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Innovators Zone
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The Innovators Zone helps you find never-before-seen products, all in one place. This dedicated area showcases innovative and cutting-edge products from entrepreneurs, inventors and small-scale manufacturers, all new to Glee.
Exhibitors in the Innovators Zone are looking to offer you something different. Don’t miss your chance to gain a tantalising preview into a potential hot new product for 2011. |
New Product Awards
| If you are looking for the next big thing in the market, then Glee New Products is the place to look. The New Products area displays the latest innovations just launched onto the market. Judged by independent industry experts, the awards bring a variety of high quality unique, ingenious and stylish products from each show sector into the spotlight. |  |
For more information on last year’s winners click here.
Garden Angels
Sponsored by Gardenforum.co.uk
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Glee's panel of Garden Angels will see pitches from eight newly launched products. Taking place in two, one hour sessions on Monday and Tuesday, the Garden Angels, made up of a panel of industry leaders, will give their thoughts and feedback on the pitches and advise the companies how best to get their product to market successfully. |
Glee Wonderwall
Sharing retail inspiration
| Launching on gleebirmingham.com in the lead up to the show, and then in The Hothouse during the show, the Wonderwall is the place to source practical retail inspiration. A place for retailers, buyers and sales reps to upload their photos of merchandising best practice, the Wonderwall will feature those examples of how best to maximise retail displays. |  |
‘Off the Shelf’
Product display the creative way
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Glee’s new ‘Off the Shelf’ feature draws on the show’s key theme of retail inspiration. Taking products that are notoriously difficult to merchandise, the Glee team will build a series of displays throughout the show to demonstrate how effective outside-the-box thinking can be. Alongside each creative display will be an example of the standard display for each product, helping to illustrate the difference some fresh thinking can make. |
The Hothouse
| Glee’s popular seminar theatre returns and is even more interactive than ever. A rich resource inspiration at Glee, The Hothouse will feature key industry figures such as international retail guru John Stanley and The Waterworks team. Addressing those issues that are affecting the industry today, seminar sessions confirmed so far include: The Garden Industry 2050 debate with John Stanley, as well as in-depth discussions on how to make events in garden centres successful and profitable, maximising the Grow-Your-Own opportunity and ‘Team Training in 30 minutes’. |  |
Added to this, The Hothouse will also play host to the Garden Retail Top 100 Garden Centre event. Debuting at the show last year, this event focuses on those garden centres that have excelled during 2009/2010. A panel debate will address the successes of those making waves, and will offer advice to other garden centres that are looking to repeat this success in 2011.
Monday 20 Sept: 09.00 - 18.00 
