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A business created from making high value added stylish items from recycled materials

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  • 31-03-2009 8:19pm
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    Freitag – makes fashionable bags, computer cases, wallets etc from recycled materials......

    Switzerland has been recycling for decades, and a new generation has grown up, people who were born into the recycling generation, and some of them are now creating high value added fashionable stuff from recycled materials.

    www.freitag.ch is a prime example. Their factory is located in high cost Zürich.

    A better, more sustainable solution compared with dumping leftovers on a slow boat the China......

    Company facts & figures

    - Headquarters: FREITAG lab. AG / Maag works, Zurich, Switzerland
    - Founding year: 1993
    - Founders & Owners: Markus and Daniel Freitag
    - Workforce: 76 in Zurich, 2 in Davos, 4 in Hamburg and 3 in Cologne

    - No. of shops: 4 own flagship-stores (Cologne, Hamburg, Davos, Zurich), over 350 point of sales worldwide
    - 2 online shops: Zurich for Switzerland and worldwide deliveries, Hamburg for Europe

    - Material use: 200 tons of truck tarps = line of trucks 50 km long; 75,000 bicycle inner tubes; 25,000 seatbelts
    - No. of models: over 40 items

    Awards:
    - 1997 Award from Design Prize Switzerland
    - 1997 The 1993 prototype is added to the collection of the Museum for Design, Zurich
    - 1999 Award from the Federal Competition for Applied Arts
    - 2003 Gold for the F-Cut from the Art Directors Club Switzerland, in the category of Electronic Publishing
    - 2003 Gold for the F-Cut from Art Directors Club Europe in the category of New & Mixed Media / Interactive Media
    - 2003 Master of Swiss Web for the F-Cut as the best Swiss website
    - 2003 Top Cat model is added to the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York
    - 2006 Contractworldaward
    - 2006 ADC-Schweiz
    - 2007 The FREITAG Shop Zurich wins the yellow pencil at the D&D Awards in London
    - 2008 Best of swiss web: Gold in Business Efficiency; Silver in Creation
    - 2008 1. Award for Marketing and Architecture for the F-Shop in Zurich
    - 2009 Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gold for the F-Shop in Zurich in the Product Design category


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