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Market buzzing after a thriving Glee
Busy aisles, full-to-capacity exhibiting space and a positive, business-building atmosphere were the hallmarks of this year’s Glee garden trade exhibition. Matthew Mein (above), i2i Events Glee event director, confirmed that feedback from visitors and exhibitors had been exceptional...
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Kelkay celebrating after ‘best ever’ Glee
Kelkay says Glee 2015 was its most successful show ever. The aggregates market-leader generated huge interest as it presented 91 new products to garden centre buyers and gift retailers at the show. It also picked up the first runner up prize in the Best Landscaping & Construction category of the Glee New Products Awards 2015.
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Deco-Pak provides Eastern Promise at Glee
Deco-Pak proved its market-leading qualities at Glee this year by taking home a highly commended Retailer’s Choice award. The 90cm tall Buddha’s head was highly commended by judges who praised the product as being “exciting and eye-catching”...
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A successful Glee for Grange
Leading decorative garden structures and fencing company, Grange is reporting an incredibly successful Glee this year, which saw the launch of three brand new ranges - Contemporary, Urban and Valencia - along with a brand new identity and new website design...
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Uuni pizza oven was the Retailers Choice
The winner of the Glee Retailers Choice Award for 2015 was the Uuni 2 woodfired pizza oven...
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Stax Trade Centres to list full Empathy and RHS rootgrow ranges
For the first time the full retail range of Empathy and rootgrow products will be available to independent garden centres and gardening retailers through a nationwide wholesaler...
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RHS Heritage planters score with visitors to the Apta stand
The stylish RHS Heritage range of planters on the Apta stand were a hit with visitors...
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Westland and Arthur Bowers were a close fit at Glee
 
Just six weeks after Westland's purchase of Arthur Bowers, Growing Success and other businesses from Sinclairs, the Westland stand was busy all show as retailers found out more about the plans for the brands going forwards...
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Zest 4 Leisure unveil their impressive 2016 range
GIMA award winners Zest 4 Leisure are impressing Glee visitors (stand 20L30-M31) with their 2016 range of dining sets, benches and an outdoor bar and table set...
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Sweeping success for Bosmere at Glee
Bosmere launched a new range of FSC-timber approved brushes at Glee and they created lots of interest over the three days. The Lawnmower Brush was a particlar favourite, said sales and marketing director Steve Millington...
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Besp-Oak show their class with stylish products
The Besp-Oak stand was a hive of activity on all three days of the show and a particular favourite was the range of Vintage Display Crates...
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Westland 'Sow Smart' sets out to revolutionise tomato growing
Westland unveiled their new Sow Smart concept - pre-sown modules that enable any consumer to successfully grow tomatoes from seed, whatever their experience level...
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Handy Distribution prove that Gardena products are frost-proof
Handy Distribution encased their Gardena range of hose-end accessories in a block of ice to prove the products are 100% frost proof...
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The world's finest garden rooms, now under your own brand name
When it comes to the world’s finest garden buildings, there is one brand that stands head-and-shoulders above the rest: Crown Pavilions. With clients ranging from celebrities like Duncan Bannatyne and Gloria Hunniford to Champneys Health Spas and European royalty, customers know that if they want the very best then they should ask for Crown Pavilions by name...
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Woodlodge launch Heritage Bistro set
Woodlodge Products are extending their hugely popular Heritage range with the addition of many new pot designs, high quality glazed bird baths and a range of style bistro sets (comprising two chairs and a table) in pastel shades...
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Fruity pouffe wins Glee's garden leisure new product award
Winner of the Garden Leisure category in Glee’s New Product Awards was a delightful outdoor pouffe from Fallen Fruits, testimony to the adage that ‘simple is best’...
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Award means Baksaver Barrow is Glee's best new bit of kit
An ingenious wheelbarrow that you don’t have to tip to push or push to tip won the Best Machinery and Tools category in Glee’s New Product Awards...
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Melcourt SylvaGrow...RHS endorsed and a Glee winner
Building on their reputation for reliable, quality growing media the Melcourt Industries team were delighted to win a Glee new product award.
