GLEE 2002 New Product of The Year awarded to South African Company
Contact: Ken Lombard, Focus Features and Cascadia in Pretoria, 083-406-1677 or visit http://www.focusfeatures.co.za or http://www.superpumps.co.za
Isando, South Africa, October 2nd, 2002
GLEE 2002 is the UKs foremost gardening trade show held in September each year over a period of 3 days at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. The show attracts 1400 exhibitors across 8 show sectors and is visited by many thousands of british and international trade buyers.
At this years show held between September 15th and 18th Focus Features and Cascadia (Pty) Ltd was awarded the New Product Of The Year award in the water gardening category. The award was presented at the GLEE gala dinner held on September 16th by Professor David Bellamy, world famous botanist, and environmentalist. Professor Bellamy is also the author of some 43 books and presenter of around 400 television shows.
Focus Features is a 14 years old South African company specializing in the trade distribution of garden products. For the last 4 years in conjunction with its partner company Cascadia cc, based in Centurion, Pretoria, Focus has been promoting exports of 100% South African manufactured world class fiberglass garden features.
In the 4 years period important export sales have been made to major international water gardening companies in Germany, UK, USA and Australia. After initial success at GLEE 2001, Focus was exhibiting at GLEE 2002 on a much larger scale than previously in order to attract further international interest in its world class products.
Tony Roocroft and Ken Lombard along with three other colleagues represented Focus on their 50 sq metres stand at GLEE 2002.
Kens wife, Judy, designed the winning product The Cave Water Wall self contained water feature.
The new product award judges were quoted in the GLEE Daily News as saying that they were impressed by the innovative design , value for money, price and realistic appearance of the Cave Water Wall. They went on to say it looks and feels like the wall of a cave and is suitable for a conservatory feature or (against a wall or fence) as a garden pond background.
A new distributor in the UK was appointed at the show and further export sales growth is anticipated this year.