Our design team is always looking for design trends and documenting different styles that are current in the world of point of purchase design and retail store fixtures. Our team likes the variety and branding-building image of the fixtures in stores like Anthropologie. Since we are located in Southern California we also like to frequent surf shops and boutiques that are home to a lot of action sports companies and other lifestyle companies that help to set fixture trends in the industry. We like how these companies use clear coated metal, reclaimed wood, and other natural materials. Today’s blog is more of a survey blog. Our objective is to show a number of examples of product merchandisers that are made of metal piping and plumbing fixtures. Industrial pipe retail displays have a cool look that creates an interesting vibe for a lot of products and retail environments.
Jim Hollen is the owner and President of RICH LTD. (www.richltd.com), a 35+ year-old California-based point-of-purchase display, retail store fixture, and merchandising solutions firm which has been named among the Top 50 U.S. POP display companies for 9 consecutive years. A former management consultant with McKinsey & Co. and graduate of Stanford Business School, Jim Hollen has served more than 3000 brands and retailers over more than 20 years and has authored nearly 500 blogs and e-Books on a wide range of topics related to POP displays, store fixtures, and retail merchandising.
Jim has been to China more than 50 times and has worked directly with more than 30 factories in Asia across a broad range of material categories, including metal, wood, acrylic, injection molded and vacuum formed plastic, corrugated, glass, LED lighting, digital media player, and more. Jim Hollen also oversees RICH LTD.’s domestic manufacturing operation and has experience manufacturing, sourcing, and importing from numerous Asian countries as well as Vietnam and Mexico.
His experience working with brands and retailers spans more than 25 industries such as food and beverage, apparel, consumer electronics, cosmetics/beauty, sporting goods, automotive, pet, gifts and souvenirs, toys, wine and spirits, home improvement, jewelry, eyewear, footwear, consumer products, mass market retail, specialty retail, convenience stores, and numerous other product/retailer categories.