Display method for elongate products

Abstract

Elongate articles such as threaded rod and dowels are displayed for sale in a retail situation by inserting them standing generally vertically in a display device having formed from a molded plastics container where a bottom portion forms a base member molded integrally from a plastics material and lid forms a support grid member also molded from a plastics material and arranged to span the side walls. The bottom wall of the base member has upstanding walls for locating bottom ends of the articles. The lid has various openings across it through which the articles extend. The lid is supplemented by small containers at spaced positions therearound and a post each for receiving and displaying related articles. The lids and bases can be stored and shipped in nested condition and erected simply by snapping the lid onto the base.

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