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12 | From the Show Director March 18-20, 2014 Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas www.globalshop.org Are you in the design business? I f you're a retailer, architect or contract designer (as almost all of our readers are), you most likely said, "Yes, I'm in the design business." But, are you in the business of design? That is, can you quantify your contribution to your company's EBITDA? Can you hold your own with your CFO? Your board? Your CEO? Or does the mere mention of ROI make you cringe, and the dubious stares of your finance team make you wither? Considering the relative difficulty to quantify design that hundreds of retail designers expressed to us over the last quarter-century, it's probable that the business end of design tests you mightily. And, unless your company is unfailingly design-driven-unless design is baked into your company culture-you'll continue to struggle with justifying your best ideas. So, how to walk into the C-Suite armed with the numbers, language and, most of all, confidence that you need to push innovative design? And by the way, do you find that your company usually goes "outside" to develop a new prototype? How can you convince leaders to look inwardly next time for such a venture? The answer is: I don't know. But, fear not, I know people who do know the answers. And that's where a tradeshow-okay, our tradeshow, GlobalShop-comes in. How's that, you ask? Well, the easy answer is through our conference program, which typically has had an eye toward the business of design. And second, your colleagues and counterparts-thousands of them, and enough time during the show to effectively network. They have the same challenges, and many are gaining more generous budgets for projects. And, perhaps more importantly, GlobalShop's exhibitors. They're oftentimes an overlooked resource, when in fact hundreds of them have become well versed, even experts at researching, testing and proving ROI of their products and services. You can look to us in the future for other tools that you can put to use in your quest for validation, like we did with our Retail Renovation ROI study, done in cooperation with Deloitte Touche, which proved the return on renovation projects, by retail channel. And, next time you're facing a design/budget challenge, or anything else where you think we can help, drop us a note at doug.hope@emeraldexpo.com. We Love Retail. And we'd love to hear from you. Contact us: 1145 Sanctuary Pkwy., Ste. 355 Alpharetta, GA 30009-4772 Ph: (770) 291-5400 Fax: (770) 569-5105 Founder And Show director | Doug Hope (770) 291-5453 doug.hope@emeraldexpo.com SAleS mAnAGer | Roarke Dowd (770) 291-5428 roarke.dowd@emeraldexpo.com Account executive | Dreama McDaniel (770) 291-5420 dreama.mcdaniel@emeraldexpo.com Account executive | Kerry Tyler (770) 291-5432 kerry.tyler@emeraldexpo.com mArKetinG mAnAGer | Heather Kuznetz (770) 291-5512 heather.kuznetz@emeraldexpo.com conFerence mAnAGer | Toni Ward (770) 291-5441 antoinette.ward@emeraldexpo.com Senior oPerAtionS mAnAGer | Derrick Nelloms (770) 291-5452 derrick.nelloms@emeraldexpo.com Senior vice PreSident | Joe Randall ceo | David Loechner Senior vice PreSident, buSineSS develoPment | Darrell Denny vice PreSident, FinAnce | Denise Bashem Doug Hope Founder and Show Director, GlobalShop doug.hope@emeraldexpo.com vice PreSident, oPerAtionS | Lori Jenks vice PreSident, diGitAl | Teresa Reilly vice PreSident, mAnuFActurinG & mArKetinG ServiceS | Joanne Wheatley | November/December 2013 www.ddionline.com http://www.globalshop.org http://www.ddionline.com

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DDi - November/December 2013
Contents
From the Editor
From the Show Director
Retail Design Collective
RDC Showroom Map
RDC Products
New York Retail
Company Listing
Product Category Index
Product Category Listing
Classifieds
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DDi - November/December 2013