retail awards

My Pillow Pets Wins Two Premier Toy Awards

San Diego, CA -- CJ Products, makers of My Pillow Pets is pleased to announce that My Pillow Pets has received the 2009 iParenting Media Excellent Product Award and the 2009 Dr. Toy Best Vacation Product Award. The original My Pillow Pets are snuggly plush companions that are also a comfortable pillow for bed, television, or travel time.

iParenting Media, one of the country's highly regarded evaluation programs utilizes three review processes: licensed childcare or school, an expert and a parent to select the winners of its coveted award. Dr. Toy's Best Products are carefully chosen, using extensive criteria including safety, age-appropriateness, design, durability, lasting play value, cultural and ethnic diversity, good transition from home to school, educational value, learning skills, creativity, improvement in the understanding of the community and the world, good value for price, and, naturally, fun. Read more...

Toronto Pearson Wins First Place Award for :10 Minute Manicure

On November 12, Toronto Pearson International Airport was awarded first place honours in the Best Consumer Services Concept category for :10 Minute Manicure. The announcement was made during the 2008 Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) Conference, at which more than 300 representatives of the North American airport concessions industry were in attendance. Hosted by the GTAA in Toronto from November 10 through to November 13, the conference helped demonstrate the critical role that concessions play in delivering a superior quality airport experience to customers.

ACI-NA represents local, regional and state governing bodies that own and operate commercial airports in the United States and Canada. In addition to this award, 25 other airports of all sizes throughout the US and Canada were recognized in various categories for their exceptional concessions programs. Read more...

Philadelphia International Airport Crowns 2007-2008 Merchant of the Year

Philadelphia, PA - The Philadelphia Marketplace Food & Shops at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) congratulates International Shoppes as the first "Merchant of the Year" award recipient. The announcement came during the EDGE! Merchant Program celebration September 3 at the Airport Marriott hotel.

Gary Prospeich, Manager of International Shoppes, won two airline tickets to anywhere in the United States, the EDGE! trophy and a $200 Visa Gift Card. His staff will choose from a wide array of prizes. Read more...

Cobourg woman opens store with novel concept

Even women who shop out of town for their jeans can patronize a Cobourg merchant, now that Amber Kelly's Denim Diva store has opened in the Upper Canada Mall.

Ms. Kelly's idea of a store to offer women jeans that really fit was the winner in the Ivanhoe Cambridge Retail Evolution contest, the prize for which was $150,000 to make her store a reality in an Ivanhoe mall. On July 23, Denim Diva opened its doors.

The competition is run in partnership with Ryerson University, where the Cobourg resident was a fourth-year student in the Ted Rogers School of Management's retail-management program at the time. Read more...

Norton Rubble & Mertz Advertising Kiosk takes three top Awards at KioskCom 2008

Oakbrook, IL – A self-service vision-testing kiosk designed and produced by Norton, Rubble & Mertz Advertising (NRM), Oakbrook, IL, received three out of the 11 "Awards of Excellence," including "Best in Show," presented at the recent KioskCom Self Service Expo and the Digital Signage Show in Las Vegas. Read more...

GIFT SHOP Magazine Announces Winner of January Retail Forum Giveaway

Hanover, Mass. – GIFT SHOP magazine is happy to announce that Scarlet Morgan, co-owner of the Trendy Trunk in Hendersonville, TN, is the winner of GIFT SHOP Forum's January raffle. She wins a video iPod Nano from GIFT SHOP magazine.

The Retail Forum is GIFT SHOP magazine's newest online venture and is meant to bring gift store retailers, vendors and other industry professionals together. Read more...