3rd Nature
Barneys New York Inc.
Bass Pro Shops
Benihana Inc.
Blissworld LLC
Bloomingdale’s
Booth Creek Ski Holdings Inc.
Brown-Foreman Corp.
Capezio
Cassis
Cellar 360
Centre Vu
Elephant Pharm
FAO Schwarz
Fido Solutions Inc.
Fornarina
Fortunoff Fine Jewelry & Silverware Inc.
Greens Restaurant Group
Groupe St. Laurent Trends
Guess? Inc.
Holt Renfrew
Interceramic Centro
The Landmark Corp.
Lavazza Coffee Shop Srl
Lenox Group Inc.
Lexus West Kendall
Li Ning
Lily Simon
Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc.
Macy's Inc.
Maska Mode
Metro Produce & Baked Goods Division
Michelin North America
New Balance Athletic Shoe
Nike
Nokia Group
O2 UK
P&G Canada
Pacific Sunwear
Palacio de Hierro
Parasuco Jeans
plaza too
Ponte Vedra Inn & Club
Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI)
The Remington Group
Robinson and Company Ltd.
Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises Inc.
Shiekh LLC
shu uemura
Snaidero USA
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
South Coast Plaza
South St. Burger Co.
Stratus Vineyards
Sundance Catalog Company Ltd.
Things Remembered
The Timberland Company (Retail)
Trans Eurokars Pte. Ltd.
Vineyard Vines by Richards
Virgin Retail Ltd.
Walt Disney/Global Retail Store Development Production
Zoe’s Kitchen USA
Zonik (United Electronics Co.)
3 Big Winners Announced—for Store of the Year, Fixture of the Year and Visual Presentation
of the Year!
The Association for Retail Environments (A.R.E.) celebrated the 39th anniversary of its awards presentation on Wednesday, March 10, during an awards ceremony in the Venetian Hotel. The presentation, held the end of the first day of GlobalShop, presented 60 awards to 47 projects for the innovation and quality of their retail environment designs, including best individual elements and sustainable environments. Jennifer Beesley, Vice President-Director of Visual Merchandising for Cost Plus World Market Inc. served as master of ceremonies.
Click here for a complete list of the winners for each category.
Store of the Year
The Store of the Year was awarded to Barbie Shanghai, Shanghai, China. A.R.E. members—Chute Gerdeman Retail, Columbus, Ohio; Slade Architecture, New York; and Kingsmen Shanghai Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China—contributed to the project. In addition, fifteen stores and shops were presented with Grand Prizes onstage and sixteen Outstanding Merits received their awards after the ceremony.
Special Elements
There were eight Store Fixture Awards, four Visual Presentation Awards and five first-time Special Element Awards for flooring, in-store communications, lighting, and wall treatments. In addition, the Fixture of the Year was awarded to designer member Ruscio Studio in Montreal for Mark’s Walk-in Freezer Lab in the Outerwear/Workwear Department in Edmonton, AB, Canada, and the VMSD Visual Presentation of the Year was awarded to visual member Coloredge – Retail Visual Group in New York for Apple Stores’ Hanging Apps Display.
Judges were Mitch Abbott, The Rockport Company; Kristin Godsey, VMSD Magazine; Danette Kroll, Foot Locker Inc.; Brad Lenz, Liz Claiborne Inc.; Alison Embrey Medina, DDI Magazine;
Robert Ruscio, Ruscio Studio; Charles Sparks, Charles Sparks & Co.; and Marianne Wilson, Chain Store Age
For full coverage of all of the award-winning projects, including project descriptions, photographs, lists of contributing companies, and awards each has won, visit www.retailenvironments.org and click on the A.R.E. Design Awards movie. To search for winning companies and projects from the past decade, visit the A.R.E. Design Awards site and click on Awards/Search Past Winners.
