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"Thank you for a vibrant Glee 2017"
Kelkay driving footfall and basket value
Meadow View Stone unveil new Urban Living Collection
Westland plan big spend on weeds and lawns for 2018
Clean sweep of Glee New Product Awards for I-Glo
NOMA Garden Art leads the way with NEW functional lighting range
Laura Ashley Planters create lots of interest for Apta
Johnsons Lawn Seed announce expanded salesforce and launch Lawn Thickener
Get your hands dirty and have more fun outdoors with Traditional Garden Games
Nematodes win Neudorff a new product award
Deco-Pak’s stepping stone among products featured on breakfast TV
Watertight trade partnership for DRiBOX
Eight new ranges from Briers
Tuning up…new from Woodstock Chimes®
Taylors Bulbs get set for continued Amaryllis and bulb gift sales increases
Evergreen Enterprises leads with quality, innovation and variety
Welcome to the fifth Glee Daily News for 2017
Last chance to win a firepit of booze, courtesy of Woodlodge
JAVADO win Best Plant Display Award
Vitax puts renewed focus on point of sale
Show debut for Mr Fothergill's new David Domoney range
Adam hands over to Adam at the HTA
BBC Breakfast broadcasts live from Glee
Time to grow: Glee 2018
bio-bean scoops the 2017 GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund
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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
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Retail Lab @ Glee is here to stay
Great British Card Company present charity cheques
Glee New Product Awards 2017 - Winners revealed
Glee Buyers Power List 2017: the winners
GTN's Greatest Plant Retailing Awards presented at Glee
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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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