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Thank you to everyone who attended and exhibited at Glee 2012

Vitax unveiled new growing media range

Golden opportunity for change in 2013 says John Stanley

Flower Magic can grab 5% of market say Scotts

Henri Studio becomes a part of Kelkay

Fortune shines on Greased Lightning at Glee

Petface's new grooming products impress Shop Window judges

Committed to reinvent the gardening experience

Veg plant supplier promises shelf life revolution

Gro-Sure guarantees all round results

New Turfline brand targets lawn seed mass market

Bamboo gloves are the 'greenest' to date

Sankey and Ebert merge to create Fiskars superbrand

Because they're 'Worth' it...

M&M Timber pack a better trade deal

Niall O'Regan joins First Franchise

Textfibre is the new buzzword for Suntime

Chinese pots are a UK market ‘first’

New Forest range makes life easier

Haxnicks range licensed to Smart Solar

Forest Garden's new range to benefit charity

Napoleon kettle barbecue sports unique features

Top pick for Build Your Own Bird Feeder

Kneelo Ultra-Cushion Knee Pads set to be a bestseller

Brolly Trolley makes light work of parasol bases

Glee visitors loved Crazy Garden Pals

Mail order brand Marshalls launches retail range

Kaemingk impress with home products

Pet food company plans to return with bigger stand

London Seed Company launch windowsill herb garden

Mike hands on the editors baton

Spanish designed lighting at affordable prices

Westland deliver a 'revolution' in lawn care

£1 million plus sales for Gardman's water features

Allibert deal for Suntime

Garden centres still investing in the future

Giants a BIG success at Taylors Bulbs

Thank you for reading Glee Daily News

Roundup get tough on weeds

Sustainable new opportunity for garden centres

Gift lighting launches from Smart Solar

Specialist's Choice compost range launched by Durstons

Johnsons Lawn Seed continues support of Rugby for Heroes

Pond pixies and fairies light up Bermuda stand

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Globus provides retailers with additional profit opportunities

Hand protection experts Globus Ltd has added new additions to its range of Showa glove floor standing display stands for garden retailers..

UK launch of no-kink Smart Hose

Glee witnessed the UK launch of Smart Hose, an intelligent garden hose that expands in use and automatically retracts when not in use...

New expert garden tool range from Darlac

Garden tools specialist Darlac is helping retailers to increase sales with the launch of its new Expert range of garden tools...

Suttons promo raises £8,500 for Greenfingers

Suttons presented a massive £8,500 cheque to Greenfingers at Glee...

Pippa kickstarts Stewarts' schools campaign

Grow your own specialist and broadcaster Pippa Greenwood was at Glee to launch the Stewart Garden Schools campaign...

Glamorous launch for Briers ranges

Model Zoe James brought an extra touch of glamour to the Brierds stand at Glee to help promote their new products...

Lafarge use digital media to cement consumer interest

Digital technologies are helping to de-mystify the cement products category for users of Lafarge cement products and giving garden centres new opportunities to profit from it.

Full list of Shop Window bestsellers

Here is your comprehensive list of those products that made their home within the Shop Window...

Start planning Garden Re-Leaf Day 2013

The organisers of Garden Re-Leaf Day urged industry organisations to put next year’s date in the diary (Friday 8 March 2013) and start planning...

New pest control products from Nippon

Vitax continues to invest in its Nippon pet control range with the addition of a new line for 2013...

Tie Studio get into more garden centres

The Tie Studio are selling more of their products in garden centres so Glee has become an important exhibition for the growing company...

Innovators Zone success for Garden Audio

The Innovators Zone proved to be a very successful exercise for new exhibtors Garden Audio...

GroChar Fertiliser gets positive reaction

Making an appearance in the Shop Window helped GroChar Fertiliser create a lot of interest on the Carbon Gold stand...

Aluminium 'sister' for Veg Trug

An impressive new aluminium model has joined the bestselling Veg Trug range...

