SOLEX is throwing open its doors on Tuesday 12 July 2022 for the first time in two years. Filled to the brim with leisure and outdoor manufacturers who literally have something for everyone.  

This unique and focussed event, organised by the industry for the industry, brings together all the leading manufacturers of garden products – furniture and accessories, barbecues, fire pits, leisure products, gifts, outdoor buildings, storage, lighting, spas, pergolas, hot tubs, parasols, and soft furnishings – and provides a showcase for all the exciting new developments in design, environmental manufacturing, sustainability, and production for both the retail and contract markets.

The most renowned suppliers in the UK can be found at SOLEX 22 which makes it the perfect place to connect with quality buyers.  It offers the newest and most inspirational garden products attracting visitors from multiple and independent garden centres, high street and department stores, online retailers, DIY stores and other industry professionals.

This relaxed and friendly exhibition is a great place to do business, so, whether you are a visitor or exhibitor, SOLEX 22 has everything you could possibly want or need. It is the perfect place to see new products, discuss new ideas and increase brand awareness.

We are really pleased to welcome some brand new and innovative brands to SOLEX 22 for the first time.  Look out for Broilking, Ginique, Kaemingk, Minster Stylish Living, Pit Boss, Que Fresco, Traeger Grills, Waspinator and Woodlodge each bringing their own unique style and products to SOLEX 22, plus established brands like Hartman, Kettler, Norfolk Leisure, Leisuregrow, Kamado Joe, Alfresco Brands and Firepits UK. 

You can find out more about who’s exhibiting on our SOLEX Exhibition website and register to visit SOLEX 22 using this link

SOLEX The Summer Outdoor Living Exhibition organised by the industry for the industry. 

Place - Halls 17, 18 & 19 | Venue - NEC | Dates - 12 - 14 July 2022

An essential and not to be missed experience to see what’s new and what’s on trend for the Spring / Summer Season 2023.

Registration for SOLEX 22 not only gives you access to the biggest three-day event in the Outdoor Living Trade calendar,  but also comes with the added benefit of the chance to win one of 5 fantastic summer living prizes donated by some of our exhibitors. 

Register today and you could win one of these great prizes:

•    A versatile Gas2coal 3 Burner barbecue from Char-Broil.
•    The Ozpig from Qué Fresco.
•    The Eze, Moasaic Tea for Two from Kaemingk.
•    A Höfats Spin, plus a box of Bioethanol Fuel from Ginique.
•    A new for 2022 Bean Bag from Extreme Lounging.

SOLEX The Summer Outdoor Living Exhibition organised by the industry for the industry. 

Place - Halls 17, 18 & 19 | Venue - NEC | Dates - 12 - 14 July 2022

An essential and not to be missed experience to see what’s new and what’s on trend for the Spring / Summer Season 2023.

SOLEX 22 will see the return of GTN's Greatest Outdoor Leisure Retailing Team Awards.

In the next few months GTN's team of expert judges will be visiting Garden Centres across the UK to view their in store outdoor leisure displays and meet the teams behind their sales success.

The awards for The Greatest BBQ Sales Teams and The Greatest Outdoor Furniture Sales Teams will be awarded at the show.

To make sure your successful sales teams are include in the judges visits send an e-mail today to: trevor@pottingshedpress.co.uk

Previous winners of GTN's Greatest Outdoor Leisure Team Awards have included:

The Greatest Outdoor Furniture Sales Team

Bronze Award – Poplars Garden Centre

Silver Award – Hillview Garden Centres

Gold Award – Silverbirch Garden Centre

The Greatest BBQ & Outdoor Furniture Sales Team

Bronze Award – Chessington Garden Centre

Silver Award – Blue Diamond Garden Centres

Gold Award – Hayes Garden World

The Greatest BBQ Sales Team

Small Centre Gold Award – Baytree at Hilgay

Large Centre Gold Award – Alton Garden Centre

The Greatest Outdoor Furniture Sales Team

Small Centre Gold Award – Baytree at Hilgay

Group Centres Gold Award – Blue Diamond

Large Centres Gold Award – Scotsdales

Large Centres Gold Award – Whitehall, Lacock

SOLEX The Summer Outdoor Living Exhibition organised by the industry for the industry. 

Place - Halls 17, 18 & 19 | Venue - NEC | Dates - 12 - 14 July 2022

An essential and not to be missed experience to see what’s new and what’s on trend for the Spring / Summer Season 2023.

