Nintendo World Opens As Retail Destination
Nintendo recently opened its first retail store in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza.
Featuring 10,000 square feet of retail space and two stories of interactive fun for all ages, Nintendo World is a one-of-a-kind interactive entertainment and retail destination.
Highlights of the store include a selection of exclusive Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo GameCube and Pokemon merchandise not found at any other store in the world.
There are over 50 interactive stations featuring the hottest Nintendo games and an extensive multi-player gaming wall featuring Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS systems.
A surround sound gaming lounge offers consumers a place to play and feel like they are part of the game-complete with rumble seats. The Pokemon Center features exclusive merchandise, state-of-the-art demo stations and an Ultra-Pokedex.
Other highlights include an extensive Nintendo DS sampling station; and a complete GameBoy Advance SP “bar” where consumers can grab a barstool and play a variety of games.
QuikTrip Stores Launch Interactive Kiosks
A new check-cashing and bill payment mini-kiosk is launching at QuikTrip convenience stores. CashWorks, a GE Consumer Finance Company, is offering both bill payment and check-cashing services through its new mini-kiosk platform.
Customers, including those with cash but not a CashWorks card can pay bills to more than 4,400 companies including utilities, cable, and phone service providers. The CashWorks kiosk can approve transactions for first-time users in minutes. Once a customer is enrolled, transactions typically take less than one minute.
According to CashWorks’ research, 45% of consumers who use the check-cashing service make purchases on the spot, and 81% say they plan to use the kiosk in the future.
Utix Merchandisers Display Prepaid Gift Tickets
Utix Group, a marketer of prepaid experience gift tickets, has unveiled its “Live It-Give it” concept and an attractive merchandiser designed for high-profile display of the Company’s prepaid gift tickets.
Working closely with its strategic partner InComm, Utix has developed an appealing in-store merchandiser that can be easily incorporated into a retailer’s gift center. Centered on the Company’s new promotional theme, “Live It-Give It,” the merchandiser will highlight Utix prepaid tickets, including each of its popular sports recreation, leisure and entertainment offerings. The display unit will enable Utix to introduce new prepaid experiences as they are developed.
Gambrinus Offers Retailers Pacifico Clara Tacker
The Gambrinus Company, an importer of various popular beers, featured this bright Tacker Display showing an ice-cold bottle with a yellow label and matching surfboard, used to solidify Pacifico’s image and promote the brand among beer drinkers.
Over l300 of these signs were distributed in coastal areas to bars, restaurants, and special events to encourage brand awareness.
This screen printed Aluminum sign was die cut to create a unique shape and embossed to give the piece a 3-dimensional effect. The Pacifico Clara Tacker was created by May Advertising International, Ltd., a Ft. Worth, TX-based p.o.p. display firm.
Displays Support Rain Bird’s Landscape Dripline System
Rain Bird’s new Landscape Dripline System for do-it-yourself installation, is being launched with in-store merchandising, packaging and other marketing support materials.
The displays are designed to help launch the product in hardware stores, home improvement centers and mass merchandisers, and help make water-saving "drip" irrigation easier for the consumer to understand and select. Rain Bird is a leading manufacturer of irrigation systems.
The displays, packaging and other marketing support materials were designed by Heinzeroth Marketing Group, a Rockford, IL-based marketing design firm.
Amerimax Building Products offers StarBrite, a polished aluminum tread plate with display applications. StarBrite is made of a light gauge polished aluminum with an embossed tread plate finish to replicate that of heavy gauge steel tread plate at a fraction of the cost. For more information, contact Amerimax, 5208 Tennyson Pkwy., Plano, TX 75024; (Tel) 800-258-6295, (Web) www.amerimaxbp.com.
Merchandising Inventives, Inc. produces aluminum banner and sign stands. The elegant banner stand can be used with one or two banners and has a height range of 36" to 96". It includes four 24" long dowels made for ½" hemmed banners. The complete sign stand includes one 11"W x 14"H frame with radius corners and one telescoping pole that adjusts from 16" up to 50" as well as one 11" flat round base. For more information, contact Merchandising Inventives, 1665 South Waukegan Road, Waukegan, IL 60085; (Tel) 847-775-6956, (Fax) 847-688-0748, (Web Site) www.merchinv.com.
