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120 Design LeaDers Listing Welcome to design:retail's Design Leaders Listing, compiling the top design, architecture and branding firms in the retail arena. The listings, sorted alphabetically by company name, include company contact information, 2013 billings, retail square footage and a short list of services offered. T he industry's top firms appeared to have struck gold in 2013, with numbers rising steadily for North American retail design, architecture and branding firms. The top 20 firms, according to annual retail billings, compiled a total $606.5 million in 2013, compared to $481.1 million in 2012. San Francisco-based Gensler once again came in at the No. 1 spot for the fourth year in a row, with $108 million in retail billings. That's up from $70.4 million in 2012, and more than double Gensler's 2010 billings of $50 million. Gensler currently employs 4,000plus worldwide (up from 3,500 in 2012) and devotes 12.25 percent of its portfolio to retail design (total billings for the company came in at $883 million-also a big jump up for the firm, with $751 million the year prior). Gensler's leading retail clients include General Motors Corp., Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., El Palacio de Hierro, Microsoft and Neiman Marcus. The company also indicated that 23 percent of its work in 2013 was done outside of the United States, primarily in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. Coming in second this year is Seattle-based Callison, reporting retail billings of $78 million in 2013 (up from 2011's $60 million). The company's leading clients include Nordstrom, AT&T and JCPenney, and the firm reports apparel specialty (40 percent) and department stores (35 percent) make up the largest channels of retail projects worked on in the past year. Dropping to third this year is Bellevue, Wash.-based MulvannyG2 Architecture with $60.9 million in retail billings, down slightly from $68.3 million in 2012. WD Partners rose two spots to No. 4 with $49 million (up from $27.9 million). RSP Architects, new to the listing this year, came in No. 5 with $36.8 million, and GreenbergFarrow jumped up two spots to No. 6 with $33.3 million. Congrats to all for an outstanding year! Methodology: All firms are listed alphabetically in the Design Leaders listing. A "DnR" designation in the summary chart indicates that the firm "did not report" information in the category. All financial information was supplied by the responding firms and has not been audited by design:retail, which is not responsible for inaccurate information. March 2014 Designretailonline.coM Design LeaDers: Retail's tOP 20 annual retail billings in 2013: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Gensler Callison Mulvanny G2 Architecture WD Partners RSP Architects GreenbergFarrow Miller Zell FRCH Design Worldwide Little Big Red Rooster MBH Architects Chipman Design Architecture Shremsh ock Architects Inc. Tricarico Architecture and Design PC CASCO Diversified Corp. Sargenti Architects Shive-Hattery Inc. Chute Gerdeman Inc. Herschman Architects Inc. CMA $108,000,000 $78,067,000 $60,900,200 $49,000,000 $36,841,000 $33,300,000 $29,000,000 $28,504,000 $26,200,000 $24,500,000 $23,060,335 $15,500,000 $14,854,000 $12,825,000 $12,500,000 $11,550,000 $11,314,000 $10,400,000 $10,230,000 $9,934,000 http://www.DESIGNRETAILONLINE.COM

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of design:retail - March 2014

design:retail - March 2014
Contents
Editor's Note
Show Talk
On Trend
We Love This!
Designer Picks
Innovation
Postcard
Before & After
How'd They Do That?
Have You Heard?
Perspectives
The Visual Eye
Searhing for Steve Jobs
2014 Markopoulos Award
Come & Play
McDonald's
Starbucks
Beyman
Hointer
Smart Tech
Retail
Design Leaders Listings
GlobalShop 2014: The Ultimate Show Guide
Products
Backstory

design:retail - March 2014