Announcing a "Call for Entries" for NASFM's
Retail Design Awards 2002 Competition

Hollywood, FL—Enter your store, shop, or store fixture in NASFM's Retail Design Awards 2002 Competition. Celebrating its 31st anniversary, the NASFM Retail Design Awards is the largest and longest-running retail design competition of its kind, and the only one that recognizes individual store fixture design and manufacturing. Award winners receive coverage in a special supplement produced by Display & Design Ideas, the Presenting Sponsor of NASFM's Retail Design Awards, online coverage on www.retailenvironments.org, and exposure in other leading trade press. Crystal awards and certificates will be presented on April 18 during a reception following the close of the first day of GlobalShop.

Entries may be submitted by retailers, designers, architects, and store fixture manufacturers for projects completed between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2001. Projects are judged by a panel of retail designers, visual merchandisers, and design editors. Awards are based on excellence in design, originality in the use of space and fixtures, and quality in executing the concept. Top honors are awarded to one "Fixture of the Year" and one "Store of the Year." Grand prizes and outstanding merits will be designated in each store or fixturing category. Each entry will automatically be considered for a special merit for outstanding store fixtures.

Entries may be submitted for new or remodeled department stores, shops, specialty stores, outlet stores, service retailers, convenience or grocery stores, food retailers, restaurants, foodservice establishments, and in-store e-tailing/interactive sites. Deadlines for entries are Dec. 14, 2001 (early bird); Jan. 15, 2002 (final).

If you're looking for industry recognition, take your best designs and enter them in the premiere retail design and store fixture manufacturing awards program‹NASFM's Retail Design Awards 2002. Contact NASFM at 954-893-7300 for complete entry rules or visit www.retailenvironments.org for downloadable entry forms.

NASFM is an international, not-for-profit association representing the store fixture manufacturing industry since 1956. The association's membership includes more than 450 regular member companies operating over 800 plants and employing more than 75,000 people worldwide; an additional 200 industry suppliers are associate members. NASFM members manufacture an estimated 85% of all store fixtures produced in North America, and the 100 largest North American store fixture manufacturers are NASFM members. The typical NASFM member employs 85 people, and generates revenues in excess of $10 million per year.

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