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DDI magazine's mission is to help retailers maximize sales through effective store design and visual presentation.

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DDI Magazine

The purpose of DDI is to help retailers maximize sales through effective store design and visual presentation. The magazine focuses on design strategies, new products and global trends, and shares success stories across all retail sectors by communicating the value of successful store design among top retail executives. Store planners, visual merchandisers, store designers, independent architects and contract designers working with high-volume retail chains, and top designers, planners and architects designing retail sites for consumer-products manufacturers depend on coverage in DDI for cutting-edge technology and product application for store design. Special issues and sections include the January Buyers' Guide, July's Fixture Leaders, September's Portfolio Issue and November's Annual DDI/NASFM Retail Interiors Forecast.

Company Overview
DDI is a Nielsen Business Media and Nielsen eMedia production. Nielsen Business Media educates and inspires the design industry with print, face-to-face and online information. Nielsen eMedia enables Nielsen Business Media to publish in the fast-paced online market. Nielsen Business Media is a division of The Nielsen Co.

Group VP Retail Design, Publisher: Doug Hope
Associate Publisher/National Sales Manager: Michael Uliss
Editor in Chief: RoxAnna Sway, I.S.P.
Senior Editor: Rachel Brown
Managing Editor: Alison Embrey Medina
Associate Editor/Web Editor: Jessie Bove
To contact our editorial team, click here.






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Chief Operating Officer: Greg Farrar
Senior Vice President, Human Resources: Michael Alicea
Senior Vice President, Finance: Derek Irwin
Senior Vice President, Travel, Performance & Marketing Services: William J. Cooke
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Media: Sabrina Crow
Senior Vice President, Film & Performing Arts: John Kilcullen
Senior Vice President, Music & Literary: John Kilcullen
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Planning: Tom Kuczynski
Senior Vice President, Retail: David Loechner
Senior Vice President, eMedia Strategy & Technology: Linda McCutcheon
Senior Vice President, Building Design: Joe Randall
Senior Vice President, Central Services: Mary Kay Sustek
Vice President, Licensing & Events: Howard Appelbaum
Vice President, Marketing Services: Drew DeSarle
Vice President/General Manager, Burrill Life Sciences Media Group, LLC: Zachary Dicker
Vice President, Manufacturing and Distribution: Jennifer Grego
Vice President, Audience Marketing: Joanne Wheatley

The Store Design Magazine that Inspires, Educates and Entertains


DDI magazine leads you exactly where you need to go for store display fixtures, store design industry news, webcasts, even an industry job search. In fact, it’s the only magazine retailers need for window designs, store display fixtures, floor plans and anything you can think of involving retail design, from the original concept to the final product.


RetailDesignDiva is the industry's first retail design Weblog dedicated to the issues, opinions and frustrations of the day. Click here to read the Diva's recent rantings.

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September 04, 2007

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September 13, 2007 - 2PM Eastern

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