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Industry high after thriving Glee exhibition
Kelkay driving footfall and basket value
Meadow View Stone unveil a new customer experience
Retail Lab @ Glee: Creative Director Romeo Sommers gives his verdict
Retail Lab @ Glee: Interview with WGSN’s Lisa White
Burgon & Ball has Christmas gifting all wrapped up!
GIMA Buyer Connect declared a great success
Garden supplier's £4.5m investment in Ashford
Johnsons enhances lawn seed and salesforce at Glee
Job done: nothing kills weeds faster and prevents for longer!
Amazing response to Premier’s sensational new launch
Deco-Pak focus on traditional garden centres
Super Bright Glee for Smart Garden Products
Successful show for Kadai Firebowls
Westland launch ‘We Are Gardening' campaign
Successful Glee for Traditional Garden Games
Great response to Gold Leaf Gloves' new RHS Collection
Briers’ new products reinforce quality
Great response to Great Sense range
New range of cutting tools from Pedigree Garden
Bright outlook for Zest 4 Leisure
Woodstock Chimes: Musical Perfection with a Lifetime Tuning Guarantee
Seed potatoes the main topic of discussion at Taylors Bulbs
Evergreen Enterprises leads with quality, innovation and variety
Patio Black Spot Remover hits the right spot
Another successful Glee for award winners Vivagreen
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Glee New Product Awards
Glee Buyers Power List 2017: the winners
Clean sweep of Glee New Product Awards for I-Glo
GTN's Greatest Plant Retailing Awards
JAVADO win Best Plant Display Award
Great British Card Company present charity cheques
Tildenet enjoys growing support at Glee 2017
Vitax on point with its marketing
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
Back British Business urges Durstons
Crest launch stunning new POS campaign
A Glee-full week for Greenfingers Charity
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Industry high after thriving Glee exhibition


The doors to Glee 2017 may now be closed, but the industry praise continues to be heard. From busy aisles, full-to-capacity exhibiting space, a positive, business-building atmosphere and the strongest ever offering of focussed added value features – including the hugely popular Retail Lab @ Glee – this year’s event has proven that Glee’s evolution is continuing to hit the mark for the industries it represents....
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Kelkay driving footfall and basket value


Just twelve months after the launch of their new branding and merchandising system, Kelkay have continued their extraordinary work rate by launching more than 80 new products, two completely new brands, a volume-driving promotional for aggregates and a totally new concept for outdoor landscape merchandising and point of sale...
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Meadow View Stone unveil a new customer experience


Visitors to Glee this year were able to explore a new and extended range of products being unveiled on the Meadow View Stone stand. With 12 new decorative aggregates and over 20 additions to their paving collection, Meadow View have placed consumer trends at the heart of their product development process.
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Retail Lab @ Glee: Creative Director Romeo Sommers gives his verdict


The Retail Lab @ Glee has been voted a huge success. Here Creative Director, Romeo Sommers gives his verdict on the exhibition's latest feature...
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Retail Lab @ Glee: Interview with WGSN’s Lisa White
As Head and Creative Director of WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors, Lisa White and her team run the only B2B trend forecasting website focused on interiors and product design. Lisa was part of the team Retail Lab, a must-see part of Glee 2017. Here we talk to her about trends and how they can influence the decision of the consumer...
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Burgon & Ball has Christmas gifting all wrapped up!


This year’s Glee saw the launch of more than 70 new products from Burgon & Ball, including plenty of gorgeous gifts for gardeners and plant lovers. These fresh ideas are sure to help retailers put together a tempting array of must-have gifts for the Christmas season ahead...
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GIMA Buyer Connect declared a great success


The GIMA Buyer Connect event has become one of the most highly-anticipated parts of the annual Glee exhibition’s programme of content. This year the event brought together even more suppliers and retailers, helping to facilitate in excess of 250 unrivalled networking opportunities...
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Garden supplier's £4.5m investment in Ashford
Ashford-based Vatre Terracotta Ltd, which trades as Apta, has secured planning permission for a £4.5m warehouse, storage and distribution centre...



Brian Fraser of Oakover Nurseries (left) and Vatre Terracotta Ltd Managing Director Paul Sykes at the Tutt Hill site on the A20 north west of Ashford.
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Johnsons enhances lawn seed and salesforce at Glee



At this year’s Glee, Johnsons Lawn Seed (DLF) launched its next bestseller to the market, Lawn Thickener, demonstrating the quality of the product in living displays, whilst also announcing a newly expanded national salesforce.

