After Paris 2024, furnishings and sporting gear will discover a second life

Ever marvel what occurs to all of the sports activities gear, furnishings, and different objects used to furnish the varied venues at main sporting occasions? Furnishings and gear from the olympic village and sporting venues in Paris are getting a second life courtesy of B-Inventory and our companion, RGS Occasions (speak about supporting the round financial system on an olympic scale!).

In help of its sustainable occasion administration initiatives, Olympic Sponsor, RGS Occasions – the official FF&E Challenge Supervisor of the Video games – is promoting over 45,000 items of furnishings, fixtures, and gear used to furnish the athlete flats, olympic village, and sporting venues. The objects, which embrace arcade video games (pool tables; ping pong tables, foosball tables), chairs (desk chairs, barber chairs, workplace chairs), sofas, tables, and benches, amongst different items, are being bought in bulk portions to the very best bidders and will probably be delivered following the Video games.

Actually, as of this weblog going stay, the vast majority of objects have already been bought and will probably be discovering a second life by 4 completely different enterprise consumers, all situated in Europe!

Listed here are some extra enjoyable information concerning the sale (showcasing what it takes to construct a village of olympic proportions!):

One purchaser bought 10 full truckloads of stock
6,000 chairs – together with desk chairs, barber chairs, workplace chairs, outdoors chairs, and ornamental chairs – have been up for grabs
3,000 sofas in various colours and sizes have been bought
The variety of belt limitations took the highest spot, with near 10,000 items out there
1000’s of lockers have been out there
The remaining objects are open for bidding at: https://bstock.com/majorsportingevent/

Check out among the objects up on the market:

This partnership between B-Inventory and RGS Occasions goals to redefine occasion administration and sustainability practices for main sporting occasions and displays each corporations’ dedication to decreasing waste and selling a second life for items. Enjoyable reality: within the first half of 2024 B-Inventory has bought over 350 million objects by way of our recommerce platform, stopping over 700 tons of stock from going into the landfill.

Right here’s what our two corporations needed to say:

“We’re proud to companion with RGS Occasions to provide our enterprise consumers across the globe the chance to safe a chunk of historical past,” mentioned Eric Moriarty, Vice President of Account Administration at B-Inventory. “This partnership exemplifies the facility of collaboration in advancing sustainability initiatives. Collectively, we are able to maximize the worth of surplus stock and decrease waste, contributing to a extra sustainable future.”

“This collaboration permits us to not solely ship a memorable occasion but additionally to advertise sustainability and accountable consumption. By giving our furnishings and gear a second life by B-Inventory, we’re contributing to a extra round financial system,” mentioned Elliot Ramler, Head of Industrial of RGS Occasions.

The furnishings and gear is being bought by B-Inventory’s a number of secondary market gross sales channels, together with an internet public sale storefront: https://bstock.com/majorsportingevent/.

With a whole bunch of hundreds of transactions accomplished yearly, we allow a second life for tens of millions of products, conserving them out of landfills. Companies of all sizes leverage the B-Inventory platform to promote and purchase returned, trade-in, overstock, and different extra merchandise. Our clients vary from the world’s largest manufacturers and retailers that need best-in-class extra stock administration to entrepreneurs seeking to supply helpful merchandise for his or her resale companies.