Shoulberg to Receive Gift & Home Industry Achievement Award

Gift for Life, the gift and home industries’ sole charitable organization, will honor business journalist Warren Shoulberg with its 2022 Gift for Life Industry Achievement Award on June 22 in Dallas.

Gift for Life’s Industry Achievement Award, which has been presented at Gifts & Decorative Accessories’ Retailer Excellence Awards since 2009, recognizes overall excellence and contribution to the gift and home industry – whether as a thought leader, standard-bearer or overall industry influencer.

“Warren’s journalistic excellence in the home and gift industries makes him so deserving of this special recognition,” said Cole Daugherty, chair of the Gift for Life board. “His keen observations and analysis over the decades have been a catalyst for business leaders and companies to outperform expectations and to improve manufacturing, retail and wholesale.”

As the former editor in chief for several leading business-to-business publications specializing in home furnishings retailing, Shoulberg has chronicled the good, the bad and the ugly of the business in a career spanning four decades. He has been a regular contributor to The Robin Report, Forbes.com and The Business of Home as well as his own blog Warrensreport.com.

Shoulberg served as a board member for Gift for Life for more than a decade, ending his term in 2017.

“Gift for Life is the Real Deal, and I am just thrilled to be honored by an organization I’ve been involved with as a board member, supporter and just fan of for close to two decades,” Shoulberg said. “Having this happen is really a triple treat: Besides my connection to Gift for Life, I also spent a chunk of my career with Gifts & Decorative Accessories and I am a huge supporter of José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen work around the world.”

Hosted by Gifts & Decorative Accessories, the Retailer Excellence Awards recognize excellence in seven retail awards categories, as well as the vendor and manufacturer’s rep of the year distinctions.

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