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With the addition of EcoCarpet to its graphic media offerings, PosterGarden has made sustainability an option with nearly all of its portable displays. EcoCarpet is a soft polyester material made of 100 percent post-consumer waste in the form of recycled plastic bottles.

New York-based TBA Global, a live and online engagement marketing and communications agency, has sold it’s U.S. Destination Management division to the international leisure travel operator, Kuoni Group.

Westlake Village, Calif.-based Holo-Walls has entered into an agreement with Carlstadt, N.J.-based Total Entertainment that grants Total Entertainment the ability to be the northeast distributor and rental agent for Holo-Walls’ new Aqua Liquid Fusion interactive floor system.

Los Angeles-based FancyNap has expanded it’s biodegradable napkins into the ancient art of Origami with a new quality air-laid material that has the look, touch and feel of linen.

Aztec Tents has teamed with legendary tent designer Todd Dalland to launch an exciting initiative to bring technological and design innovations to the rental tent market. Aztec has retained Dalland to consult for its recently launched focus group which will explore new industrial advancements and strategies for developing the next generation of rental tents to hit the industry.

What is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is the process of defining a problem or task, putting out an open call to your community of attendees, and providing them with an opportunity to participate in the creative problem solving in exchange for some level of incentive or recognition. Crowdsourcing leverages mass collaboration enabled by Web 2.0 technologies.

CORT Event Furnishings has launched two new furnishing collections — Endless Seating and Gamer.

Endless Seating is a modular seating system that offers the flexibility to suit any event space. The collection features ottomans, high or low seat back curves and high or low seat back squares, enabling event designers to build seating solutions for 20 or 200 people in the same style.

To mark the installation of the last beam on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, the hospital threw a topping off ceremony. The celebration was held on December 7 in downtown Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art Plaza located across the street from the new hospital, which is scheduled to open in 2012.

Halethorpe, Md.-based Showcall Inc. and 4Wall Entertainment, headquartered in Las Vegas, have joined forces. Through an asset-based purchase of Showcall-owned BSL Productions, 4Wall brings its theatrical lighting inventory to Showcall and the Mid-Atlantic marketplace.

Germany-based theatrical equipment specialist Gerriets, created a ceiling element for the Mercedes-Benz booth at the International Auto Show in Frankfurt, Germany that took 12-18 people 14 days to install.