In This Issue
Glee goes Floral Thursday for Greenfingers
Woodlodge’s ‘Fountain of Fizz’ raffle helps to raise vital funds for Greenfingers
Inspired by RHS and made in the UK
Impressive launches from Westland
Apta showcases Green Haus recycled indoor pots
Meet the new Fiskars' sales representatives
Johnsons Lawn Seed unveils Accelerator – the key to a lawn that germinates and establishes at speed
Beautifully-made wood cutting tools from Burgon & Ball
A clean sweep of home and garden accessories from Town & Country
Introducing NEW Timber Eco Shield
Zest continues to impress!
Stone King Amazing Stone Restorer wins New Product Award
To boldly grow, like no one has grown before
Garden Pride celebrates its 30th Birthday!
Are your customer’s lawns sweet enough, and if not, can you help them correct the imbalance?
Now...all the performance of Miracle-Gro - but organically
Made in Holland collection from Capi
Woodlodge launches Bee Kind pottery range
Multi award winners add to their honours list
Encouraging greenfingered children...that's the aim of Taylors Bulbs
Bringing the outdoors in with Pentik’s Nordic lifestyle concept
Bord na Móna launches Happy Compost range
Take the EKJU journey – a road map of sustainability and high standards
Visit The Sugar Shed Ltd Hall on stand 19B68
Fallen Fruits showcase stylish Fancy Flames collection
Easigrass showcase latest in its innovative product range
Glee visitors get 'Get Petface’d'
Season-long grass seed sales
Free pallet of Coffee Logs up for grabs
Greenhouse builder becomes a garden centre specialist
New Product Awards for Pets@Glee revealed
Glee Buyers Power List Winners Revealed
Boyd Douglas-Davies appointed as HTA President
Best Green Heart Display winners confirmed
Glee New Product Awards 2019 - Winners revealed
Glee New Products 2019 – Shortlisted Products
Natural Grower scoops the 2019 GIMA Innovators Seed Corn Fund 2019
Garden Re-Leaf 2020 officially launched at Glee
The Glee team make their #PowerOfOne pledges – what’s yours?
Join the Retail Lab and Discovery tours
Glee 2019 Retail Lab sponsor interview: Ivyline
Glee 2019 Retail Lab sponsor interview: Meadow View Stone
Glee 2019 Retail Lab sponsor interview: EKJU
Glee 2019 Retail Lab sponsor interview: Scheurich
Glee 2019 Retail Lab sponsor interview: Verona Group
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Glee 2019 Retail Lab sponsor interview: Meadow View Stone

We meet one of the sponsors of this year’s feature, Meadow View Stone, who brings over 25 years’ experience of supplying the widest range of imported and exclusive decorative aggregates and landscaping stone to the garden centre industry.

 

Meadow View Stone’s Marketing Director, Sarah Hill, said: “We’ve been a sponsor of the Retail Lab since its initial conception, and see it as a fantastic tool to not only showcase our products, but also view it as an opportunity to gain great insight into current trends/buying direction.

 

“For us, we view the Retail Lab as a great hub of inspiration, providing garden centre retailers and merchandisers with invaluable insight into how to display products in store to drive sales and provide effective cross selling opportunities.  We strongly support this theory as we have similarly merchandised a selection of our key accounts with extensive lifestyle display gardens, which have inspired and influenced customers and as a result returned excellent sales growth for these accounts.”

 

Whilst the Meadow View Stone team are still deciding which products will feature in the Retail Lab come September, Sarah has confirmed that a selection of the company’s porcelain

paving and some of its exciting new product lines - yet to be released - will form part of the various displays.

 

With future trends such a key focus of the Retail Lab, Sarah shares some of the key trends that have been shaping Meadow View Stone’s business in recent months, and will continue to influence future ranges. She said: “The colour grey has been a major influencer on both our paving and aggregate collections. This has been proven over the past two years and is featuring heavily in our product selections and sales performance for the immediate future.

 

Looking ahead to the wider show, Sarah added: “We will be maintaining the same core elements of the stand, with our extremely successful Gin Bar and Innovation Hub, both of which were immensely successful last year. 

 

“The Innovation Hub will continue to feature market leading insight into how garden centres can increase the sales value of their areas, whilst providing invaluable trend reports and case studies from customers who have embraced our stocking suggestions and recorded some excellent sales successes.  The Gin Bar, undoubtedly, is now an established part of our stand and provides an excellent informal and relaxed social space, allowing us to conduct private meetings whilst rewarding our customers with a well-earned drink!

 

“Our POS and innovative display gardens will also feature as a means to show retailers how to inspire their customers and generate increased sales. With two new product categories also to be unveiled we have an exciting collection of products and merchandising to suit every garden centre visiting Glee 2019.

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