Nominations for the 2024 TAGIE Awards are open – Toy World Journal | The enterprise journal with a ardour for toysToy World Journal

Folks of Play is accepting Toy & Recreation Worldwide Excellence (TAGIE) Award nominations now by means of to 2nd August.

Now coming into its seventeenth yr, the TAGIE Awards, offered by Folks of Play (POP), will as soon as once more honour the very best and brightest innovators, designers, retailers, suppliers, PR and entrepreneurs within the world toy and sport business – everybody that’s a part of a product’s journey to the buyer and the numerous communities that make up the bigger business of play. The TAGIEs are a part of POP Week. This necessary recognition, honouring contribution, innovation and spirit of group, is the very coronary heart of POP.

The next is the checklist of 11 classes now open for nominations for the 2024 TAGIE Awards:

• Toy Innovator of the Yr
• Recreation Innovator of the Yr
• Rising Star Innovator of the Yr
• Younger Inventor of the Yr
• Modern Artwork and Visuals of the Yr
• Modern PR and Advertising and marketing Crew of the Yr
• Most Modern Retailer Award
• Most Modern Provider
• Most Modern Licensed Product
• Recreation Changers – Innovation Heroes

This yr, the TAGIE Recreation Changer class will honour the progressive heroes of the business; the those who make the business progressive, but are seldom publicly recognised.

Karri Bean, senior world licensing supervisor at Disney Shopper Merchandise and host of the TAGIE Awards, mentioned: “The TAGIEs carry everybody collectively for a star-studded night time of celebrating the toy business’s most gifted folks across the globe that outline the daring and progressive people and groups of the toy and sport business – the Folks of Play.”

Nominations are open now by means of the 2nd August. Finalists from every class will probably be notified at the start of September and voting will probably be open to most of the people, media and business, except for Recreation Changer and Lifetime Achievement. The latter classes are chosen by the TAGIE Awards committee and the Lifetime Achievement committee. The Awards committee additionally creates the In Memoriam Presentation and selects the recipient of the Hassenfeld Humanitarian Award.

To submit a nomination, click on right here.