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Call Goes Out for Icon Nominations

October 22, 2014  by in Industry   

The sixth-annual Icon Honors extends to retailers, manufacturers, sales agencies and service providers the invitation to seek their place on a global stage reserved for those whose professional and personal achievements are declared superior in rigorous adjudication across a field of 16 distinct categories of competition.

Icon Honors is produced and staged by AmericasMart Atlanta in exclusive partnership with the Gift & Home Trade Association and Progressive Business Media, and in affiliation with Gift For Life.

With a coterie of 60 Honorees recorded over its first five years—from every dimension of the home and gift industry—Icon Honors in 2015 will again recognize the highest levels of achievement from a diverse field of submissions and nominations posted across the call for entries period ending March 16, 2015.  Icon Honors are conferred annually in July in conjunction with The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market® on what is universally recognized as the most anticipated and important night in the home and gift industry.

All Icon Honors submissions and nominations are made exclusively online at iconhonors.com. New to Icon Honors 2015—and conferred separately from entries received in open submissions and nominations—is the Progressive Business Media Marketing Messaging to Retailers Honor.  The new honor recognizes superior achievement in manufacturing and sales organizations creating multi-channel business-to-business marketing campaigns that have produced successful sales results and strong brand value propositions.

The Icon Honors has four categories--innovation, contribution, branding and achievement--each with individual subsections.

Three innovation subsections include: technology innovations for marketing, networking and selling; product innovations for new products, redesigned products and licensed products; and packaging innovations for new designs, new material and eco-friendly.

Two contribution subsections include: community influence for business development and outreach; and industry influence for leadership and cause-related product.

Three branding subsections are branding and identity include: brand identity and development for brand launch, brand continuity, and rebranding.

The two achievement subsections are for new achiever and career achiever.

Honorees are selected through extensive adjudication by highly qualified experts drawn from the world of design, manufacturing and product development. The 2015 call for entries continues through March 16, with adjudication immediately following. The 2015 Icon Honors celebration is set for Thursday, July 9, as the signature event of The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market.