Global Honorees for Retail Excellence Recognized With gia Awards

The International Home + Housewares Show and the International Housewares Association (IHA), the global sponsors and organizers of the IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) program, announced the 2016 gia Global Honorees for Retail Excellence. 

Global Honorees are Lakehouse, Canada; Illums Belighus, Denmark; Kitchen Shop, Malaysia; K’OOK!, Netherlands (pictured); and Lords, United Kingdom.

The global gia jury, consisting of four retail/visual merchandising experts and seven editors and publishers of co-sponsoring housewares trade publications worldwide, selected the gia global honorees from the winners previously chosen in their respective countries by the national gia sponsors. 

In addition, the Martin M. Pegler Award for Excellence in Visual Merchandising was awarded to Karaca Home of Turkey and the gia Digital Commerce Award for Excellence in Online Retailing was awarded to Cooking The Kitchen Company of Spain.

The gia program was created by the IHA and International Home + Housewares Show to foster innovation and excellence in home and housewares retailing throughout the world. Since the launch of gia in 2000, there have been close to 350 gia retail award winners, from more than 40 countries on six continents.

Both gia national winners and Global Honorees are recognized and prominently featured at the International Home + Housewares Show. A festive gia awards dinner was held at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel.