The innovation of twelve companies and retailers from across the garden, pet and leisure industries has been recognised in the Glee Awards – with the VertiGarden vertical planting concept from KinderGarden Plants sweeping three awards, including the Special Award for product innovation.
In the Glee Awards, an expansion of the show’s highly respected Glee New Product awards, an expert panel of garden centre and retail managers, journalists and industry specialists deliberated across the eleven Glee New Product and four new Glee Retail award categories. Glee New Product award winners
GARDEN CARE INNOVATION
Winner Burgon & Ball – Home Allotment
Description Grow Your Own with style in small outdoor spaces including patios, terraces and balconies (RRP £5.95 – £29.95)
GARDEN MACHINERY INNOVATION
Winner Bosch Lawn & Garden – AXT 25TC Shredder
Description New shredder with unique turbine cutting system for shredding of greenery and branches. (RRP £339.99)
NURSERY INNOVATION
Winner John Woods Nursery – Mattock Autumn Rose Range
Description 60 varieties, colourfully packaged specifically for autumn. Planting is made easy with a combination of bio-degradable and recyclable packaging (RRP 10.99)
LANDSCAPE INNOVATION
Winner KinderGarden Plants – VertiGarden
Description A vertical planter system adding a new dimension to plant growth for the consumer and the professional (RRP £19.99)
with an environmental conscience.”
GREEN INNOVATION
Winner KinderGarden Plants – VertiGarden
Description A vertical planter system adding a new dimension to plant growth for the consumer and the professional (RRP £19.99)
GLEE SPECIAL AWARD
Winner KinderGarden Plants – VertiGarden
Description A vertical planter system adding a new dimension to plant growth for the consumer and the professional (RRP £19.99)
Glee show director, Dan Thurlow, praised exhibitors for the quality of this year’s entries. “It has certainly been a year of impressive innovation. The judges were keen to reiterate just how impressed they were with the entries, from the latest and greatest product innovation, to retail teams working together to create outstanding, long term initiatives that help them stand out from their competitors”.
A raffle held at the Glee Awards evening raised £2,220 for The Greenfingers Appeal, the charity of the gardening industry that creates inspirational gardens at UK Children’s Hospices.
Next year’s Glee will be held from 20 – 22 September 2009 at the NEC Birmingham.