In This Issue
The AMES Companies & the art of possible
Altico turn heads with their show stopping natural feature pieces
Evergreen Garden Care pushes peat-free
Positive customer response as Primeur brings to market two new garden bestsellers
Westland excels with four New Product Awards
Woodmansterne celebrated 70th anniversary
Meadow View Stone 'wow' customers at Glee
Glee was a fabulous show, says Zest
Glee 2023 hailed as highly successful show
Date set for Glee 2024: 25-27 June 2024
Connect @ Glee will be big development in 2024
Red Gorilla: Best kept secret
Protek celebrates 40 years
Robbie Toys' wide selection
Smart Garden drives growth
GO FERROUS unleashed
Innovative Hortiwool
Sipcam Home & Garden partner with Block Blitz
Creating harmony with nature in your own backyard 
Handy’s Autumn promotions
New initiative with modern and stylised display units
Charles Taylor Trading celebrate 10th anniversary
Keeping warm during winter
28th Glee appearance
Woodlodge’s ranges expand with new additions
RocketGro's new bagged products
Busy time for Eliza Tinsley and Greenman Garden Tools
First to market original design
Acana is the No1 Moth Control Brand
Hamac showcases new range
ECO-FLEX gloves made from recycled ocean plastic waste
EKJU assemble construction component range
Showcasing an exceptional doormat range
Fantastic for firewood fans
New underwear by HJ Hall
Nature Safe unveil seaweed based granular feed range
Get Crafty with PepPlay
Johnsons Lawn Seed improves site facilities with £3.5 million investment
Premier Range from Bulldog
Growing made easier
New Burgon & Ball at Glee
Oh So Precious pet products
Museums & Galleries: Proudly supporting garden centre growth
Heart of Eden at Glee 2023
British Garden Centres instal rapid EV charging facilities with Osprey Charging
Ivyline leads the way Outdoors for S/S 24
Top quality products from
Glee goes Floral Thursday for Greenfingers
Glee New Product Awards - Winners revealed
Glee New Product Awards shortlisted products
Glee Buyers Power List Winners Revealed
Hills Plants win Glee’s Green Heart Best Merchandising Display
Glee 2023 Show Guide available online
Winners of Glee Talent Store announced
Picture round-up from build-up day
Glee Daily News brings you all the latest Glee news
Get your copy of GTN Xtra
GIMA meet-the-buyers sessions in demand
Rising Stars hopeful do the rounds at Glee
Germie crowned 2023 GIMA Innovators Seed Corn Fund winners
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Glee 2023 hailed as highly successful show

 

Exhibitors and visitors agreed that the three-day Glee extravaganza at the NEC Birmingham had been a hugely successful event. As the exhibition closed on three busy days of activity, show director Matthew Mein spoke to GTN’s Trevor Pfeiffer and reflected on another memorable Glee.

 

“It's been an absolutely jam packed three days of so much good stuff going on. I’ll try and cover it off in this brief interview, but I'll probably miss bits out. Looking at the hall, we had over 400 exhibitors in this year with 183 new exhibitors at the show this year. There's been more for buyers to see in terms of newness, so that's going to really help the journey. I have met buyers that were here for three solid days walking the aisles because there was so much to get through.

 

“The other highlights for me were the Atrium and the not just the Green Heart and the benches there, but how we also built out the area with the Talent Store, having the outdoor plant area and houseplant pop up stores were great. Looking at the students that took part from the GCA members, that was a real highlight, how they've nurtured their projects along from January in the freezing cold to where we are now in extreme heat of build and fab effort from all.

 

“Talent Store should now be an intrinsic part of the event. It's about nurturing the next talent, giving them that opportunity to shine away from the store and take those learnings back in store after they've delivered something live at the show. You can see how proud each of those students were that took part in both stores on Tuesday.

 

“Then the other thing the other highlight was outside having the fire grill and chill space on the on the space outside the atrium. That created a real kind of theatre festival feeling. All the pizzas and steaks cooking outside, great smells, but great theatre out there as well. So that really added, I think for me to the whole depth of the show.

 

“I joined some of the New Product Awards sessions to look in and it was great fun looking at the, the passion that each of those suppliers had about their products. Probing questions back from the judges, but I think that really identified some brilliant winners across different businesses and new businesses which for me makes it the highlight of the show. 

 

“Visitors had lots of opportunity to find new products at Glee, not just in the new product area. We don't always get to see all the new products there, which can be frustrating at times, but actually the whole show just had thousands.  Thousands of new ideas that they could take back to their stores to sell to their customers. Seeing that is really rewarding. And some of the buyer feedback, people that, were here three days, but also just the ideas that they're getting and how they come away from Glee and how they think about their ranging, their planning post Glee. These next 4 to 8 weeks will be a really good opportunity to do that and start thinking about which suppliers they want to take forward in terms of their ordering for next year.”

 

Speaking of next year, Matthew closed with the dates for Glee 2024: “On the 25th to 27th of June. So that date line at the end of June. I think that's a really important thing, the quality of buyers that have come to the show over the last three days has been brilliant. So that's something that we want to develop going forward and continue the growth of attracting more and more buyers to that new timeline.”

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