For the Week of December 13th

Management Changes:

Leggett & Platt Store Fixtures Group (Niles, Ill.) announced these promotions within its Target team: Melissa Kitzmiller, to account manager; and Vincent DiFatta, to project manager.

GBD Architects Inc. (Portland, Ore.) has named Kevin Johnson a principal.

Anthem Worldwide (New York strategic design company) has hired Amanda Coppola as a senior account manager and promoted Janice Jaworski to managing director.

Relocation:

LIFT Discplay Inc. (manufacturer of interactive display fixtures) to 4565 S. Wayside Dr., Ste. 104, Houston, TX 77087. Phone: 713-649-3644; fax: 713-649-3650.

Store Openings/Contracts:

GRID2 (New York retail design and architecture firm) has been hired by Kornmeyer's Furniture to help design an expansion and upgrade of its store in Baton Rouge, La. The project includes a 40,000-square-foot addition and a renovation of the existing 100,000 square feet of retail space.

Business Brief:

nParallel (Minneapolis brand communication, merchandising strategy and display company) has designed a modular trade show display for Heidelberg Engineering (Dossenheim, Germany producer of scanning lasers for glaucoma management).

Associations:

The International Association of Lighting Designers (Chicago) has elected the following to its 2005 board of directors: Graham Phoenix, PhoenixLarge/lightmatters, London, president-elect; Jeffrey Miller, Pivotal Lighting Design, Seattle, external affairs director; Larry French, AuerbachoGlasow, San Francisco, membership director; Mary Rushton Beales, Lighting Design House, Middlesex, U.K., education director; and Julie Blankenheim, Lighting Design Alliance, Chicago, director-at-large. Also, the following were elected to serve on the five-member membership committee: Dawn Hollingsworth, Visual Terrain, Los Angeles; and Michael K. Souter, Luminae Souter, San Francisco.

Awards:

Vista Color Imaging (Cleveland digital imaging company) was named 2004 Imaging Innovator of the Year by Photographic Processing magazine and awarded the 2004-05 Business Excellence Award from Wide-Format Imaging magazine.