PROVIDING TOTALLY SUSTAINABLE RETAIL STORES

Founder of suburban Chicago-based Total Resource Group (TRG), Bruce Olans has worked with retailers large and small, for more than two decades. With its turnkey "Store-in-a-Box" program, TRG assumes responsibility for literally every aspect of a store-opening process from the design, engineering,

manufacturing and installation of custom store fixtures, made from wood, laminate, acrylic and metal, to graphics, exterior signage, floor coverings, wall coverings, computer installations and every other imaginable detail. Kelly Templer of the Sanderson Company has supplied this background information. For additional information, Templer can be e-mailed at: kelly@sandersonpr.com.

Olans, who logs tens of thousands of miles on the road each year, was recently visiting retailers in New York City where he noticed piles of construction residue materials in dumpsters that would eventually be sent to landfills. TRG has provided some sustainable products over the past five years to customers but it represented only a small percentage of business. Olans began researching sustainable products in the construction industry and found that everything going into construction dumpsters today could be saved and recycled. He recently made the decision to make TRG and the products the company offers completely sustainable by June 2007. This includes everything from floors to office chairs. TRG will be the first company of its kind to be providing totally sustainable retail stores.