Stax showcase Ambassador range

Stax Trade Centres showcased its Ambassador range at Glee, including an impressive set of hand tools...

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Thank you to everyone who attended and exhibited at Glee 2012

Despite the difficult year, the garden industry has come together...

Vitax unveiled new growing media range

Vitax launched its new growing media range at Glee with a total of 17 exciting new products hitting the shelves this autumn...

Golden opportunity for change in 2013 says John Stanley

Retail guru John Stanley urged his Glee seminar audience to make 2013 a Gold Medal year for gardening as the pace of retail change accelerates...

Scotts Miracle-Gro's trade marketing manager Jane Hartley with the new Flower Magic merchandiser.

Flower Magic can grab 5% of market say Scotts

Scotts Miracle-Gro believe their newly-launched Flower Magic range of borders-in-a-bottle seed mixtures with coir and slow-release feed has the potential to take 5% of the UK seed market...

Henri Studio becomes a part of Kelkay

Kelkay has acquired the exclusive UK rights to the Henri Studio product range, which was exhibited on the company's stand...

Fortune shines on Greased Lightning at Glee

One of the biggest success stories of the show was Greased Lightning, who exhibited their Showroom Shine car cleaning product...

Veg plant supplier promises shelf life revolution

A new growing technique that dramatically increases the retail shelf life of young plants was unveiled at Glee by Gardeners Kitchen, leading suppliers of vegetable and herb plants to UK and Ireland garden centres.

Gro-Sure guarantees all round results

The Gro-Sure brand is set to take the gardening world by storm in 2013, so it is no surprise that the Chilli Kit is a Top Pick in the Shop Window...

Clare Hooley, ebertsankey's UK brand manager

Sankey and Ebert merge to create Fiskars superbrand

The Ebert and Sankey brands in the Fiskars group are to merge, creating a new super-brand servicing the pots, planters, conservation, irrigation and propagation categories...

New Turfline brand targets lawn seed mass market

Grass seed suppliers DLF Trifolium launched a new brand at Glee in a move targeting the mass market...

Bamboo gloves are the 'greenest' to date

Town & Country gave Glee visitors their first glimpse of the UK’s most sustainable gardening gloves to date...made of bamboo.

Petface's new grooming products impress Shop Window judges

Petface's new range of pet hygiene and grooming products impressed the Shop Window judges and were awarded by a 'Top Pick'...

Committed to reinvent the gardening experience

Fiskars took a giant leap forward in style and innovation at Glee with a cutting tool range called Quantum...

Westland deliver a 'revolution' in lawn care

One of the biggest attractions at Glee was the Westland stand where the company unveiled what it claims is the next generation of lawn spreader called 'Even-Flo'...

£1 million plus sales for Gardman's water features

Gardman has notched up sales of over a £1 million since the national launch of its new water feature category at last year’s Glee...

Allibert deal for Suntime

Suntime has announced that it has stuck up a deal to be the distributor of Allibert furniture in the UK...

Garden centres still investing in the future

Despite a year of tough trading conditions, garden centres are still investing in refurbs and new developments, say Glee exhibitors Pleydell Smithyman...

Giants a BIG success at Taylors Bulbs

Cor, what beauties! These giant fritillaria bulbs offered by Taylors have been a sell-out success in this year’s spring bulbs campaign...

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Roundup get tough on weeds

Leading weedkiller brand Roundup took over the entrance hall of this year’s exhibition to showcase its market leading range of products and update the trade on the success of its innovative Roundup Gel...

Sustainable new opportunity for garden centres

Bord na Mona UK has added a new category to its established portfolio of peat-free and peat-reduced composts and fertilisers with the launch of a winter fuels and ignition range under the Firemagic brand...

Gift lighting launches from Smart Solar

Solar garden product specialist Smart Solar is launching an exciting new range of gift lighting products at Glee...

