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See you at Glee
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The GTN team are looking forward to seeing many of you at Glee this week.
We've processed 320 entries for the Glee New Product Showcase and Awards so the judges will be busy on Monday evening and then all day on Tuesday watching the Top 3 from the 13 categories pitch their products to the judges on The Stage with the winners being announced at 5:00pm on Tuesday evening.
Just before the New Product Award winners are announced we will be revealing the results of your voting for the Gee 50 Year Hero's. Do please join us as we celebrate the products and people that have made Glee such as success over the past 50 years. Tuesday 5:00pm at The Stage.
Throughout the show we will also be bringing you the Glee Daily News e-mail newsletter.
And then on Thursday we are looking forward to some more great FUNdraising for Greenfingers with Floral Thursday at Glee. Join hundreds of your industry colleagues as we raise funds for Greenfingers and look to break the world record for the most industry people in floral attire at Glee.
See you at the NEC!
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