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 “2025 Visual Merchandising & Display Trends: Big Themes Driving Innovation” presentation by gia expert juror Denise Foley earlier today.
The 2025 Global Honorees are:
Small Company Category
- Potters Cookshop, United Kingdom
Large Company Category
- Krawany, Austria
“For more than 25 years, IHA is very proud to have honored the very best in home + housewares retailing through the gia 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 & CEO. “We look forward to hosting the gia Top Window Award Global Honorees at The Inspired Home Show in Chicago next March, along with more than 30 additional retailers from around the world that were selected as winners in the national gia competitions this year.”
The gia Top Window Awards is a special 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 who sponsor national gia programs in their respective countries, nominating the best windows for the global competition.
The global jury, consisting of the four gia Expert Jurors – Denise Foley, Scott Kohno, Henrik Peter 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 two gia Top Window Global Honorees of 2025 will be invited to The Inspired Home Show 2026 in Chicago and honored at a festive awards dinner on Tuesday, March 10, together with the other gia winners of 2025-2026.
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 close to 600 gia retail award winners, from 57 countries on six continents.
