from 31 countries around the world included country winners family totally new: Peru and Kazakhstan.

A valuable initiative

The program family was created by IHA and The Inspired Home Show to foster innovation and excellence in home and home goods retailing around the world.

Since the launch of family In the year 2000, more than 500 winners of GIA awards Retail, from more than 50 countries on six continents.

The winners of the family nationals 2023-2024 are:

Different levels

The competition family is structured on two levels, national and global, to honor independent, multi-location housewares and home furnishings retailers for excellence in several business categories:

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

Each national winner of family is invited to The Inspired Home Show in Chicago, where the global jury of family, comprised of 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 awardees from gia Global and the winners of the Martin M. Pegler Award for Excellence in Visual Merchandising and the Award family Digital Commerce to Excellence in Online Commerce.

On Sunday, March 17, national winners will be honored at a festive awards dinner where global winners will be announced. family and the winners of the Martin M. Pegler Award and already Digital Commerce Award. In addition, national winners are presented with a special exhibition at the Show.

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More than an awards program

Representing retail excellence around the world, it is part of a broader educational initiative that includes seminars taught by retail experts, columns in international home goods publications and educational sessions at events in sponsors' home countries.

As part of the educational offer of family, on Monday, March 18, the four family Expert Juror s, Anne Kong, Wolfgang Gruschwitz, Scott Kohno and Henrik Peter Reisby Nielsen will present a special session at the Show Inspiration Teatro.

The Inspired Home Show, IHA's global home + home goods exhibition, will be held March 17-19 at Chicago's McCormick Place Complex. For more information about the 2024 Fair and to register for your free Fair admission badge, visit www.TheInspiredHomeShow.com.