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October DDI Magazine awards the Charles Sparks team with the Most Exciting Design Firm Portfolio Award for exceptional retail design work in the year 2008.  
October Charles Sparks receives recognition by DDI Magazine for being nominated by his peers as a “ Retail Design Influencer,” a select group of retail design professionals who have raised the bar in their industry.  
June 8 The Contemporary Jewish Museum Store opens.  
March 8 Sparks earns Chain Store Age’s 2007 Retail Store of the Year Design Competition First Place Award for Best Buy, Upper West Side, New York City.  
March 8 Sparks earns Chain Store Age’s 2007 Retail Store of the Year Design Competition First Prize in the Museum Shops category for the Chicago Botanic Garden Shop.  
February Starbucks Corporation engages Charles Sparks + Company as one of several consultants in the strategic development of new concepts for their stores.  
February 15 Starbucks awards Sparks design contract for the Chicago Market Relevance Project.  
January 14 Sparks receives special category award for Innovative Finishes/Uses for the Chicago Botanic Garden Shop from the ISP/VM+SD 2007 International Store Design Competition.  
January 14 The Retail Design Institute, formerly known as The Institute of Store Planners, inducts Charles Sparks into its Retail Legion of Honor in recognition of outstanding career achievement in the field of retail store design.