M&M'S World® New York Wins Three National Awards
Feb. 8, 2008 —M&M’S World® New York, designed by Columbus, Ohio–based Chute Gerdeman Retail, has won three more national awards. The Times Square-store recently took home a first place award for "Specialty stores over 10,000-sq.-ft." at the 37th annual International Store Design Competition, and two first place awards for the store in its Retail Store of the Year competition–for "Attraction Retailing - 5,000-25,000-sq.-ft." and "Exterior - 25,000-sq.-ft. or less."
The International Store Design Competition award, presented by the Institute of Store Planners(ISP)/VM+SD, was announced at the annual awards banquet Jan. 14. The winners will be profiled in the February 2008 issue of VM+SD magazine.
Winners of the Retail Store of the Year competition, presented by Chain Store Age magazine, will be profiled in the magazine's February issue and honored Mar. 8 during the publication's annual SPECS conference in Dallas.
The M&M’S World® stores in New York and Orlando, both of which were designed by Chute Gerdeman, have won more than a dozen design awards in the past two years.
Since 1989, Chute Gerdeman Retail, based in Columbus, Ohio, creates retail brands, identities, environments, as well as every other customer touch point. The firm’s client list includes M&M’S® (Mars), Walt Disney Imagineering, Target, Levi Strauss, Limited Too, Kohl’s, Sheetz, Lowe’s, Smithsonian, Hamleys, Einstein Brothers Café, KFC (Japan), Pepsi-Cola, Ross-Simons, Nationwide Arena, Marriott Vacation Club International, Starwood, and Wolverine.
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