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CHUTE GERDEMAN RETAIL FACT SHEET
Results Through Insight. Consumer-Centric Design. Powerful ROI. |
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Who We Are |
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Insightful. Passionate. Responsive. Chute Gerdeman Retail is a growing full service retail design firm with 50+ employees emphasizing the power of design to shape clients’ brands and inspire their customers. Founded in 1989 by Elle Chute and Denny Gerdeman, the company has become one of the most respected design firms in the country. In 2006, readers of Design & Display Ideas (DDI) magazine voted Chute Gerdeman Retail “Designer of the Year.” |
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What We Do |
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We design retail, restaurants, hospitality, and entertainment. We are storytellers and problem solvers touching all of the customer senses. Our goal is to stimulate, delight, and entertain customers while simultaneously delivering to our clients a solid ROI. Our clients benefit from our fully integrated process that utilizes a seamless blend of disciplines: research, strategy, brand communication, environments design, architecture and implementation to create workable, cost effective design solutions. |
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Who We Do It For |
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Clients include: M&M’S® (Mars Retail Group), Target, Levi Strauss, 7-Eleven, Sheetz, Chili’s, Einstein Brothers Café, KFC (Japan), Marriott Vacation Club International, Smithsonian, Kohl’s, Club Libby Lu, Pepsi-Cola, Nationwide Arena, Philips Arena, and Lowe’s. |
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Professional Affiliations |
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| Denny Gerdeman |
George Nauman |
Member: Ohio Chapter,
Institute of Store Planners (ISP) |
In-Store Marketing Institute |
| Retail Advertising & Marketing Association (RAMA) |
| Editirial Advisory Board : DDI |
| Board of Directors: DDI |
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| Board of Directors: The Planning & Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) |
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| Elle Chute |
Brian Shafley |
| Ohio Chapter: ISP, Vice President |
Editorial Advisory Board: VM+SD |
| Editorial Advisory Board: DDI |
Ohio Chapter: ISP, President |
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Recent Awards |
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DDI magazine honored Elle Chute with the prestigious Retail Design Luminary award and featured Denny Gerdeman as a Retail Design Influencer. In addition, Chute Gerdeman was named one of the Most Exciting Design firms for the tenth consecutive year. |
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| Chute Gerdeman Retail |
RetailDesignDiva.com |
| DDI |
Media Industry Newsletter |
| • Voted one of the Most Exciting design firms |
Best of the Web Awards |
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• Best Blog business-to-business |
| Jinsei |
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| NASFM Retail Design Awards |
Elle Chute |
| • Outstanding Merit (Restaurant) |
DDI |
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• Retail Design Luminary |
| M&M'S World® New York |
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| DDI |
Denny Gerdeman |
| • Voted one of the Best-Designed New Stores |
DDI |
| • Voted Best-Designed Entertainment Store |
• Retail Design Influencer |
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| Chute Gerdeman Retail |
Bou-Tiki at Walt Disney World |
| • DDI Designer of the Year |
NASFM Store Fixture Award |
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• Full Store Fixturing |
| M&M'S World® Orlando |
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VM+SD/ISP
International Store Design Competition |
Lane Bryant Cacique |
| Chain Store Age |
| • Store of the Year |
• Retail Store of the Year, Soft Line
Retailers 5000 s.f. to 15,000 s.f. |
| • 1st Place Specialty Store over 10,000 sf |
| • Special Awards for Innovative concept |
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| • Innovative Lighting |
Jinsei |
| • Innovative Fixtures |
VM+SD/ISP
International Store Design Competition |
| NASFM Retail Design Awards |
• Store Fixture Award, Freestanding
M&M'S® Display |
• Award of Merit, Best Sit-Down restaurant |
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| Chain Store Age |
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| • 1st Place Attraction Retailing |
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