John W. Herbert earns lifetime achievement honor
John W. Herbert, general secretary of EDRA/GHIN, will receive the MADE4DIY Lifetime Award at BRICONIGHT 2024 in Milan, Italy, on October 2.
The award is in recognition for his "incomparable contribution and dedication to bringing together the international community of home improvement."
Herbert has spent over 40 years in the home improvement business. He was the managing director at Knauber in Germany from 1983 to 2000, after which he served as president of The Home Depot EXPO Design Center in California.
In 2002, Herbert was appointed managing director of the BHB, the DIY Retail Association for Germany. John is the co-founder and general secretary of EDRA, the European DIY Retail Association, which was founded in 2002. GHIN, the Global Home Improvement Network, was established in 2010 due to demand from companies outside of Europe to join EDRA.
Today EDRA/GHIN has 230 members operating in 79 countries with over 35,000 home-improvement stores and members’ sales over €400 billion.
In the past 20 years John has travelled 471 times, visiting almost all major home improvement companies globally.
