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Glee Buyers Power List 2017: the winners
The Landscape Project - demonstrating versatility and creating broader category opportunities
Make sure you visit on the final day of Glee
Awards hat-trick for Burgon & Ball
Meadow View Stone unveils new website
NOMA Garden Art leads the way with NEW functional lighting range
Tildenet give Haxnicks brand a fresh new look
GTN's Greatest Plant Retailing Awards presented at Glee
Novelty planters are a huge hit for Apta
Johnsons Lawn Seed grows business with Workforce
Job done: nothing kills weeds faster and prevents for longer!
Early indications show burning desire for La Hacienda!
Deco-Pak commit to traditional garden centres
Give Room to Nature with Elho @ Glee
The next generation of slug and snail control
Huge demand for Made in Holland range
Aidan’s glove joins Briers new kids range
Supercharged heat logs from CPL are a big hit
Opportunity to have your own label pet food within 7 days
Creative Products' no risk retail sees new products and top sellers
New product total success for Zest at Glee
Seed Potatoes the main topic of discussion at Taylors Bulbs
Petface Parlour creates a buzz
Welcome to the fifth Glee Daily News for 2017
Adam hands over to Adam at the HTA
JAVADO win Best Plant Display Award
BBC Breakfast broadcasts live from Glee
Chance to win a firepit of booze, courtesy of Woodlodge
Time to grow: Glee 2018
bio-bean scoops the 2017 GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund
Vitax puts renewed focus on point of sale
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Back British Business urges Durstons
Crest launch stunning new POS campaign
Glee Green Heart grows again for 2017
It’s the year of pets at Glee 2017
Show debut for Mr Fothergill's new David Domoney range
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Glee New Product Awards 2017 - Winners revealed
Evergreen Enterprises leads with quality, innovation and variety
Patio Black Spot Remover hits the right spot
Glee visitors will get warm welcome from STV
Get your hands dirty and have more fun outdoors with Traditional Garden Games
Get to know DJ Turfcare’s bestsellers
Paving perfection from Block Blitz
Bord na Móna to showcase products from Growise range
Pot Company launches ‘The Heritage Collection’
Introduction to Empathy Liquid After Plant
Westland plan big spend on weeds and lawns for 2018
Woodstock Chimes – It’s All About the Sound
Blumen turn heads with adventurous seed ranges
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bio-bean scoops the 2017 GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund

A proven vehicle for celebrating grass roots development and true innovation, the GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund (GISCF) has already contributed to helping three brands crack the garden retail market both here and across the globe. This year, another company is set to benefit from the GISCF excellent prize package. Introducing the 2017 winners – bio-bean. 

 

A clean technology company, bio-bean has industrialised the process of recycling spent coffee grounds into advanced biofuels and biochemicals. It was the company’s Coffee Logs that captured the attention of the judges thanks to its simplicity and environmentally friendly nature.

Beating off stiff competition, bio-bean – as GISCF winners - will receive support up to the value of £6,000 to help with development and marketing costs associated with entering the UK garden retail market, including a year’s full GIMA membership, and a wide range of business support tools.

 

Coffee Logs are quite simply, a fuel for stoves, wood burners and chimeneas. The difference comes from the fact that the logs are each made from 25 cups of spent coffee grounds. These compressed coffee grounds produce more heat and burn longer than wood, making them not just cost efficient but help to lower emissions and reduce waste.

 

GIMA Director, Vicky Nuttall said: “We’re incredibly pleased to confirm that bio-bean is the 2017 winner of the GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund.  The company, its processes and resulting product are not just innovative, but they are also changing the way we think about traditional heating methods, and how recycling of an everyday bi-product can reduce waste and lower our environmental impact. bio-bean are certainly opening a wide conversation about waste and how it can be reinvented. We’re so pleased to be helping them reach a wider audience.”

 

In addition to choosing a winner, the panel also selected two highly commended companies.  Those just missing out on the highly coveted title were:

  • Screen with Envy - Made from an advanced mix of wood and composite, these UK designed modular garden screens and trellises are unique in the market. Offered in a variety of sizes, colours and stunning designs, the products look like wood, and can be cut to size like wood. However, due to the composite mix of the material, they won’t warp, rot, mould or age. They are UV treated and fully waterproof.
  • SmartPlant™ - SmartPlant is the app for people with plants. The app provides plant and pest identification, monthly plant care advice and the ability to chat with over 100 regional plant experts. With hundreds of thousands of downloads and an instore presence in over 110 plant retail locations in both the UK and USA, SmartPlant is focussed on making sure everyone can grow beautiful, healthy plants. SmartPlant’s latest innovation, SmartPlant barcode scanning technology, allows people to scan the barcode of their new plants and automatically receive monthly care advice.

 

As the winner, bio-bean is now set to receive funding and help with the development and marketing of their product, together with support from experts within the industry.

To find out more about the GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund please join GIMA on-stand at Glee 2017, Hall 20, stand P44-Q55.

 

Visit bio-bean at Glee, NEC Birmingham (Hall 20 Stand A31) 11th – 13th September 2017.

 

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