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Job done: nothing kills weeds faster and prevents for longer!
SBM Life Science has launched a hard hitting hitting revolutionary new weedkiller brand, a key element in SBM Life Science’s new strategy, New Time, New Way, announced earlier this year, at the heart of which is a commitment to innovation.
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Amazing response to Premier’s sensational new launch


A brand new catalogue of products launched under the umbrella of two exciting new brands captured the attention of visitors to Glee this year, The Outdoor Living Company and The Summer Living Company – both fresh new inspirations from Premier...
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Deco-Pak focus on traditional garden centres
Decorative aggregates specialist Deco-Pak has announced it will be refocussing its business strategy, with garden centre customers at the heart of the move...



Deco-Pak’s One Penny stepping stone became the star of BBC Breakfast’s news.
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Super Bright Glee for Smart Garden Products
Smart Garden’s successful year continued at Glee with a marked increase in orders while new introductions in its renowned solar lighting range proved a hit with retailers...
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Successful show for Kadai Firebowls


Glee 2017 was another successful event for Kadai Firebowls, with new stockists coming on board and existing customers looking forward to working with Kadai into 2018...
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Westland launch ‘We Are Gardening' campaign


Glee saw the unveiling of the new ‘We Are Gardening' campaign which talks to everyone with a space and an urge to grow. Whether they have a traditional house with a garden, a flat or apartment with a balcony, a small patio or backyard or even no outside space at all, everyone with an urge to grow has a windowsill...
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Successful Glee for Traditional Garden Games

Exhibiting for the first time at Glee, established UK brand Traditional Garden Games are already reaping the benefits the show has offered the business – with considerable orders secured and interest from across the globe...

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Great response to Gold Leaf Gloves' new RHS Collection
The owners of Gold Leaf Gardening Gloves were overwhelmed by the response to their new RHS Collection which won Best New Product in the Home, Gift and Clothing Products category at Glee...



Owners Peter and Kelly Cooney with their Glee New Product Award.
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Briers’ new products reinforce quality

Launching eight new ranges at this year’s Glee exhibition, leading garden lifestyle brand, Briers, was more keen to display its commitment to higher standards for quality and how that has stepped up even further in the last 12 months...

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Great response to Great Sense range


The outdoor furniture rattan range, aluminium collections and new LED parasols from Great Sense had a great reception at Glee 2017. The company had a lot of interest and secured a decent amount of pre-orders and containers for 2018.
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New range of cutting tools from Pedigree Garden
Pedigree Garden launched their brand new range of cutting tools at this year's Glee . All have a "Lifetime Guarantee" as standard, are lightweight and 'easy to clean', which keeps the tools looking their very best at all times of the year no matter how many times they are used...
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Bright outlook for Zest 4 Leisure


Zest 4 Leisure’s new product range for 2018, the announcement of its warehouse and distribution centre purchase, a new operations system and new HR director, means a bright outlook for the new garden leisure season...
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Woodstock Chimes: Musical Perfection with a Lifetime Tuning Guarantee
Glee Stand 19A02
The music made by Woodstock Chimes is perfectly authentic because it’s tuned to real scales and melodies heard throughout the world from ancient times to the present...
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Seed potatoes the main topic of discussion at Taylors Bulbs


Seed potatoes for the coming season were the main topic of conversation on the Taylors Bulbs stand at Glee this year, according to Adam Taylor, Director of the fourth generation family business.
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Evergreen Enterprises leads with quality, innovation and variety
As a leading worldwide supplier of Garden Décor, Evergreen Enterprises is quickly becoming known in the UK as an innovative and dynamic vendor, offering a wide variety of quality, on-trend products...
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Patio Black Spot Remover hits the right spot


Patio Black Spot Remover has changed people’s perception of the performance and success of patio cleaners, giving instant results, at a better than professional standard...
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Another successful Glee for award winners Vivagreen
The team from Vivagreen reported a second busy Glee following their debut at the 2016 event when they were awarded the GIMA innovators Award. This year the stand was buzzing with key buyers from a number of large independent retailers, and the team reported lots of new listings for  their unique MossOff Chemical-Free...
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