The Top 100 Giants kick off the 75th anniversary of Interior Design with their own numbers to celebrate. To begin with, a tie in earnings increased the actual number of giants to 101—which, together, earned $2,080,060,594. Accounting for the additional Giant, that's an increase of 17.6 percent in average earnings over the previous year. Only 12 firms posted losses, and two firms remained at their previous level.
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Perhaps most interesting, the total earnings figure is 30 percent more than the top Giants' income in 2001, the last great year before a deteriorating economy and terrorist attacks had a chance to wallop the design industry along with everyone else. Since then, the dollar value of Giant installations has increased 34 percent to $47,390,842,736, and total space installed has risen 7.2 percent to 611,912,884 square feet.
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Foreign work has steadily increased from 7.5 percent for the 2001 ranking to 11.6 percent for 2006. Only 27 of the Giants worked exclusively in the U.S., with the vast majority of those falling in the lower 50 rankings. China drew 37 Giants, followed by the United Arab Emirates at 26, the U.K. at 25, India at 18, South Korea at 14, Canada and Mexico at 13 and 12 respectively, Russia at nine, France and Japan at eight, Hong Kong, Italy, Qatar and Thailand at seven, and Singapore at six.
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