Four global stores including Harrods in the UK have scooped a gia Top Window Award and will be travelling to Chicago next year.
As part of the IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) program, every year an expert jury picks global honourees for the best window display and this year the winners are Milly’s (New Zealand) and Bazaar – La Barra (Uruguay) in the small company category and Loeb AG (Switzerland) and Harrods (UK) in the large company category.
“For more than 20 years, IHA is very proud to have honoured the very best in home and housewares retailing through the gia Awards and 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the gia Global Innovation Awards,” enthuses Derek Miller, IHA president & 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.”
The gia Top Window Award is a special award program under the gia umbrella. As with the general gia Retail Awards, the top tindow competition is structured on a two-tier level, national and global.
Co-sponsoring the country-specific gia Top Window programs with IHA are homewares trade publications worldwide who sponsor national gia programs in their respective countries, nominating the best windows for the global competition.
The four gia Top Window Global Honourees of 2024 will be invited to The Inspired Home Show 2025 in Chicago and honoured at an awards dinner together with the other gia winners of 2024-2025.
“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.”
Main image: Harrods
