Greenshop Group

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 23 April 2008

A natural beauty: The Greenshop Group moves to its new building, designed by award-winning  eco architects Architype

On Wednesday 23^rd April 2008, the Greenshop Group welcomes guests to celebrate the launch of its new eco-building with the cutting of the ribbon by Jonathon Porritt CBE, Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission, board member of the South West of England Regional Development Agency, Wessex Water and Founder Director of Forum for the Future. Also in attendance at the launch is David Drew MP, who will be making a speech about the impact he feels the Greenshop Group has on local environmental retailing, plus its wider impact for best practice for other businesses around the UK. Roger Budgeon, owner/founder of the Greenshop, will also make a short speech about why the Greenshop has had a new building built, how the build process went and what has been learnt so far about this demonstration building which is designed to be as low-energy as possible, making the most of water, solar power and other natural resources.

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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 25 March 2008

Latest exhibitions for the Greenshop Group: come and see the Greenshop Group at the Homes for Good sustainable home & garden exhibition, Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset (Friday 28^th & Saturday 29^th March); the Homebuilding & Renovating Show, NEC, Birmingham (Thursday 10^th April to Sunday 13^th April), and at the Natural Product Show, Olympia, London (Sunday 13^th April & Monday 14^th April).

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Wood fired heating solution for the new Greenshop HQ

Roger Budgeon has this article published in Spring 08 edition of GreenBuilding Magazine. Reprinted here with permission from Green Building Press - www.newbuilder.co.uk

The Greenshop Group is a forward thinking and highly successful group of companies set up in the early 1990s to serve the fledgling green building products’ sector, as well as offering organic, local and natural products to the public. The group has recently opened its new super-insulated headquarters and a log burning heating system was chosen to provide sustainable, underfloor heating. Roger Budgeon, MD of the company, gives us early feedback ...

The microgeneration industry today welcomed new Government legislation which will slash planning red tape to make it easier for people to install microgeneration technology. From 6 April 2008 microgeneration technologies will become permitted development which means householders will be able to take up microgeneration, within sensible limits, without having to apply for planning permission.

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 22 January 2008

Bryan Roe, Paint Manager at the Greenshop, speaks at Ecobuild on Wednesday 27^th Feb at 12 noon: Accoya Theatre: Eco Interiors: design and materials

In the seminar that starts at 10.30am on Wednesday 27^th February, Bryan Roe, Paint Manager at the Greenshop and Pam Macdonald from the Natural Decorating Company will be speaking about using natural paints and finishes: an easy guide.

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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 22 January 2008

A natural beauty: The Greenshop Group moves to its new building, designed by award-winning eco architects Architype

Over the course of November and December 2007, the Greenshop Group moved into its new building designed by award-winning eco architects Architype. The Greenshop, which has been promoting and selling environmental products for over 20 years, has invested in the new building as a way of bringing together key staff from its five businesses - the Greenshop (supplying the UK's largest range of eco paints), Auro Paints, Consolar UK, Greenshop Solar and Rainharvesting Systems Ltd.

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