Cadillac Fairview presents $50,000 award to Toronto interior design and custom home furnishings store

Cadillac Fairview, one of North America's leading real estate developers, has awarded its $50,000 ARC (Achievement in New Retail Concepts) Award to Jane Hall and Ian Levack, principals of Jane Hall: The Voice of Color, a dynamic new interior design and custom home furnishings store situated in Toronto's Pape and Danforth area.

Peter Sharpe, Cadillac Fairview's President and CEO presented the $50,000 prize to Jane Hall and Ian Levack at fifth annual ARC Awards Gala held at Toronto's Design Exchange on February 28. Close to 200 top North American retailers attend the invitationonly event honouring innovative retail concepts and entrepreneurs.

" We were very impressed by the quality of candidates in this year's ARC Awards," Peter Sharpe stated. "Clearly retail in Canada is alive with dynamic new ideas and concepts and Jane Hall: The Voice of Color is a striking example of this innovation and vitality," he said. "1 would like to thank our three judges: Aldo Bensadoun, CEO and Founder of The Aldo Group, Diane 1. Brisebois, President and Chief Executive Officer of Retail Council of Canada, and Jeffrey Wortsman, President and CEO of Danier Leather Inc., for rising to the challenge of choosing a winning concept from such an outstanding array of new retail concepts.

Jane Hall: The Voice of Color was selected from more than 5 entries and four finalists which also included:
- The Art of Hardware of Calgary, Alberta
- Snap-on based in Sherway Gardens, Etobicoke, Ontario
- Upholstery Arts of Vancouver, British Columbia

To be eligible for the 2002 ARC Awards, candidates had to be retailers operating in -Canada who had launched a significan and innovative concept betwee April 3, 2000 and October 3 2001. Both new entrepreneu and established businesses wit new concept were eligible.

The success of Jane Hall: The Voice of Color is directly related to the creativity and originality of Hall and Levack, and also speak to a larger retail trend which indi cates that "home is indeed whey the heart is".

According to Statistics Canad Quarterly Retailer Commodit Survey, sales in the total hom furnishings category increased b 7.5% in the third quarter of 2001 This is the latest indication of trend in Canadian retail over th past five years for Canadians to spend more of their disposable income on home and home-related products (according to Statistics Canada Annual Retail Survey).

Jane Hall: The Voice of Color is located at 707 Pape Avenue, Toronto. Telephone: 416-4622949.