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GTN August 2023 - Glee and SOLEX Reviews - Read on-line here
Fountasia launches over 1300 new products at this year’s NEC Autumn Fair!
Meadow View Stone become silver partners to support Greenfingers’ Silver Anniversary Appeal
GARDENA celebrates growth in the UK market
Shareholder reorganisation of group that owns Mr Fothergill’s
Top line-up of political and economic speakers for HTA conference
HTA launches grower contribution scheme for plant protection product authorisations
Glee’s £1,000 incentive winner to bring gardening to local schools
Squire’s Electrifies its Footprint
Get ahead of the game with some autumn garden magic from Primeur
Create opportunities in container gardening with Durstons
Henchman launches fully adjustable tripod ladder PRO range
Zest shows new 2024 collection and customer support package at FourOaks
PLANTARIUM|GROEN-Direkt proves itself as a novelties fair
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Boyd Douglas-Davies joins Glee as Strategic Advisor
GIMA launches 2025 Consumer and Design Insights+Trends Report
Sarah Raven appoints Dominic Rose as chair
Napoleon Grills sponsors he Big BBQ Cookout at CarFest 2023
The Independent endorsement continues bumper year for Cobra
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Choice Marketing Group welcomes five new members
Trials see new additions to Mr Fothergill's range
Glee 2023 Review: Future of garden retailing takes shape
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GTN August 2023 - Glee and SOLEX Reviews - Read on-line here

In this issue:

  • Short memories – GTN comment about the timing of trade shows.
  • Reflections from Glee 2023 – GTN’s review.
  • Germie, a new dawn for growing seeds – GIMA Seed Corn Funding.
  • Shaping the Future of Cutting - Glee’s Best New Product 2023.
  • Buyers Power List Awards at Glee.
  • Glee New Product Award Winners for 2023. 
  • Peckish back on TV after winning awards at Glee.
  • Flying high for Greenfingers.
  • Record breaking Flower Power at Glee.
  • AMES are branching out – GTN Interview with Nick Jones and Caroline Elliot.
  • Tramontina get in the mood winning at SOLEX.
  • Outdoor Living at its best - SOLEX 2023 Review.
  • Woodlodge unveil W Garden Living at SOLEX.
  • LifestyleGarden stack up awards at SOLEX.
  • Selling Smiles at Floral Fountasia – GTN Planteria Column.
  • Keep on gardening all summer long - HTA Column.
  • Innovation matters – GIMA Column.
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Fountasia launches over 1300 new products at this year’s NEC Autumn Fair!
Also LOWEST PRICES EVER on our best-selling classic items

Come and visit us - Stand 6A25 and 7F10
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Meadow View Stone become silver partners to support Greenfingers’ Silver Anniversary Appeal

With the Greenfingers Charity celebrating its 25th anniversary next year, it is pleased to gain even more support from the garden retail sector with Meadow View Stone confirming its silver partner status...
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GARDENA celebrates growth in the UK market

GARDENA is celebrating continued growth across the watering and hand tools categories, after a successful spring and summer season in the UK...
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Shareholder reorganisation of group that owns Mr Fothergill’s
 

New ownership structure is the platform for further growth and development at much-loved global brand. It also sees the departure of CEO Dave Carey, the son of one of the original founders, who is leaving the business.
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Top line-up of political and economic speakers for HTA conference

The Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP, Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Labour’s Shadow Defra Minister Daniel Zeichner MP have joined the line-up for the Horticultural Trades Association’s (HTA) annual conference on 5 October 2023 at the ICC in Birmingham...
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HTA launches grower contribution scheme for plant protection product authorisations

The Horticultural Trades Association has opened a call to growers to add to its support for Horticultural Crop Protection Ltd (HCP Ltd)...
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Glee’s £1,000 incentive winner to bring gardening to local schools

The second of Glee’s new-for-2023 registration incentives saw one lucky attendee win £1,000 to spend at the show. The lucky recipient was Sarah Daniel from Pengelly Garden Centre in Cornwall, who has used the prize fund to help local schools get into gardening...
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Squire’s Electrifies its Footprint

Squire’s Garden Centres has become one of the first garden retailers to introduce electric delivery vehicles to its fleet...
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Short Memories
GTN’s Trevor Pfeiffer comments on the discussions about the timing of trade shows

I’ve been attending Glee since 1988, when I became a junior publisher of Garden Trade News and every year there has always been chatter about the size of the show, the numbers and quality of the audience and often about the date of the show. However, this year I was struck by the volume of discussion and sometimes quite vitriolic comment about the timing of Glee...

 
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Get ahead of the game with some autumn garden magic from Primeur

The team at Primeur, the leading brand in recycled garden products, is on hand to help equip gardeners in autumn and prepare for winter.
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Create opportunities in container gardening with Durstons
 

Durstons have a range of great products to tap into this trend and encourage consumers who may be flexing their green thumbs for the first time...
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Henchman launches fully adjustable tripod ladder PRO range

Professional gardeners, landscapers and arborists alike can take their jobs to new heights with the launch of Henchman’s strongest and most versatile tripod ladders yet...
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Zest shows new 2024 collection and customer support package at FourOaks

Timber garden furniture, GYO and decorative structure specialist, Zest combines on trend lifestyle with sustainability in its 2024 collection which will be showcased at Four Oaks tradeshow.  It will also be giving an update on its latest package of customer support.
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PLANTARIUM|GROEN-Direkt proves itself as a novelties fair
68 candidates for the Green Retail Awards!

PLANTARIUM|GROEN-Direkt is the number-one fair at which all novelties in the garden plant sector are introduced. The fair organisers have registered an impressive total of 68 novel products submitted for the Green Retail Awards. There are also many new introductions among the 5000 sample batches presented at GROEN-Direkt’s sample fair.
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