Glee 2018 preview Glee Innovators Zone
Celebrating its ninth ‘birthday’ in 2018, the Glee Innovators Zone has already helped more than 250 companies break into the garden retail market. This special area is designed to help nurture valuable grass-roots product development and one-off design ideas, whilst also bridging the gap between market-ready new product launches from established companies and pre-commercial product ideas. Innovation will also be celebrated within
GIMA’s Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund (GISCF). Since its launch in 2014, the GISCF has already witnessed great success. All previous winners have gone on to enjoy great commercial success; going from new brands to established and growing suppliers within the garden retail market.
GIMA director Vicky Nuttall said: “The GISCF is designed to help start-up businesses take their product from concept to reality, and with a £6,000 grant up for grabs it is always a hotly contested part of our annual programme of activities. The calibre of entries in recent years has been of the highest quality, and this year is certainly no different.”
Buyers Power List
The Buyers Power List is designed to provide suppliers and retailers with a platform to recognise the individual buyers and buying teams who have gone above and beyond to
make a difference, and whose decisions are helping the garden retail industry to thrive. This year there will be six individual categories
- Best Independent Garden Centre, Best Multiple Garden Centre, Best DIY/Builder Merchant Buyer/Buying Team, Best Online Buyer/Buying Team and two new categories for 2018 - Best Supermarket/Department Store Buyer/Buying Team and Best High Street Garden Retailer Buyer/Buying Team. Votes are invited from across the industry, with everyone from heads of purchasing to suppliers eligible to vote.
GIMA Business Village
The GIMA Business Village – located in Hall 6 - is home to a great selection of up and coming companies exhibiting with the support of GIMA. Glee is also pleased to present the GIMA Business Lounge, an ideal place to take a break, arrange meetings and catch up with key suppliers. It is also home to the ‘Buyers Connect’ speed networking sessions which will see selected exhibitors meet with show visitors for 10-minute power-networking sessions.
International Buyers Centre International visitors will find the International Buyers Centre (IBC) in partnership with Gardenex a useful resource. Located in Hall 6, the IBC will be led by the team at Gardenex, who will be on hand to provide support and advice as well as translation services to international buyers and visitors. The International Buyers Centre will also be
home to a two-hour session of ‘Meet the International Buyer’, enabling UK suppliers to have short introductory meetings with a few selected international buyers.
• Glee 2018 takes place at the NEC, Birmingham, from Monday September 10 to Wednesday September 12 and opens between 9.00am and 6:00pm (Monday & Tuesday) and 4:00pm (Wednesday). To find out the latest news and to register for free entry, visit
www.gleebirmingham.com
With more exhibitors, Glee will occupy the larger footprint offered by Halls 6, 7, 8 and 19-20 at the NEC this year
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