Lifestyle Garden won the Best New Product Award for their DuraOcean range at SOLEX 2019.

The SOLEX Awards recognise and promote the outdoor leisure industry’s new and innovative product developments.

This year there are five categories and five prizes to be won!

• Best New BBQ Product
• Best New Furniture Product
• Best New Individual Product (for a product that falls outside the BBQ or Furniture remit)
• Best New Sustainable Product
• Best SOLEX Stand 2022

All new products will be judged by a group of industry professionals. 

Winners will be awarded advertising and marketing prizes in conjunction with the BBQ Mag and Garden Trade News. 

Up for grabs, £2k worth of Ads in GTN for the Furniture winner and £1k worth of ads in GTN for each of the winners of the Individual product Award and the Sustainability Product Award plus free advertising within the BBQ magazine for the winner of the best BBQ Product.  

These great prizes will allow winners to showcase their new products within the pages of these two great publications.

SOLEX The Summer Outdoor Living Exhibition organised by the industry for the industry. 

Place - Halls 17, 18 & 19 | Venue - NEC | Dates - 12 - 14 July 2022

An essential and not to be missed experience to see what’s new and what’s on trend for the Spring / Summer Season 2023.

This year SOLEX is partnering with some well-known brands including RSPB & Planet Mark to offset the carbon footprint of the exhibition and do our bit to help the environment.

Our plan is to make SOLEX a carbon neutral event, so with a little help from Planet Mark we will be asking visitors and exhibitors alike how they travelled to and from the show.

We will also be partnering with the RSPB; for every visitor that attends SOLEX 22, we will donate £5.  Each donation will plant a tree at RSPB Haweswater on the eastern edge of the Lake District National Park.

SOLEX The Summer Outdoor Living Exhibition organised by the industry for the industry. 

Place - Halls 17, 18 & 19 | Venue - NEC | Dates - 12 - 14 July 2022

An essential and not to be missed experience to see what’s new and what’s on trend for the Spring / Summer Season 2023.

This year SOLEX is partnering with some well-known brands including BBQ Magazine.

2022 sees the start of a beautiful friendship between SOLEX and the BBQ Magazine. 

This fire, food and outdoor living publication has the perfect synergy with SOLEX in that we are both industry led, we are both passionate about outdoor living and cooking outdoors.

Many of LOFA's BBQ members are already contributors and advertisers in this fantastic new magazine. 

The BBQ Magazine will be supporting our Loving Outdoor Living Zone which will feature BBQ brands Kamado Joe, Alfresco Chef, Traeger Grills, Char-Broil, and Landmann to name but a few. They will be showcasing their products in their natural environment and cooking up some tasty treats for visitors to sample during the show.

SOLEX The Summer Outdoor Living Exhibition organised by the industry for the industry. 

Place - Halls 17, 18 & 19 | Venue - NEC | Dates - 12 - 14 July 2022

An essential and not to be missed experience to see what’s new and what’s on trend for the Spring / Summer Season 2023.

LOFA are great supporters of Greenfingers, and this year we will be donating £10,000 to this wonderful charity.

Last year the LOFA donation helped a project at The Nook – a children’s hospice in Norfolk which was officially opened by HRH, the Duchess of Cambridge in 2019. The three-acre site is a holistic and therapeutic garden designed by RHS Chelsea Gold Medal Winner Ann-Marie Powell.

The funding from LOFA will go towards creating the infrastructure to reach this garden.  So, wheelchair accessible pathways, lighting and beautiful planting of shrubs and trees.

This year’s LOFA donation will be go towards a garden at Derian House, where garden designer Chris Foreshaw will be transforming a tired courtyard garden.

The garden is currently only accessed via the main hospice building and bedrooms; places where privacy is of the upmost importance.

Tackling this issue will be a key component of Chris’ design, where a mixture of interactive zones will be linked together by a central covered space. The design has also included elements of imaginative and subdued lighting and extra seating whilst maintaining the privacy of the gardens outside the bedrooms. The build at Derian House is set to get underway in autumn 2022. 

The cheque will be presented to Linda Petrons, Director of Fundraising & Communications, on the first day of the SOLEX show.

SOLEX The Summer Outdoor Living Exhibition organised by the industry for the industry. 

Place - Halls 17, 18 & 19 | Venue - NEC | Dates - 12 - 14 July 2022

An essential and not to be missed experience to see what’s new and what’s on trend for the Spring / Summer Season 2023.

