July 13, 2018 — The ninth-annual ICON HONORS celebrated global innovation as top achievers and superior achievements were recognized on the most anticipated and important night in the home and gift industry.
Staged at AmericasMart® Atlanta on July 12, ICON HONORS guests celebrated the achievements of the best of the best in the home and gift industry. Honors were conferred upon those in the industry doing truly extraordinary things in pursuit of their dreams – those who achieve success through ingenuity, integrity, creativity, energy and hard work.
GHTA/GFL Honor of Excellence Award winner April Cornell (center) with (from left): AmericasMart’s George Kacic and John Portman, Jr., Andrea Lillo from HFN , and CNN’s Nick Valencia.
Retailers, manufacturers, sales agencies and service providers all were eligible to pursue ICON HONORS recognition in a broad field of 16 distinct categories of competition. Honorees were selected through extensive adjudication by highly qualified experts drawn from the world of design, manufacturing and product development.
Here are the ICON HONORS 2018 Honorees:
The 2018 Innovation Honors
Product Innovations
Coleen Christian Burke
First Ladies Collection
By Fitz and Floyd
The 2018 Innovation Honors
Product Innovations
Picnic Time Family of Brands
The 2018 Contribution Honors
Industry Influence
Franz Collection Inc.
The 2018 Branding Honors
Branding/Identity
Alabama Sawyer
The 2018 Branding Honors
Branding/Identity
Museum Store Association
ICON HONORS 2018
The Gift and Home Trade Association/Gift for Life Honor of Excellence
April Cornell
ICON HONORS 2018
The AmericasMart Medal of Excellence Honor
Bobbie Gottlieb
Tom Gottlieb
Two’s Company
ICON HONORS is the signature event of The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market®. It is produced and staged by AmericasMart® Atlanta in exclusive partnership with the Gift & Home Trade Association (GHTA) and Progressive Business Media, and in affiliation with Gift For Life. Please visit www.ICONHONORS.com for information about ICON HONORS.
About AmericasMart® Atlanta
AmericasMart is the nation’s only global wholesale marketplace housing the world’s single-largest collection of home, gift, area rug and apparel merchandise. The largest of AmericasMart’s 16 annual Markets and shows, The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market and The Atlanta International Area Rug Market in January and July are the ignition switch for global retailing with buyers from every U.S. state and as many as 70 countries discovering product in more than 1,500 showrooms and more than 3,500 temporary exhibiting companies. ICON HONORS, the home and gift industry’s most celebrated recognition program, is produced and staged annually by AmericasMart.
Located in downtown Atlanta, the AmericasMart complex contains more than seven million square feet of space. It’s a huge global stage on which manufacturers, designers and sales representatives unveil new lines, launch new designs and introduce new categories – all for the benefit of buyers seeking all that is fresh and first in the home, rug, gift and apparel arenas. For more information, please visit www.AmericasMart.com. Follow us @AmericasMartATL or @atlantaapparel.