HoloDeem Coupon Machine Uses 3D Holographic Technology
The HoloDeem Coupon Machine promotes the use of coupons via a self-service, interactive touch screen kiosk equipped with patented 3D holographic technology.
The HoloDeem Coupon Machine displays Holo-mercials, patented 3D aerial holographic commercials that attract attention while inviting consumers to view and print coupons via self-service touch screen technology located inside the entrance to grocery stores, department stores and shopping malls. This unique marketing approach provides the power of an interactive media experience to promote branding and product launches together with an innovative, new way to coupon.
For more information, contact HoloDeem, Inc.,100 State Street South, Kirkland, WA 98033; (Tel) 866-465-6333; (Fax) 425-576-1590; www.holodeem.com.
Category: Permanent Displays
Display Producer: Nashville Display
306 Hartmann Drive, Lebanon, TN 37087
This 2-tier display was created to merchandise Mizuno golf gloves in sports stores, golf and pro shops. It can be used as a counter display or hung on slatwall and is constructed from metal, wire and plastic. The front of the display is laser cut out in a racetrack pattern with a transparent Mizuno blue plastic insert, screened with the Mizuno logo. This unique treatment attracts attention and provides strong brand identity.
Category: Permanent Displays
Display Producer: Harbor Industries, Inc.
14130 172nd Street, Grand Haven, MI 49417
The Franke sink display is used to display three different premium clay fired sinks. The main objective was to develop a display that would show each sink mounted to a counter surface in a small footprint. Two of the sinks are mounted in pull out drawers. These drawers were designed so that only one can be pulled out at a time to ensure the stability of the unit. Franke developed an upper add-on module to display a fourth sink in the same footprint.
Category: Permanent Displays
Display Producer: Nashville Display
306 Hartmann Drive, Lebanon, TN 37087
This pallet display was designed to merchandise Professional Landscape Tools, including trimmers and chain saws for Tractor Supply Stores. It is constructed from 4" round tubing, metal and wire. The black skid base features a diamond plate top, which provides an accent for the display and visual appeal. The MTD logo is screened on the metal headers and delivers strong brand identity.
Category: Permanent Displays
Display Producer: Sterling Promotional Corp.
30l0 Westchester Avenue, Purchase, NY l0577
This Covey Run Bakers Rack drew much attention at the point of sale to the brands featured. The rack can be used over and over and then given to the dealer as an incentive.
Category: Permanent Displays
Display Producer: Lingo Manufacturing Co., Inc.
7400 Industrial Road, Florence, KY 41042
Flora was tired of the same old cheap and boring displays that have saturated the Natural Foods industry. It needed a display that would convey the same earthy, natural look and feel, just as their teas do. By using a variety of manufacturing processes and materials, Lingo Manufacturing was able to do just that. This display has a small footprint and a very large product capacity. The display design fits perfectly on any crowded counter top and looks more like furniture than a display. The display was constructed of heavy gauge rolled wire, bull-nosed steel shelving, heavy gauge, laser cut logo steel base, four-color process signage and rustic powder coat finish.
Display Producer: Permanent Displays
Display Producer: Thorco Industries
1300 E. 12th Street, Lamar, MO 64759
The Dayspring International Calendar 5-panel spinner was designed to be a sturdy, visually appealing display with a minimum footprint. Each of the 5 panels uses engineered-in flexibility to display a variety of inspirational wall, pocket or purse calendars, desk planners, magnetic calendars, memo pads and related products. Great importance was placed on maximum product load-in, flexible display options and variable product mix both in and out of season. The all satin black powder coated metal and wire components are complimented by smoked acrylic end panels and wood grain laminate top and bottom caps. The display is topped by a die-cut graphic panel.
Category: Permanent Displays
Display Producer: Trion Industries, Inc.
297 Laird Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
Trion's new EWT Security Units provide an anti-shoplifting alternative by allowing only the front-most item to be removed one-at-a-time, while still permitting customers to purchase a single product trouble-free. Auto feed forwards fresh product for the next sale. EWT Security Units are available in a range of sizes from 5" to 12" wide (mini system from 3" to 6"), and are made-to-order to secure any size product. Units can be arranged for multiple facings and families of products. Security Units shelf-mount via front rail and pushpins or wall-mount via Quick Back Pegboard Backplates.
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