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112 DESIGN LEADERS LISTING Welcome to design:retail's annual 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, 2015 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 $680.9 million in 2015, compared to $614.4 million in 2014. San Francisco-based Gensler hung on to the No. 1 spot for the sixth year in a row, with $120.5 million in retail billings, a jump up from $108 million in retail billings last year. Gensler currently operates 47 offices worldwide, and reports that 25 percent of the firm's work in 2015 was done outside of the United States, primarily in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. The global firm's leading retail clients include Microsoft, General Motors, Saks Fifth Avenue and Primark. Coming in second again this year, Seattle-based CallisonRTKL (formerly Callison) reported retail billings of $83.5 million in 2015 (down from 2014's $88.2 million). The company's leading clients include Nordstrom, AT&T, REI, Nike and Williams-Sonoma, and the firm reports that apparel specialty (40 percent) and department stores (33 percent) make up the largest channels of retail projects worked on in the past year. Schwitzke GmbH came in at No. 3 for the second year in a row with $54 million in retail billings. GreenbergFarrow moved up to No. 4 this year with $49.4 million in retail billings (up from $34.6 million). Dropping to fifth this year was WD Partners with $45.2 million in retail billings, down slightly from $51.3 million in 2014. 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 2016 DESIGNRETAILONLINE.COM GLOBALSHOP.ORG DESIGN LEADERS: RETAIL'S TOP 20 Annual retail billings in 2015: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 10 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Gensler CallisonRTKL Schwitzke GmbH GreenbergFarrow WD Partners MG2 FRCH Design Worldwide Big Red Rooster, a JLL Company Little MBH Architects GUILD CR architecture + design Chipman Design Architecture RSP Architects Shremshock Architects Inc. CASCO Diversified Corp. Shive-Hattery Inc. Herschman Architects Inc. GPD Group GH+A Chute Gerdeman Inc. $120,500,000 $83,515,911 $54,000,000 $49,400,000 $45,225,000 $41,755,008 $38,261,250 $30,000,000 $30,000,000 $25,202,000 $20,000,000 $19,300,000 $19,150,000 $19,000,000 $15,160,000 $13,300,000 $13,175,000 $12,600,000 $11,847,000 $10,800,000 $8,800,000 http://www.DESIGNRETAILONLINE.COM http://www.GLOBALSHOP.ORG

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of design:retail - March 2016

design:retail - March 2016
Contents
Editor's Note
GlobalShop Talk
On Trend
We Love This!
Designer Picks
Clicks & Mortar
Postcard
Perspectives
Have You Heard?
The Visual Eye
Searching for Steve Jobs
GlobalShop 2016
Chelsea Collective
Primark
Marqt
Ports 1961
Art Van Furniture
Ted Baker
Design Leaders Listing
Products
Backstory

design:retail - March 2016