SOLEX is back for 2022! SOLEX is the only outdoor living event in the 2022 calendar organised by the industry for the industry.

This unique event brings together all the leading manufacturers of garden products – furniture & accessories, barbecues, fire pits, leisure products, gifts, outdoor buildings, storage, lighting, play equipment, spas, pergolas, hot tubs, parasols, and soft furnishings – and provides a showcase for all the exciting new developments in design, environmental manufacturing, sustainability, and production for both the retail and contract markets.

LOFA, the driving force behind SOLEX, want to help the outdoor living industry get back to some semblance of normality after what has been a very turbulent time. We have faced many obstacles over the past two years including hikes in container pricing and storage and delivery issues. This year we have reduced the price of the space at the event for two reasons. One to help our members offset other costs they have had to bear in these difficult times, and two to encourage new members to join and exhibit at a great show for a great price.

For more details on how you can benefit from this great price offer contact gina@lofa.com

Apart from the great pricing we also offer a range of incentives to our exhibitors

• Free marketing which includes a full web profile, entry into the SOLEX show guide,
• The opportunity to share your news in the GTN SOLEX Sun as well as on the SOLEX Exhibition website and across our social media networks. 
• A chance to win £1000 marketing support and free PR & Social Media promotion in the new product awards.
• Outside BBQ area for those that want to light up and give visitors a taste of what their products can do.
• Partnering with the BBQ magazine, the fire, food, and outdoor living publication throughout the three-day event. 

SOLEX 22 is the perfect place for exhibitors to connect with quality buyers, it offers the newest and most inspirational garden products attracting visitors from multiple and independent garden centres, high street and department stores, online retailers, DIY stores and other industry professionals.

SOLEX 22 is a great place to do business, this relaxed and friendly exhibition is where you can establish new relationships and develop existing ones. So, whether you are a visitor or exhibitor SOLEX 22 has everything you could possibly want or need.

The Summer Outdoor Living Exhibition is the perfect place to launch new products, discuss new ideas and increase brand awareness.

SOLEX 22 is the retailers essential garden event of the year. 

For more details on how you can benefit from this great price offer contact gina@lofa.com

After the return of SOLEX at the NEC for 2022 was announced we asked retailers what they would be looking forward to most in July next year.

We asked Darren Craven from the British Garden Centre Group why he visits Solex: “To view the widest display of garden leisure products in the UK."

"What sets it apart from other gardening exhibitions is its focus on garden leisure, both seating and eating makes it a unique show in the UK, and for me as an outdoor leisure buyer it gives me the opportunity to review all the key suppliers in one go. Side by side you get the perfect overview of each range and the strengths of each."

"Having the show back is great news as I missed it, and the benefit it brings to our business, over the last 2 seasons”

Martin Davies, Director of Raglan Garden Company said: “Solex represents a very important part of our business, and I will definitely be attending Solex 22. My son and I had to travel to many different locations this Summer to view next year’s furniture ranges, so a show that can encompass all our needs under one roof is good for us."

"Solex provides a good opportunity to discuss successes and failures with our suppliers and peers, a show that has become an essential part of our business calendar and one that we will continue to support”.

And Adam Wigglesworth at Aylett Nurseries added: “Having visited Solex many times, we think it offers an excellent opportunity to view many Outdoor living suppliers in one place."

"It also makes It efficient for us as we can concentrate on that particular category without being out of our business for an extended period as can be the case at some of the larger shows that cross so many product ranges.”

For more details about SOLEX 22 contact gina@lofa.com

Register to visit SOLEX 22 using this link: https://www.solexexhibition.com/register-for-solex-2022-the-summer-outdoor-living-exhibition/

The Leisure and Outdoor Furniture Association is a pro-active organisation representing the very best brands within the UK gardening industry, all adhering to the LOFA Code of Practice. Established in 1967, our goal is to support and promote the commercial trading and industrial interests of our members.

BECOME A LOFA MEMBER

Apart from the chance to exhibit at SOLEX 22, LOFA offers a range of services and support to its members, its primary aim as a professional trade association is to work with its members to develop good working practices, a respect for the environment and to provide consumers with up-to-date information on lifestyle products for the garden.

LOFA's goal is to make every member feel supported, informed, and inspired.

For details on how you can benefit from being a LOFA member contact gina@lofa.com