The Canadian Home Products Trade Association (CHPTA) is pleased to announce that the winning retailer of the prestigious gia Canada Award for 2024-2025 is Carol’s Nicetys located in Oakville, Ontario.
About the gia Awards
The CHPTA is proud to be the Canadian Sponsor of the IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) program recognizing overall excellence, business innovation and creative merchandising in home and housewares retailing.
The gia program was created by the International Housewares Association (IHA) and The Inspired Home Show (formerly the 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 approximately 500 gia retail award winners, from over 50 countries on six continents.
The gia competition is structured on a two-tier level, national and global, to honour independent and multiple location home and housewares retailers for excellence in several business categories:
- Overall mission statement, vision and strategy
- Store design and layout
- Visual merchandising, displays and window displays
- Marketing, advertising and promotions
- Customer service and staff training
- Innovation
Co-sponsoring the country-specific gia award programs with IHA are housewares associations and trade publications worldwide, which sponsor national gia programs in their respective countries. Each national gia winner is invited to The Inspired Home Show in Chicago, where the global gia jury, consisting of four 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 giaGlobal Honourees and the winners of the Martin M. Pegler Award for Excellence in Visual Merchandising and the gia Digital Commerce Award for Excellence in Online Retailing.
The 2025 Inspired Home Show will be held March 2-4 at McCormick Place in Chicago where the national winners will be featured at a special display in the Grand Concourse Lobby. On Sunday, March 2, 2025, the national gia Award winners will be honoured at a gala awards dinner from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. where the gia Global Honourees and winners of the Martin M. Pegler and gia Digital Commerce Award will be announced.
About Carol’s Nicetys
After over 25 years of experience at several top kitchen retail stores in Toronto & Oakville. Carol Lacher’s dream to one day open a family-run Kitchen Store began. In November 2017, the dream became a reality, when she and her husband Dirk Hermanns opened Carol’s Nicetys’ doors for the first time in downtown Oakville, Ontario within walking distance of Lake Ontario.
Seven years later, Carol’s Nicetys is in a new bigger and brighter store, a little closer to town square and just one block east of the original location.The store’s staff has a combined 30+ years of experience, and 20 years of friendship. Their dedicated staff all love to cook & enjoy helping all of their customers with their kitchen and dining needs. Support from their customers and the long-lasting relationships that have developed with them have contributed greatly to the success of the store.
Pictured is Carol Lacher (R), Owner, and her niece Paige Lacher (L), Store Manager, of Carol’s Nicetys.
Carol’s Nicetys is very proud to represent luxury quality brands, reasonable everyday items & the latest kitchen gadgets that consumers are seeking. Brands such as Wusthof, Shun knives, Riedel Glassware, Pillivuyt dishes & serving pieces, Staub, Scanpan Cookware, Alessi, Herend, Garnier Thiebaut Linens…to name just a few.
Contact Info:
Carol Lacher, Owner
Email: carol@nicetys.com
Store Tel: 905-338-0275
Website: shop.nicetys.com
For more information on the gia Canada Award including past winners, visit: https://chpta.ca/gia-awards/
