Yvonne Engelmann, director, Ambiente Living and Giving, Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH, highlights why the company is proud to be sponsoring the Gift of the Year’s Best Home & Kitchen Gift Product category.
All Gift of the Year and Greats winners, including the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Achievement award, will be revealed at The Gift Awards on Thursday 15 May at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London.
“As the leading international consumer goods trade fair, Ambiente sees it as both a privilege and a responsibility to support the Gift of the Year Awards,” comments Yvonne Engelmann, director, Ambiente Living and Giving, Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH.
“These awards are a cornerstone of the industry, celebrating innovation, creativity and commercial success across the gifting sector – values that resonate strongly with our own mission. By sponsoring the Gift of the Year’s Best Home & Kitchen Gift Product category, we’re not only honouring outstanding product achievements, but also strengthening ties within the global gifting communityand underlining our commitment to supporting excellence in retail.”
Yvonne adds that for Ambiente, the year has already begun with strong momentum. “Following a successful Ambiente earlier this year, we are now preparing for the 2026 edition with great energy. Planning is well underway to further sharpen our three core areas – Dining, Living and Giving – adapting to market developments and needs and making the fair even more relevant and attractive for both exhibitors and visitors.
“In particular, the Giving section is evolving into an even more dynamic and focused platform. In Hall 4.2, Ambiente continues to offer the ideal stage for trendy gift items, premium stationery and writing instruments, as well as carefully curated school supplies and creative writing products. With a clear focus on design-led and giftable ranges across Urban Gifts, Stationery & School, we’re also enhancing synergies with our parallel events Creativeworld and Christmasworld.”
Yvonne continues: “By continuously refining the quality and international appeal of our gifting segments, we aim to provide the global trade audience with an inspiring and future-oriented business platform. We value every exhibitor’s contribution and are very much looking forward to continuing this journey together.”
Messe Frankfurt is further supporting The Gift Awards by giving each guest an environmentally friendly, sustainable, practical Blue Cycle belt bag made from recycled marine plastic, ideal for a smartphone, passport and tickets.
The Gift Awards will, once again, bring together The Giftware Association’s Gift of the Year Awards and The Greats gift retailer awards, organised and owned by Max Publishing, publishers of Progressive Gifts & Home/GiftsandHome.net.
At the glittering event, both gift product excellence and retail prowess will be recognised and rewarded in a true celebration of both sides of the UK gift industry.
The Greats 2025 finalists can be viewed HERE
The Gift of the Year 2025 finalists can be viewed HERE
Hyve Group, organisers of Spring Fair, Autumn Fair, GLEE and Source Home & Gift (among others), is the headline sponsor of The Gift Awards. Other leading names in the impressive line-up of sponsors include: Allsorted, Ambiente, Autumn Fair, BATF, Candlelight, Cardgains, Carte Blanche Greetings, Cereria Molla, Dizzy Heights Agencies, FYG, The Giftware Association, Gift Republic, Gisela Graham, Go La La, Good Results, Harrogate Christmas & Gift Fair, Letterbox Love, LicensingSource.net, London Stationery Show, Method UK, N Smith and Co, Products of Change, Progressive Gifts & Home, Progressive Greetings Live, Progressive Housewares, PreschoolNews.net, Qalara, Scotland’s Trade Fair/Springboard Events, Source Home & Gift, Spring Fair, Talking Tables, Top Drawer, Toy Fair and Trade Counter Distribution.
Tickets and tables for the awards can be booked via the Max Publishing digital box office event at Max-Tickets.net, or by contacting event organiser Createvents: clare@createvents.co.uk or 0118 334 0085.
To find out more about The Gift Awards and book tickets, visit www.thegiftawards.com; www.thegreatsawards.co.uk
Top: Ambiente’s Yvonne Engelmann.
