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124 DESIGN LEADERS LISTING Welcome to design:retail's Design Leaders Listing, which features the top design, architecture and branding ﬁrms in the retail industry. The listing, sorted alphabetically by company name, includes company contact information, 2014 billings, retail square footage and a brief list of services oﬀered. I t was another great year for North American retail design, architecture and branding ﬁrms with numbers continuing to rise steadily. This year's top 20 ﬁrms, according to annual retail billings, compiled a total $614.4 million in 2014, compared to $606.5 million in 2013. San Francisco-based Gensler hung on to the No. 1 spot for the ﬁfth year in a row, with $108 million in retail billings (total billings for the company came in at $1.04 billion-a big jump for the ﬁrm, with $883 million the year prior). Gensler currently employs 4,000-plus people and operates 46 oﬃces worldwide, indicating that 25 percent of its work in 2014 was done outside of the United States (up from 23 percent in 2013) primarily in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. The global ﬁrm's leading retail clients include General Motors Corp., Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., El Palacio de Hierro, Microsoft and Bank of America. Coming in second again this year, Seattle-based Callison reported retail billings of $88.2 million in 2014 (up from 2013's $78 million). The company's leading clients include Nordstrom, AT&T, REI, Sperry TopSider and Stuart Weitzman, and the ﬁrm reports apparel specialty (50 percent) and department stores (26 percent) make up the largest channels of retail projects worked on in the past year. New to the listing this year, Schwitzke GmbH came in at No. 3 with $57.7 million in retail billings. WD Partners held on to the No. 4 spot again this year with $51.3 million in retail billings (up from $49 million). Dropping to ﬁfth this year is MulvannyG2 Architecture with $47.4 million in retail billings, down slightly from $60.9 million in 2013. 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 2015 DESIGNRETAILONLINE.COM DESIGN LEADERS: RETAIL'S TOP 20 Annual retail billings in 2014: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Gensler Callison Schwitzke GmbH WD Partners MulvannyG2 Architecture GreenbergFarrow Miller Zell Little RSP Architects FRCH Design Worldwide Big Red Rooster MBH Architects Shremshock Architects & Engineers Chipman Design Architecture CASCO Diversiﬁed Corp. Sargenti Architects Herschman Architects Inc. CR architecture + design Chute Gerdeman Inc. GH+A $108,000,000 $88,209,000 $57,700,000 $51,300,000 $47,435,000 $34,600,000 $29,000,000 $26,500,000 $26,500,000 $25,800,000 $24,500,000 $16,920,000 $16,049,255 $16,000,000 $12,100,000 $11,400,000 $11,300,000 $10,800,000 $10,021,545 $10,000,000 http://www.DESIGNRETAILONLINE.COM

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of design:retail - March 2015

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
Visual Eye
Searching for Steve Jobs
Markopoulos Award 2015
GlobalShop 2015: The Ultimate Show Guide
Las Vegas Retail A look at
McMillanDoolittle
PIRCH
WH|BM
T2
Verizon
Hedonism
Design Leaders Listing
Products
Backstory

design:retail - March 2015