Hollywood, Fla. Winners of the 33rd annual NASFM Retail Design Awards have been announced in 14 categories of store fixture design and manufacturing. Fifty-one awards will be presented to the winning architects, designers, fixture manufacturers, general contractors, and retailers on Monday, March 22, at the Fashion Show in Las Vegas. During the awards presentation, 31 projects will receive either an Outstanding Merit or a Grand Prize in the store and shop categories, with one Grand Prize recipient taking home the Store of the Year. Eighteen Store Fixture Awards have been recognized for innovative individual or fixture groupings, with one named Fixture of the Year. Here is a list of the winning projects and companies contributing to them, but actual awards won’t be announced until the ceremony on March 22. For information on attending, visit www.nasfm.org/event_RD04Tickets.cfm.

The judging took place on Jan. 29-30 in Newport Beach, Calif. The judges were Kevin Brailsford, VP-Store Environments, Blockbuster Store Planning; Ted Clemens, VP-Store Planning, Abercrombie & Fitch; Barbara Emerson, VP-Store Planning & Design, Sephora; David Milne, Principal, David Milne Design Associates; Mark Randall, Director-Fixture Purchasing, Best Buy Co.; Kathleen Socha, President/Design Director, Phase One Design Services Inc.; RoxAnna Sway, Editor, DDI; and Carole Winters, Associate Publisher, VM+SD Magazine.

We are pleased to announce that NASFM received its highest number of entries of all time, 215 in total for design projects and fixture projects. Not counting store fixture entries, Shops in a Store and Specialty Stores Under 3,000 sq. ft. were the most competitive categories. The winners were selected from projects completed between January and December 2003, and represent projects from all over the world.

NASFM is an international, not-for-profit association representing the store fixture manufacturing industry since 1956. The association's membership includes 350 regular member companies operating over 750 plants and employing more than 75,000 people worldwide; 250 industry suppliers are associate members. NASFM members manufacture an estimated 85 percent of all store fixtures produced in North America.

Note: High-resolution digital images and electronic lists of project contributors and descriptions are available for publication upon request. Please contact Karen Doodeman, 954-893-7300, ext. 31.