Sustainability

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Product: Sport watches
Number of displays: 900
P-O-P company: Tenneco Packaging, Los Angeles
Distribution: Athletic specialty and sporting goods stores
Introduction: October 1996
Duration: Permanent
Construction: Recycled aluminum cans, acrylic
Replacing wood with aluminum, Freestyle updated and improved one of its most successful countertop watch display cases.

Product: Hiking boots and other active footwear
Number of displays: 10,000
P-O-P company: Prairie fish, Chicago
Distribution: Specialty outdoor and sporting goods stores
Introduction: April 1996
Duration: Permanent
Construction: Reclaimed pine lumber and recycled steel wire
A slatwall display from Merrell Footwear offers an angled wire frame that supports the shoe and allows the tread to be displayed to customers.

Product: Thermal underwear
P-O-P company: Prairie Fish, Chicago
Distribution: Specialty outdoor stores
Introduction: October 1996
Duration: Permanent
Construction: Recycled wood
The four-shelf kiosk for Patagonia's thermal underwear features components made from recycled wood products. The approach emphasizes the company's environmental awareness, which has also seen it reduce its packaging needs by more than 20 tons of paper in the last two years.