Specialist's Choice compost range launched by Durstons

Durston Garden Products launched a new Specialist's Choice range of compost at Glee...

Johnsons Lawn Seed continues support of Rugby for Heroes

Johnsons Lawn Seed is continuing to show its support for the Rugby for Heroes charity with a donation from every sale of its General Purpose Lawn Seed going towards the organisation...

Pond pixies and fairies light up Bermuda stand

A real-life pixie and fairy are making visitors stop and take notice of the Bermuda stand...

Thanks for your feedback and comments

Here's a selection of feedback from visitors and exhibitors from Glee 2012...

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Because they're 'Worth' it...

Tony Dedman and Miles Glendenning shakje hands on the deal

Glee was the first trade show outing for the new Worth Gardening division of Garland Products, one of the garden industry’s longest-established suppliers...

M&M Timber pack a better trade deal

Midlands based M&M Timber Ltd, the manufacturer of machined round timber products for agricultural fencing and landscaping industries, has introduced a new delivery system to help its customers reduce their stock holdings.

Niall O'Regan joins First Franchise

First Franchise has employed retail concession specialist Niall O’Regan as it continues to expand and develop its successful garden centre concession business...

Textfibre is the new buzzword for Suntime

According to Suntime the latest innovation in gardern furniture is Textfibre, and the company showed how it has incorporated it into its new range at Glee...

Chinese pots are a UK market ‘first’

Nigel Guffogg

Anglo Eastern Trading have a new range of plastic Chinese planters and baskets, some hand-painted and others featuring a ‘glazed’ wipe-clean surface, believed to be a first in the UK market.

New Forest range makes life easier

Forest Garden launched a new ‘Accessible Gardening’ range at Glee...

Haxnicks range licensed to Smart Solar

Jonathan Stobart (left) and Damian Cardozo after signing the licensing deal.

The Haxnicks brand is to be distributed by solar-powered products specialists Smart Solar under an exclusive licensing deal announced at Glee...

Forest Garden's new range to benefit charity

Forest Garden will be donating 2.5% from the sale of every product in its new Accessible Gardening range to the disability charity Thrive...

Napoleon kettle barbecue sports unique features

Napoleon’s new Pro Kettle charcoal barbecue offers features the company are claming as ‘firsts’ in the category...

Top pick for Build Your Own Bird Feeder

Gift specialists Apples to Pears picked up a 'Top Pick' in Glee's Shop Window for their innovative 'Build Your Own Bird Feeder' product...

Kneelo Ultra-Cushion Knee Pads set to be a bestseller

Burgon & Ball designer Nicola Reed was "really excited" with her new Kneelo Ultra-Cushion Knee Pads receiving a 'Top Pick' in the Shop Window...

Brolly Trolley makes light work of parasol bases

The Brolly Trolley is a new product from South African that solves the problem of moving heavy parasol bases on hard surfaces...

Glee visitors loved Crazy Garden Pals

Visitors to the Vivid Arts stand showed tremendous interest in the company's range of garden ornaments, particularly the Crazy Garden Pals...

Mail order brand Marshalls launches retail range

Mail order seed brand Marshalls is launched a range containing 100 specilally selected vegetable and herb varieties through retailers...

Kaemingk impress with home products

Kaemingk, best-known as leading suppliers of Christmas products, have broadened further into the home and gift area, including these bean bag chairs...

Pet food company plans to return with bigger stand

Pet food company Barking Heads Meowing Heads have had great feedback from garden centre retailers at Glee and are planning a bigger stand next year...

London Seed Company launch windowsill herb garden

The London Seed Company's new windowsill herb garden created a lot of interest...

Mike hands on the editors baton

Glee 2012 was the 37th – and I have attended about 30 of them, the last 21 as editor of GTN...

Spanish designed lighting at affordable prices

Mantra, the internationally recognised manufacturer of Spanish designed lighting at affordable prices, exhibited their extensive range at Glee...

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