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Petface's fresh approach to the bird sector wins award
The Wild Bird Range was an instant hit when it was unveiled to visitors to the Petface stand and the team were celebrating winning a new product award for the Loktop 2 Mealworm Feeder...
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Spear & Jackson - something for any ‘occasion’
The Spear & Jackson stand was busy at Glee buoyed by the news of winning a new product award for their ‘Occasions’ range of gift packaged hand trowels. This unique product is etched with the appropriate message on the tool and well as being on the box...
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Acclaim for Hozelock's hi-tech watering solution
Hozelock’s win in the garden care (accessories) category of the Glee New Product Awards was widely predicted, bringing as it does the hi-tech world of internet technology to garden watering...
Above: Hozelock's Adrian Davey on the Cloud Controller display.
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Raspberry ‘Ruby Beauty’ wins new product award
Staff at Wyevale Nurseries were celebrating after their new plant Raspberry ‘Ruby Beauty’ won the Glee New Product Award for Best Plant, Seeds and Bulbs...
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Small is beautiful at Vivid Arts
Winner of the Glee new products award for landscaping and construction, the Vivid Arts introduction is deliberately on a small scale. The new Miniature World collection provides plenty of scope for garden centres to capitalise on this new trend...
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Findlaters discover a 'new niche'
Suppliers of fine foods to delicatessens and Food Halls, Scottish-based Findlater’s Fine Foods were a first time exhibitor at Glee. Ailsa Jeffrey, Customer Service Manager, was especially excited to be awarded the Glee New Product award for catering and speciality food for their gluten free bread...
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Green Heart of Glee is a winner and Anglo Aquatics are Best in Show
Anglo Aquatics won the best display award in the Green Heart of Glee 2015...
See pictures of the Green Heart plant merchandising displays
Glee New Product Awards 2015 results
Nine ground-breaking new garden products were confirmed as the winners of the coveted Glee New Product Awards 2015, with Baksaver Barrows (above) winning the Glee Innovation Award...
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VegTrug unveils beautiful new planter
VegTrug, the original self-contained raised bed company, has launched its innovative new Barrel Planter.
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Green Digit win the second GIMA Innovator’s Seed Corn Fund
Green Digit are the 2015 GIMA Innovator’s Seed Corn Fund winners and collect a prize of £5,000. Launched in 2014 the GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund is designed to encourage new businesses, designers and innovators to enter the garden retail market.
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Glee Buyers Power List 2015 winners
The winners of the Glee Buyers Power List – the major new gardening buyer awards initiative introduced by Glee for the first time this year – were announced as Haskins (pictured), gardensite.co.uk, Blue Diamond, Homebase and John Lewis...
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Puppi Loo draws visitors to Greenacres Artificial Grass stand
Greenacres Artificial Grass exhibited the Puppi Loo pet training system at Glee and it created lots of interest...
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Pet Rebellion's car seat cover is a winner
Pet Rebellion returned to Glee this year after missing the show in 2014 and they were pleased with the response to their unique range of pet carpets, particularly the car seat cover...
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Bring back the joy of gardening with Gripeeze
For many, the pleasure & enjoyment gained from a day spent in the garden is denied due to the repetitive strain it can often bring, and for those with restricted movement it’s pretty much impossible. But now thanks to the Gripeeze Home & Garden Glove that need no longer be the case.
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It's time to Go Wild again says Peckish
Westland’s bird care brand Peckish will once again be aiming to give garden centres a major footfall boost this October half-term...
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Clever, functional and unique gift ideas from Forked Up Art
Visitors to the Forked Up Art stand were impressed with the company's range of clever, functional and unique gift ideas...
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Lows unveiled unique designs for classic pieces
Amongst the wealth of products on the Low’s stand were some products of which the team are justifiably proud...
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Kiln dried logs are a hit
The CPL Distribution stand saw a lot of interest from Glee visitors in their Kiln Dried Logs range...
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Fall in love with the new umbrella from Fallen Fruits
Garden giftware company, Fallen Fruits, whose themed, designer collections are inspired by nature, has unveiled a new uniquely designed umbrella...
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British-based Durstons goes from strength-to-strength
Somerset based Durston Garden Products continues to grow as the company returns from GLEE this year with even more new customers under its belt...
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