Forbes Magazine:

The Battle of the Christmas Trees

"We had to make First Union's (Wachovia's) decorations look better than its competition," says Stephen Stefanou, whose Dallas-based Design Solutions created elaborate Christmas decorations for the southeast's second-largest bank as well as for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. "We made number two look better than number one."

Stefanou also helped Atlanta's Lenox Square shopping center lure shoppers with a $2 million display encompassing an automated, lighted, Fantasia-esque fairies, and a kickoff party with costumed paratroopers enacting Santa's arrival at the mall.