The International Housewares Association (IHA) and The Inspired Home Show, the global sponsors and organizers of the IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) program, announced the Global Honorees for the gia Top Window Awards during a webinar today.
The webinar, “2025 Visual Merchandising & Display Trends: Big Themes Driving Innovation,” featured gia expert juror Denise Foley, a visual and brand experience consultant with more than 30 years of experience across luxury retail, brand merchandising, consulting and education.
The 2025 gia Top Window Global Honorees are:
Small Company Category: Potters Cookshop – United Kingdom
Potters Cookshop – United Kingdom
Large Company Category: Krawany – Austria
Krawany – Austria
“For more than 25 years, IHA has been immensely proud to honor the very best in home and housewares retailing through the gia Awards,” said Derek Miller, IHA president and 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. 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 are a program under the gia umbrella. As with the general gia Retail Awards, the Top Window competition is structured into national and global tiers. Housewares trade publications worldwide sponsor national gia programs in their respective countries, nominating windows for the global competition.
The global jury consists of four gia Expert Jurors — Foley, Scott Kohno, Henrik Peter Reisby Nielsen and Wolfgang Gruschwitz — who evaluate 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 2025 gia Top Window Global Honorees will be invited to The Inspired Home Show 2026 in Chicago and will be honored at an awards dinner on Tuesday, March 10, alongside the other 2025-26 gia winners.
